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"Contributions to EA are not tax-deduct ible. However, many of our members make taxdeductible contributions to our sister organization, EAF, which provides information and technical assistance to individuals and groups working on pollution and energy issues at the state and local levels."

To join, to request information about, or to make contributions to Environmental Action, Inc. or the Environmental Action Foundation, write to EA, 1346 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 731, Washington, DC 20036.

GREENPEACE

Like Earth First!, Greenpeace deserves special admiration: Its volunteers actually lay their freedom and lives on the line in an ongoing effort both to protect the environment and to draw public attention to critical ecological issues.

Greenpeace goals include a worldwide halt to the commercial slaughter of whales, dolphins, and seals; an end to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the consequent generation of nuclear wastes; the protection of endangered species; the introduction and implementation of clean air regulations that will result in an end to acid rain; and an international ban on the dumping of hazardous wastes into the oceans.

On each of these issues (and many more), Greenpeace volunteers—operating with the financial and moral backing of Greenpeace members and supporters in the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and Canada—have made great progress. Greenpeace even has its own "eco-navy"—including everything from a fleet of inflatable rubber boats up to a converted minesweeper—which it deploys with skill and daring.

All donations to Greenpeace are tax-deductible, and donors will receive the Greenpeace Examiner (a quarterly newsmagazine), along with special information mailings and action alerts. There is no minimum donation required to qualify as a member.

This group of dedicated environmental workers most certainly lives up to its slogan, "Greenpeace puts itself on the line." (How would you like to have irate whalers fire rifles and harpoons over your head while you are in a rubber raft, trying to disrupt their activities?) Send your donations to Greenpeace USA, 2007 R St., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009.

NATIONAL PARKS ANDCONSERVATION ASSOCIATION

Since its establishment in 1919, the National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) has been both an advocate and con structive critic of the National Park System. (For example, in 1982 NPCA participated in a lawsuit that forced the NPS to remove from Mammoth Cave National Park a facility that was polluting the cave system.) We'll let NPCA Program Assistant Kathy Sferra take it from here:

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