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:

“The First Time I Every Saw Your Face” May Be the First Time You Hear About Ewan MacColl

California’s Gay Marriage Ban Overturned & 5 Ways To Take Action

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Nicole Hughes:

“Bottlemania” Book Takes Bottled Water Industry To Task

Arnold Tells Automakers To “Stop Whining” About Tougher California Emissions Standards

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Andy Kondrat:

Department of Energy Forecasts Large Increase In Wind Power Usage

Edward Norton & Gavin Newsom Speak To Congress About Environmental Building Practices

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Jon Popham:

Spencer Tunick Strips Hundreds Naked

Lichtenstein Sculptures At Fairchild Garden In Miami

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Giulia Rozzi:

Does Being Ethical Pay?

Is the Anti-Female Genial Mutilation Campaign Offensive?

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Gina Telaroli:

A Global Look At Media On Pangea Day

Everything Cinema: Brody Takes On the Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

Acclaimed writer Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbageland, takes the bottled water industry to task in her new book Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It. Royte examines our contemporary trash and water crises by looking at the culture and economy that have made bottled water a $60 billion dollar a year industry - despite the fact that our plastic waste is out of control.

Royte goes right to one source of the fad - Fryburg, Maine, where residents are battling the extraction of their spring water for bottling by Poland Spring.   She investigates not only the environmental consequences of billions of bottles of water being produced, but also looks at the state of tap water today, and the social impact of multinational corporations seeking the ever diminishing supplies of fresh water from tiny rural towns.

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