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:

Sudan Leader Charged with Genocide: What Are the Reactions? by Wendy Cohen

Inconvenient Truth of the Day: Al Gore Speaks on Climate Change by Joshua Tremblay

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Nicole Hughes:

“Farms in the Sky” a Solution to Global Food Crisis?

Wal-Mart Launches Eco-Bling Project

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Andy Kondrat:

NYC To Bring in 300 Hybrid Taxis Per Month

Coolio To Educate Students On Climate Change

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Jon Popham:

Pickens’ Plan for Energy Independence

On “Rent” Closing, the East Village, and Gentrification

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Gina Telaroli:

Batman Morals: Top 5 Lessons from the Capped Crusader’s Films

Emmy Nominations Kick “The Wire” to the Curb

The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Mother’s Day is this Sunday (don’t forget!), so be sure to take a look at some of the great posts we’ve put together in celebration of moms everywhere! Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Top 10 Mother’s Day E-Cards

Hillary Andrews Will Not Lick Bob Stokes’ Swizzle Stick

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas For Mothers Day

Peak Oil Strip Tease

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Andy Kondrat:

Tornado Devestated Town Rebuilds As Green Model Community

Radiohead Attempts An Eco-Friendly World Tour

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Jon Popham:

Nepalese Art Photography: Rubin Museum of Art

America’s First Wind-Powered City

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Giulia Rozzi:

Women For Women International Celebrates Mothers Day

Even More on the Kentucky Derby

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Gina Telaroli:

Video Blog: The Week In Social Action

The War Now Tomorrow and Forever

This Mother’s Day, change the life of a woman miles away by making a donation to Women for Women International. Women for Women International has empowered over 153,000 women survivors of war to move toward economic self-sufficiency with their year-long program of direct aid, rights education, job skills training and small business development. They have distributed $42 million in direct aid, microcredit loans, and other program services. Since 1993, Women for Women International has mobilized more than 125,000 women and men in 105 countries worldwide to reach out and support women survivors of war - one woman at a time. Check out this video featuring an uplifting story of Bobette and her mother Marie-Claire in Rwanda.

When you honor a special woman in your life by making a gracious Mother’s Day donation to Women for Women International, they’ll send a card to the woman of your choice, telling her that you made a generous gift in her honor. and give to http://www.womenforwomen.org/.

“Film Festival: Rwanda will be a feature-length documentary about a Rwandan Film Festival which brings films to remote villages and provides many Rwandans with their first opportunity to see a film. How does the festival reach these audiences? By projecting the films onto a giant inflatable screen. For ten days in March, By to remote villages and projects them onto an inflatable screen.

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The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s latest production is called I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda and speaks to the importance of telling stories and what it was like growing up in Rwanda during the genocide.

The story centers on a young woman named Juliette who survived the genocide and is now living in London. She has written a book and brings it to the Refugee Center to share it with the new writing teacher, a washed up poet and novelist. Upon their meeting the two find a connection in Juliette’s powerful story and gain from each other’s experience to help both of them move forward with their lives.

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