The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. We brought you some excellent top 10 lists this week on art, technology, director Errol Morris, and naughty celebs who should rethink their eco-lifestyles. Don’t forget to catch up with some of our other most popular articles of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

Bush’s War: PBS Frontline Brings the War to a Computer Near You

Inverted Areola, Asymmetrical Breasts, & the Miss Bimbo Game

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Nicole:

Where the Wild Things Are: Top 10 Art Blogs

Dark Water: Artist Explores Consequences of Three Gorges Dam Project

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Giulia:

A Pregnant Man?

Is the Lebron / Gisele Vogue Cover Racist?

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Gina:

Top 10 Technology Blogs

Errol Morris’ Top 10 Films

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Kerry:

Top 10 Celebrities Who Need a New Cause

Dead Bats Flying: Mysterious Fatal Illness Alarms Scientists

America suffers from a collective case of do-gooder deafness: we have a hard time hearing a message when it’s delivered by a dorky academic or an unattractive activist. We’re all ears, though, when celebrities speak out about their pet causes, or their pets, or whatever. So, in acknowledgement of the fact that I, as a mere blogger, can only hope to influence so many people, I’d like to enlist the aid of some of our most oogled and Googled celebrities to help America combat climate change and overconsumption:

1. Britney Spears: Britney’s evidently on the road to recovery after some much needed r “˜n’ r. Here are three more “r’s” I’d love to see Britney promote: reduce, reuse and recycle. Our landfills are overflowing with post-consumer crap and the oceans are clogged up with plastic; what better time for Britney to redefine white trash! Recommended reading/viewing: Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte; The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard.

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By Kerry TruemanDonald Trump, the uber-developer and author, most recently, of Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life, just got his ass kicked by a crew of conservationists and a fisherman who’ve blocked his plans to build “the world’s greatest golf course” on a stretch of Scottish sand dunes that are “rare and vulnerable,” according to the Guardian.Trump’s over-the-top proposal called for a resort, “two championship golf courses, a five-star hotel, a golf academy, nearly 1,000 holiday homes and 500 private houses,” to be built around “a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) containing sensitive sand dunes.”The deal had been expected to go through despite environmental concerns, but at the last minute, the Aberdeen council found itself deadlocked and the council’s chairman cast the deciding vote to kill the project.Trump, as crass in defeat as he is in victory, heaped scorn on the Scottish locals, saying “The members of the council’s infrastructure committee have chosen to protect a pile of sand.”Mickey Foote, a member of Sustainable Aberdeenshire, defended the council’s decision: “The council has been involved in a very lengthy and contentious debate over the economic benefits versus national heritage”¦they have chosen not to indulge an over-ambitious property developer.”And Michael Forbes, a salmon fisherman who became a local hero for refusing to sell his 23 acres despite astronomical offers from Trump, told the Guardian: “Hopefully, Trump has now got the message that we’re not a bunch of cabbages up here. We’ve managed fine without him up to now and we’ll get on just as well without him.”