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Bucking the Clothesline Ban |
Yes, believe it or not, sometimes, because of neighborhood association guidelines, clotheslines are banned. A Wall Street Journal article from September 18, 2007, profiles the growing movement to buck such bans and looks at the cost of outlawing clotheslines.
As the article explains it:
“… [T]he rules are costly to the environment — and to consumers — clothesline advocates argue. Clothes dryers account for 6% of total electricity consumed by U.S. households, third behind refrigerators and lighting, according to the Residential Energy Consumption Survey by the federal Energy Information Administration. It costs the typical household $80 a year to run a standard electric dryer, according to a calculation by E Source Cos., in Boulder, Colo., which advises businesses on reducing energy consumption.”
Alexander Lee, founder of the clothesline advocacy group Project Laundry List in Concord, New Hampshire, says the clothesline movement is “an outgrowth of interest in what-can-I-do environmentalism.”
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 March 2008 09:43 )
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