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

The Sea Level Rise Explorer is an online Interactive Map that shows users the respective heights above sea level for coastal areas throughout the world. The data on the map comes straight from the NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission which gathered the elevations of points across the entire globe during an eleven day mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2000. The map gives us a chilling reminder of the enormous dangers Global Warming and subsequent rising sea levels pose to our way of life. With so much of the Earth’s population residing in or near port cities at low elevations the urgent need to stem the tide is digitally illustrated the world over.

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