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!

TakePart Gang:

Chasing the DNC Flame by Fonda Berosini

TakePart at Slow Food Nation by Wendy Cohen

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Nicole Hughes:

State Fair Having Trouble Keeping It Green

TOMS Wrap Boot: Shoe Addicts Saving Lives

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Andy Kondrat:

Mexican Gov Spends $16M to Save Endangered Porpoise

Wilco Offers Section on Website for Carpooling to Shows

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Jon Popham:

Portland Gym Utilizes Human Energy

Angkor Wat Threatened by Tourism Boom

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Gina Telaroli:

10 Powerful Women Using Their Power for Good

10 A+ Worthy Movie and TV Teachers

The Onion has a fine list up of 26 awful tv/movie teachers. It’s full of some great guilty pleasure favs - like Mrs Tingle from the Katie Holmes flick Teaching Mrs Tingle, Vic Racine from My So Called Life and of course Principal Vernon from The Breakfast Club. And as fun as these are, there are some totally awesome teachers that have been on TV or in the movies - and I don’t mean just the uber cheesy Dangerous Minds or Mr. Holland’s Opus type.   I mean teachers that actually made the students on the show along with you as a viewer think.

Here’s 10 that I think are pretty great. Let me know if I missed one and be sure to takepart and learn how you can actually improve the quality of teachers in schools these days by getting involved with Teach for America.

1) Mr. Collins from The Wonder Years - I would have had this list up sooner but I somehow found the entire episode about Kevin and his great math teacher Mr. Collins. Needless to say I watched it and tears are still fresh on my cheeks.   I would write more, but you should probably just watch

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Actress Rachel McAdams, when not starring in The Notebook or Mean Girls (which I totally didn’t see, I swear, but didn’t it turn out to be pretty funny?), cares enough about the environment to co-found greenissexy.org, a website devoted to all things eco-conscious.   The site, which she began with friends Megan and Didi, covers a wide range of topics, urging readers to “think big” in response to environmental issues, while also addressing the little things you can do daily to curb some of those greenhouse gasses.

I liked this site quite a bit because the reader isn’t being hit over the head with what he or she MUST DO RIGHT NOW to save the earth, but instead is given a laid back, fun site to click through and learn a little bit.

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