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them back down!” Yes, laundry does some-
times come off the line a bit stiff, and I don’t like scratchy underwear either. A quick spin in the dryer’s low energy air cycle softens them right back up again though. Rain can be an issue, but how hard is it really to keep an eye out for impend- ing downpours? And if you find hanging clothes on the line a hassle, I say, “Get over it!” It’s time spent outdoors, you should relish not resist it. But if you really feel the act of pin- ning clothes to the line is sim- ply too difficult to bear, check out the Cord-O-Clip automatic clothesline system reputed to increase the ease and speed of hanging laundry by 60 percent and taking it back down again by 90 percent. One of the somewhat sur-
prising hurdles to more wide- spread use of solar clothes dry- ers these days is actually the neighbors of those of us seek- ing to implement this energy- saving approach. According to Project Laundry List, an advo- cacy group promoting line-dry- ing, a majority of residential and homeowners associations (HOAs) restrict or ban clothes- lines. Calling them an eyesore and suggesting that they are detrimental to property values, HOA rules banning clotheslines
are pitting neighbor against neighbor. In an age where it’s cool to drive a Prius and, dare I say, hip to live in a strawbale house, you’d think the clothes- line would be a status symbol, something the Joneses them- selves would want to keep up with. Apparently not. The prob- lem has gotten so bad (or per- haps simply so ridiculous) that many states have now passed legislation prohibiting the pro- hibition of clotheslines. A group called Right 2 Dry ex-
presses its mission as being, “To promote line drying as a sym- bol of patriotism, intelligence, and environmental activism, rescuing it from the symbol of poverty and despair it seems to represent to many Americans today.” Indeed. Perhaps solar clothes drying is more than just something greenies should do and more than just something tightwads should do. Perhaps it’s something We the People should do. Be a patriot and help make the humble clothesline a welcome feature of the Ameri- can landscape once again. Jeff Feldman runs GreenPath Consulting, a green building con- sulting firm. Jeff and his wife, Kris- tin Alexander, live in a strawbale home in Berkeley County. You can reach Jeff at GreenPathConsult-
ing@gmail.com.
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