Summer Fun Ecotage

Environmental Action has ana national contest for suggesting tactics which can be used by "concerned citizens to stop corporations or institutions from polluting, exploiting or otherwise threatening the survival of the earth and its inhabitants."

Labeled the first "Ecotage Contest," its name is defined as the "branch of tactical biology that deals with the relationship between living organisms and their technology." The first place winner will be given a trip to Washington. D. C. to receive the "Golden Fox" award, named in honor of the fox of Kane County, Illinois who has been harassing polluters. His actions have included hanging on a railroad bridge a 60 foot banner that said, "We're involved-in killing Lake Michigan, U. S. Steel." He has also blocked industrial drainage systems, scaled off polluting smokestacks, and dumped the effluent of a corporation in the lobby of its headquarters.

Entries may range from simple ideas which embarrass corporations to more complex plans for stopping corporate irresponsibility. Tactics will be judged on creativity and feasibility by a panel of ecotage experts. The second place winner will receive an ecology library; ten third place winners will receive copies of two ecology handbooks.

Entries must be received by Environmental Action before September 1971; they must be typewritten, double spaced. The address is Ecotage, Room 731, 1346 Connecticut Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036.