Well, we finally missed one. After managing to post on Earth Day, Arbor Day, and even World Environment Day, it seems that World Ocean Day fell through the cracks this weekend. We are ashamed.

World Ocean Day, which to be fair is still an unofficial day (though I have no idea how the validity of something like Arbor Day is nationally or internationally accredited), passed us by yesterday, June 8. There was even a big party for the event of which ecorazzi got some pictures, with celebrities such as Ted Danson taking a break from drumming for R.E.M.’s tour for the occasion.

The day has been celebrated for 15 years, says Oceana, the ocean conservation organization that co-threw the party yesterday.

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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. In celebration of Earth Day 2008, we made ‘green’ the major theme on the TakePart blog this week - green documentaries and television programs, Earth Day quotes and action activities, as well as some great film reviews. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Top 10 Earth Day Videos From the Hub

Joanne Herring Invites You to “Charlie Wilson’s War” Screening Discussion - Free DVD!

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 10 Documentaries About the Environment

Top 10 Ways to Take Action On Earth Day 2008!

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Andy Kondrat:

Top 10 Quotes About the Environment

Disney Launches DisneyNature to Make Documentaries - I Freak Out

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Jon Popham:

B Corporation Takes the Guesswork Out of Going Green

Sea Level Rise Explorer

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Giulia Rozzi:

Oprah and My Mom Going Green

Green It. Mean It.

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Gina Telaroli:

Taking Part In the Blogsphere With “The Visitor” and “Standard Operating Procedure”

“The Soloist” Explores the Homeless and Mentally Ill With Grace and Music

You don’t want to celebrate Earth Day and yourself with a sex toy that is bad for the earth or bad for your body. Nicole blogged about great green sex accessories that let you spice up your sex life organically. But what if you don’t have that special someone to go green with? Luckily there are 10 great ways you can go green solo.

A wise woman named Cher Horowitz (from Clueless) once explained that she was still a virgin because “You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.” So be picky about your sex toys. Many sex toys contain phthalates, a plastic softener, which is so hazardous the European Union banned its use in children’s toys. Ironically, since phlatates have been linked to cancer and damaging sperm, we are putting things in our nether regions, that may be bad for our nether regions. Luckily, many sex toys stores, like Good Vibrations, are phasing phthalates-containing products. But until the war against phthalates is won, and until phthalates are stamped out around the world, you can use this top ten list of phthalate-free toys.

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While on the phone with my mom she very sweetly says to me in her thick, adorable Italian accent “I was watching Oprah and you know today’s the day for the earth? Oprah said all these ways to help.”

Yes, even my immigrant mom who I ignorantly assumed didn’t understand environmental issues is going green thanks to Ms. Winfrey (she does have a special magic, doesn’t she?) On her episode Going Green 101: What Your Family Can Do Today Oprah encouraged viewers to make small changes. Oprah said “in honor of our Earth, I love her, I’m asking all of you today to implement just one green idea to help the fight against global warming.”

and check out Oprah.com for lots of easy eco-friendly tips.

To celebrate Earth Day, The Disney Company is really raising the bar and announced today the creation of its own studio, Disneynature, to produce nature documentaries. I know. Super rad. Like, amazingly awesome. Basically, Disney was all like, “Oh, really, NBC, you’re doing a whole week of green programming? Isn’t that special. We’re launching a new studio. With movies and everything. Eat it.” From the press release:

The Walt Disney Studios is launching Disneynature, a prestigious new production banner that will literally go to the ends of the earth to produce major big screen nature documentaries, Studios Chairman Dick Cook announced.

Hell and yes. This is exciting stuff. And it gets even better.

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Celebrate Earth Day 2008 with these top 10 documentaries about the environment. The films below address a variety of ecological issues including climate change, vegetarianism, crude oil, industrial development and our oceans. When you’re properly inspired to green up your eco-behaviors and help preserve Mother Nature for future generations, and check out these top 10 ways to celebrate Earth Day!

1) An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. [climatecrisis.net]

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April 22nd is Earth Day! People are uniting around the globe on issues of climate change, wildlife preservation, water supplies, and more! It’s time to celebrate all the hard work you’ve done for the environment this year, and to make new goals to improve upon our environmental progress. These top 10 ways to take action will put you on the right path. Remember, everyday is Earth Day, and a new day to do something good for the planet. Let’s get started!

1) at the Arbor Day Foundation, and learn how to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. Planting trees is an excellent way to offset your own carbon footprint. Visit your nearest nursery, or even shop for trees on their website.

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What an exciting day - it’s Earth day and the TakePart blog is going to be filled with awesome green posts, I can’t wait. But for now, I’m posting a video below to do my part. It’s the trailer for a film called Manufactured Landscapes. It’s a different, stunning and all around great look into a man who makes a large statement about our Earth through his art. You can and go here for more information, but do it after you watch the trailer - it’s pretty amazing and says so much!

Earth Day should be every day, but until then, we’ll have to keep celebrating the holiday. What better way to spend some quality Earth Day time than by watching some great Earth Day videos. Luckily, The Hub, an interactive community for human rights, where you can upload videos, audio or photos, brought to you Witness, has some great environmental videos for you to watch.

So here are the top 5 Hub Earth Day Videos that let you celebrate Earth Day and

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In yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan puts forth a very good question pertaining to going green: “Why Bother?“  On the eve of Earth Day, the one day a year where everyone tries a little harder to be environmentally conscious, Pollan wants to know why we even try the other 364 days of the year, when,

I know full well that halfway around the world there lives my evil twin, some carbon-footprint doppelganger in Shanghai or Chongqing who has just bought his first car (Chinese car ownership is where ours was back in 1918), is eager to swallow every bite of meat I forswear and who’s positively itching to replace every last pound of CO2 I’m struggling no longer to emit.

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