Nicole Hughes
April 24, 2008 | 3:49 pm EST
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
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Giulia Rozzi:
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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
Space debris is turning our outer atmosphere into a trash-mosphere, says Treehugger, who recently reported on a startling article from the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about space junk cluttering up our cosmos. The ESA Space Debris Accumulation pic (seen here) shows the buildup of space trash around the earth from 1957 to 2000.
According to Walter Flury, the 10,000 articles of space trash cataloged at the end of 2003 are categorized as follows: 41% misc. fragments; 22% old spacecraft; 13% mission related objects, 7% operational spacecraft; and 7% rocket bodies. When you break it down, that’s 93% garbage and only 7% useful satellites circling the planet.
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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.