Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have forever changed the way people interact with one another online, but if you’re looking to put a little more “eco” in your “friendly,” check out these top 10 green social networking sites from Earth2Tech:

1) Carbonrally: Founder Jason Karas launched the site in mid-November and now has almost 2,000 active users and has had 20,000 visitors. Unlike a lot of the sites out there, Carbonrally doesn’t focus on raising or donating money or using carbon calculators, instead it uses the draw of being on a team to help members focus their efforts on challenges that reduce carbon emissions.

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Mother’s Day is this Sunday (don’t forget!), so be sure to take a look at some of the great posts we’ve put together in celebration of moms everywhere! Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Top 10 Mother’s Day E-Cards

Hillary Andrews Will Not Lick Bob Stokes’ Swizzle Stick

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas For Mothers Day

Peak Oil Strip Tease

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Andy Kondrat:

Tornado Devestated Town Rebuilds As Green Model Community

Radiohead Attempts An Eco-Friendly World Tour

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Jon Popham:

Nepalese Art Photography: Rubin Museum of Art

America’s First Wind-Powered City

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Giulia Rozzi:

Women For Women International Celebrates Mothers Day

Even More on the Kentucky Derby

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Gina Telaroli:

Video Blog: The Week In Social Action

The War Now Tomorrow and Forever

Happy (almost) Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day is a great time to show your mom you love her with an e-card. When you send the following e-cards, you’ll be supporting your mother and good causes without spending any money! What could be better? So here are the top 10 Mother’s Day e-cards. Send one, or send 10!

When you send an e-card from Care2.com you’re generating donations for great organizations!

1. Does your mom like Yael Naim? Is she a “new soul”? Then she’ll love Care2’s Yael Naim Happy Mother’s Day e-card.

2. Does your mom believe that “women working together can build a better world”? Then you better believe she’ll love this e-card from One Shared World

3. Is your mom into languages? Then send her this fun multilingual e-card, where she’ll learn how to say “mother” in languages ranging from Finnish to Arabic.

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Our second installation of the TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is here give you the very best of Katie, Nicole, Giulia, Gina and Kerry! More blogs means more to love this Valentine’s Day week, and more social action means a healthier and happier world for everyone. Check out our most popular posts of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

5 Ways to Take Action and Get Action On Valentine’s Day

Top 10 Guilt-Free Valentine’s Day Jewelry Gifts: Show Your Valentine You Have a Heart

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Nicole:

Kiva: Microlending to Change Lives

Top 10 New Releases to Inspire Social Change

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Giulia:

Alicia Keys Uses Grammys to Help Keep a Child Alive

V-Day Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary!

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Gina:

Top 10 Movie Characters That Make A Difference

Art As Politics In “The Silence Before Bach”

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Kerry:

Tap Project Gets Donations Flowing For Safe Global Water

Levon Helms’ “Dirt Farmer” Wins Grammy Gold

This Valentine’s Day, if you’re hoping to find that special someone who will “take actions” with you to make the world, and your love life, a better happier place, I have just the list for you. So here are the 5 best free on-line dating sites for finding that special someone to drink organic free trade hot cocoa with, to make a hemp necklace for, and to send action alerts to. Because, you know what they say: the personals is political.

1. Act For Love is a personals site where you can find the activist– and the cause– of your dreams. After you’re done searching through profiles, you can search through the action center where you will find things like “Less Pink, More Research” take action link, which urges Congress to pass the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act. Their motto, which I say after coming up with the title for this post, is “Take Action. Get Action.”

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is now here to give you the very best of Katie, Nicole, Giulia, Gina and Kerry! If you worry about missing your favorite bloggers’ posts as they push their way down the page each and every week - Never Fear! Check out our most popular posts of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

Woody Guthrie: This Grammy Is Your Grammy / This Grammy Is My Grammy

Rambo Fights for Burma’s Freedom + 5 Steps You Can Take To Help Burma In 5 Minutes

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Nicole:

“Yes We Can” Obama Music Video a Unique Celebrity Endorsement

Top 10 US Grant, Scholarship and Fellowship Awarding Foundations

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Giulia:

Ba-Da-Bling Commercials Pulled in New York

“Safe Sex or No Sex” Shirts Get Teens Suspended

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Gina:

10 Internet Videos Featuring Celebrities Advocating For A Cause

Close Up: An Introduction to Iranian Cinema and Cinematic Rainbows

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Kerry:

Sheryl Crow’s Apocalyptic Peak-Oil Song

Solar Powered Soldiers Wear Uniforms with Built-In Batteries

Thanks to Care2, a social network website that connect activists from around the world, you can donate to great causes without paying a cent. All you have to do is click on a mouse and you can make a difference. With each click, one of the advertisers on the care2.com website will make a donation towards your cause. (And don’t worry. These advertisers are eco/ human rights/ social justice friendly.) So and support these great causes! It’s easy, effortless, free, and helps the world! What could better?

1) To Stop Global Warming! Carbon, and other greenhouse gases, released into the air by power plants and cars contribute to global warming. Click here and you will be paying for the removal of one pound of CO2 from the atmosphere

2. for the rain forests, which create oxygen and and keep our ecology healthy and in balance. Click here to help the Nature Conservancy save square feet of this dwindling natural habitat!

3. to protect our seals! More than 319,000 harp seals will be clubbed or shot to death this year in Canada. Click here to support the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) TV campaign against this cruel and inhumane hunt.

4. to protect our oceans from pollution, protect whales, dolphins, turtles and otters from slaughter, protect the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and protect yourself from ingesting dangerous levels of mercury? Click here help Oceana save our oceans, our animals and ourselves.
5. for primates. Click here to save chimpanzees, gorillas, and other primates and to support the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife, Research, and Education