We’ve discussed that perhaps sometimes Harrison Ford goes a tad overboard on ways he raises environmental awareness, so it’s a little refreshing that this time around, his activism is taking the form of sitting in front of a camera and answering questions.

The website Big Think has a multi-part interview with Ford, asking questions that range from “Is Indiana Jones an environmental hero?” to “How has your love of nature informed your acting?” But the most interesting answer, I think, comes from the question, “Can we live green and also live well?” To that Ford answers, in fact, we have to live green to live well. As he continues, Ford hits on a very important point regarding our depletion of the earth’s resources

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Top 10 Ways Indiana Jones Saved the World : #4 (find 1, 2 and 3)

4) By helping us all realize that Knowledge is Power! in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The message of the latest Indy film is that knowledge is the most important thing there is - that learning can make life worth living! Woah, that’s pretty awesome. I can’t remember the last time a film (that wasn’t an after school special) had that message. Just thinking about learning gets me excited. I won’t go into more detail about how knowledge and the Crystal Skull actually work together in the film (in case you didn’t see it) but even with cheesy props. the message is pretty awesome.(find 1,2 and 3)

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Top 10 Ways Indiana Jones Saved the World : #3 (find #1 and #2 here)

3) Meeting Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood

OK, again this may not have “saved the world” but Marion Ravenwood is amazing, and I would argue the most amazing thing in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As many big blockbuster Hollywood pictures continue to degrade women and proliferate stereotypes, the latest Indiana Jones gave us a woman (an older one at that!) who didn’t put up with Indy’s crap and was tough enough to fight on her own most of the time. Her spirit lights up the screen and illustrates how women should be portrayed more often.

Here’s an interview with Allen:

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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. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Necklacing Returns to South Africa, Tutu Calls for Peace, and History Repeats Itself

Ted Kennedy’s Malignant Brain Tumor: Sad News, But the Work Goes On

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Nicole Hughes:

Bush’s Food Aid Package Promotes Use of GMOs

Gas Prices Exceed Those of 1973 Oil Crisis

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Andy Kondrat:

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Cost US 38 Trillion Annually

USDA Budget Squeeze Forces Agency to Stop Tracking Pesticide Use

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Jon Popham:

Brooklyn Bridge Birthday Celebration!

Smokey the Bear: Environmental Icon

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Giulia Rozzi:

Suicide Tourism in New York City

Kristin Davis and Her Solar Powered Home

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Gina Telaroli:

Media That Matters Film Festival Premieres on May 28th

Top 10 Ways Indiana Jones Saved the World: Part #1

It’s Indy mania! Stay tuned to the TakePart blog over the next week to see the Top 10 Ways Indiana Jones Saved the World and how you can be just like Indy and save it too! Each new entry will have action links that allow you to do what Indy did - in the comfort of your own home of course. For now, here’s are first entry:

1) Stopping Child Labor in The Temple of Doom:

When a town full of children are missing, Indiana Jones comes to the rescue. After crash landing in India, a small village claims that a valuable stone is missing (along with the children) and our amazing Jones gets down to business and in the process finds out the children aren’t really missing… They’re working in a mine!

Speaking of the mine - here’s a classic scene from the flick.

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You know how sometimes, you have so many things to say about something, you’re actually rendered speechless?  This is one of those times.   Because, you see, to highlight the “pain involved in deforestation,” Harrison Ford went ahead and had his chest waxed.   On Access Hollywood.   With a Spice Girl there to document.   Obviously.   The 65(!)-year old is a dedicated environmentalist, having worked with the group Conservation International for fifteen years.   His hope is that this action shocks people into thinking green.   Which I suppose is a totally logical leap in logic.

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