Food for thought…

• Approximately 6% of a household’s electricity is used by dryers
• Dryers degrade clothes; dryer lint comes from our laundry!
• If you have no room for a clothesline, check your local hardware store for a nice drying rack.
• Laundry dried outdoors has a natural fragrance.
• Dryers add heat to our homes in summer, and to the environment all year. Does our planet really need more heat?
• Laundry dried indoors in winter helps to humidify the air in our homes.
• What about neighbourhoods that don’t allow the outdoor drying of laundry? There is a growing movement across North America to make such restrictive covenants illegal. Check the Project Laundry List link for current information on this movement.

Useful links

• An impressive American organization is Project Laundry List which is making airdrying laundry acceptable and desirable as a simple and effective way to save energy. They offer a lot of current information and ideas at:
  www.laundrylist.org
• A website that offers some indication of the cost of running a dryer:
  www.michaelbluejay.com/electricity/dryers.html
• Useful and clever tips on airdrying clothes without a clothes line:
  www.livingonadime.com/articles/hangclothes.htm
• The EnerGuide Appliance Directory contains listing of the average annual energy consumption and ratings of new clothes dryers:
  www.oee.nrcan.gc.ca/publications
• Energy savings tips from the Ontario Ministry of Environment:
  www.energy.gov.on.ca
• Warning regarding clothes dryers and house fires from the Government of Nova Scotia:
  www.gov.ns.ca
• This site provides environmentally sound ideas that are economical and help us live in a more sustainable way:
  www.greenfootsteps.com/laundry-tips.html
• A non-profit research and advocacy group based in Vancouver seeking to transform unsustainable consumption and production patterns locally, nationally and internationally:
  www.OneEarthWeb.org
• One Day is a City of Vancouver initiative that encourages residents to take small actions in their daily lives to use less energy at home and on the move; to help protect the climate; and to make Vancouver the cleanest, greenest, healthiest city in the world.
  www.vancouver.ca/oneday/takeAction/atHome/heating.htm