A few vids to ease back into the work week - all dealing with the scourge of single-use plastic bags:
1) California State Assemblywoman Julia Brownley announcing (fairly) recent progress of her Bag Ban bill currently working thru the legislature (it’s a bit further along than when this vid was produced). Be on the look-out for favorably lit hot celebrities!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gS4YpSPEpI]
2) Actor Ed Norton and National Geographic team up for this Strange Day On Planet Earth anti-bag ditty. Oh man, this one reeeeally hits the spot - and who can argue with NatGeo? I mean, really.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIbNEqmCUo]
3) An Israeli PSA (I think it’s a PSA…?), reminding all Hebrew-speakers to bring their own reusable bags to the store. Plastic bag trash is just not kosher...it’s a dang fashla gadol! 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsIvTu3gM4]
4) House cats can be terrorized by single-use plastic bags (or maybe it’s the Don Henley music?)...good for them, their owner-friends have hands with fingers & opposable thumbs and can come to the rescue. Wild animals ain’t so lucky… :(
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYZnft3SI8]
5) Saving the BEST for last. With first-“person”[bag] narration by famed film maker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; The Wild Blue Yonder; etc!), this one laments the sad life of a single-use plastic bag. It’s a film by Ramin Bahrani called “PLASTIC BAG” made for Futurestates TV - take time to check them out. Live it up and go FULL SCREEN - and tell your friends about this one! [Note: this Futurestates full episode is 18+ minutes long…just so ya know.]
http://futurestates.tv/swf/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf
NOW - take time to roll down to the next blog-post here at The RAP Blog to sign the action alerts, contact your state senator(s) and help support Assemblywoman Brownley’s AB 1998 Bag Ban bill!! Thanks a heap.