Environmental Action: No Time To Waste

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Album Info

Release Date: 1971

Label: Continental Can Company, Inc.

Multimedia kit for teaching environmental awareness for Grades 3 and up, housed in a cardboard box container. There is no evidence the record was ever distributed without the kit.

The kit that is the basis for this submission is complete and accompanied by a letter on Continental Can Company stationery stating it is "the first distribution of 'Environmental Action: No Time To Waste'" and soliciting feedback from teachers "before an extensive nationwide distribution is undertaken next fall." So, this is essentially an Advance Promo.

Kit Contents:
-- 35mm color filmstrip titled "The Earth And Us".
-- 12" record in cardboard sleeve with audio soundtrack for the filmstrip on one side and 4 ecology-themed folk songs on the other side.
-- 12" x 12" 16-page color comic strip style Student Handbook titled "Ecokid vs Punk Polluter".
-- 12" x 12" 12-page Teacher's Manual.
-- Four decks of a rummy-type ecology-themed card game titled "Eco-Cycles".

There are at least three record label/sleeve varieties.
None of these three varieties has performer credits anywhere. Performer credits only appear in the Teacher's Manual that came in the kit.

TYPE 1 (Advance Promo shown here)
-- Record labels read: "Created by C. Richard Hatch Associates, Inc.
for Continental Can Company, Inc. 1971"
-- Record labels do not have songwriting/publishing credits.
-- Record Sleeve does not have song lyrics on the back.

TYPE 2 (See here.)
-- Record labels read: "Created by C. Richard Hatch Associates, Inc.
for Continental Can Company, Inc. 1971"
-- Record labels have songwriting/publishing credits.
-- Record Sleeve has song lyrics on back of sleeve.

TYPE 3 (See here.)
-- Record labels read: "Created by C. Richard Hatch Associates, Inc.
© 1971, The Creative Teacher, Inc."
-- Record labels have songwriting/publishing credits.
-- Record Sleeve has song lyrics on back of sleeve.