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

Ten years ago, the band Wilco teamed up with the musician Billy Bragg to record Mermaid Avenue, an album setting unused Woody Guthrie lyrics to music.  Though perhaps debatable (not actually up for debate), the best track to come off that album might be “California Stars.”  What’s that?  You’d like to see a video of it performed live by Wilco?  Well, sure thing!

What’s that you’re saying now?  You’d like to see Wilco live, based on how amazing that performance was?  Well, they don’t have too many tour dates coming up, but here they are.  Yet almost as exciting as all this is that Wilco now dedicates a portion of its website to connecting people that have and need rides to the show.

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Music festivals such as Lollapalooza in Chicago and the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco are doing their best to ensure that these behemoths of show are leaving the environment green after the music is done. Lollapalooza, scheduled for August 1-3, and Treasure Island, slated for September 20-21, both are touting their efforts concerning environmental awareness.

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If you haven’t seen Time Magazine’s Top 10 Live Performances yet, here’s your special Super Tuesday Treat - you all deserve it for getting out there and doing your civic duty. Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma” gave me goosebumps! View them all here, courtesy of YouTube. You can also by visiting Little Kids Rock to see what you can do to help bring free musical instruments and music instruction to public school children.

#1 - Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma”
Wales Millennium Center, March 27, 2007

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