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

Didja hear?  Didja didja?  It’s Compost Awareness Week 2008!  Yay!!!  Big news.  Big news.  The event is put on by The Composting Association and WRAP (for the life of me I can’t find what that acronym stands for), and was started in Canada and has reached the UK, but seems to not quite have permeated the American market yet.  BUT, that doesn’t mean composting isn’t way cool in the states.  Look no further than Julia Roberts for the veracity of that last statement.  She composts, and she was in that one way cool movie.

Other celebrities are on board for this Compost Awareness Week action, too.

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