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Project List uses words, images and advocacy to educate people about how simple lifestyle modifications, including air-drying one’s clothes, reduce our The Newsletter of dependence on environmentally and Autumn 2007 Volume 7, Issue 3 culturally costly energy sources. From My Clothesline to Yours by Kathy Siddons ByLines The act of drying on a •Place laundry basket and sunglasses, and/or a hat while line is definitely not for bag/basket in an hanging out clothes in the hot From My Clothesline to Yours 1 by Kathy Siddons dedicated couch potatoes. area away from actual summer sun. But, enjoy limited View the time spent hanging clothesline so that you must exposure for Vitamin D in the The Wash House 2 walk each time to fetch a new fall, winter, and early spring by Susannah Eanes clothes as an occasion for real physical exercise, utilizing garment and pins. Gradually which should decrease the The Clothesline Said So Much 5 clever ways to increase increase distance for more symptoms of Seasonal by Margaret K. Walker bending, reaching, lifting, and exercise. Affective Disorder (SAD). stretching of the body in •Shake out each piece of •During the winter, breathing addition to walking (nature’s laundry firmly before hanging outside “fresh” air regularly is best exercise!). with strong motion for more beneficial to those having to •Place laundry basket at physical movement, creating “a live with the windows closed In Every Issue ground level and bend from good snap.” because of cold climates. waist, working up to not to •Consider yourself blessed if •Stiffer line-dried towels

bending at the knee at all. the is down exfoliate the skin beautifully The  View from or up a set of stairs. just like a loofah sponge. ♦ the Basket  Letters-to-the- •Position actual clothesline(s) Editor  Clothes Clips  to hang just at a level that •Over time, gradually “overfill” Announcements  Calendar  requires you to stretch up on your laundry basket for heavier Special Advertising Reader/contributor Kathy Siddons your toes comfortably each weight-bearing exercise which may be reached by email at time to put a garment on the helps build stronger bones. [email protected] . line. Stretch both arms up •Don’t forget sunscreen, Featured Laundress simultaneously. Susan Taylor Bend, Oregon Beat the Heat, Wash in Cold, and Win an Eco-Friendly Home Office

Once you pledge to "Beat the ton for Be sure to tell your friends too Heat, Wash in Cold" and pass four out because these actions can really the word along, you could win of every add up: if every American a $1500 eco-friendly home five loads household makes the switch to office or one of 27 other great of laun- cold water for four out of five prizes. dry you loads, together we'll save $6.7 Susan, featured in a September can cut 72 pounds of CO2 BILLION per year and keep Take the pledge at http:// Wall Street Journal article, is our emissions this month alone? nearly 50 tons of carbon out of c3.newdream.org official spokesperson and a Keep it up for a year and you’ll the atmosphere – the equiva- tireless advocate for the Right Did you know that simply by save more than $60 in energy lent of removing 10 million to Dry. pushing the "cold/cold" but- costs too! cars from the road! ♦ P a ge 2 Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3

The event in Concord on Nov. 3, just a week after I Concord, NH- The presented an improved version of "Laundry: An Washboard excitement of having Inconvenient Chore?" at the Going Green New the Wall Street Journal England Energy & Living Expo (October 27). I say we had started a also gave the presentation at Maine's Common Ground Fair, where several thousand people BOARD OF ADVISORS movement on the front page of their saw our incredible new booth. This was only a

September 18 edition week after some of our partners from the Helen Caldicott, M.D. has garnered a lot of www.savetherupert.org coalition joined us in Matcham, Australia erecting a 400-foot clothesline across from Hy- Sabra Field attention. More to the point, we have re- dro-Quebec headquarters in Montreal, Quebec. South Royalton, VT Alexander Lee Barbara James ceived dozens of testi- Along with the attention from Korean TV, Ger- Exeter, NH Executive Director monials about people man TV, NPR, the BBC, the CBC, and nearly Bill McKibben changing their pat- every radio station and publication in Oregon, Watertown, MA terns as a result of our educational programs. the blogosphere has resounded with laundry David T. Suzuki, Ph.D. There are more clotheslines because of our information. We have several new volunteers Vancouver, BC work. helping us with the Clothes Peg (our blog's offi-

In September, the mayor of Poughkeepsie, NY, cial name) and with development of a set of BOARD OF DIRECTORS broke a tie of her city council and restricted cross-curricular activities aimed at pupils and clotheslines to backyards only. Poughkeepsie is students of all ages. Nancy Brockway a relatively poor community where many people Perhaps, the most exciting development of the Roslindale, MA don't have backyards and the residents could last couple months is the forging of a partner- Jim Higgins certainly stand to save $100/year or more by ship with Real Green Goods, a Concord, NH- Lincoln, VT using a clothesline. We responded with an ac- based business that has agreed to share profits Senator Dick McCormack tion alert that caused one Italian-American on all laundry items that they sell through their Bethel, VT member of ours to write the letter that you find store. They only deal with socially responsible James Thaxton, Secretary South Royalton, VT on page 7. companies that deal in green, fair trade goods, J. Bryan Wentzell, Chair Right to Dry legislation is a fist, where what is which make them a perfect partner for us. Portland, ME needed is a glove. We need a change in attitudes Among the more creative initiatives that we ______and a voluntary shift of communities wishing to have undertaken recently is trying to encourage conserve energy and be more green. That is why socially-progressive textile manufacturers and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR two days after a conference call that we con- retailers to label their clothes as cold-water wash Alexander Lee vened with the Community Association Insti- and line dry only. The opportunities are endless, Concord, NH tute, we had a Right to Dry leadership summit but we cannot do all of this work without your to discuss our strategy. In attendance were Rep. help. Thank you for your support. EDITOR Suzanne Harvey, the bill sponsor in New Susannah B. Smith Hampshire; Tina Rasnow, a California attorney, Sumter, SC author of a resolution to change the California Walk in balance, Civil Code; Nick Sabelli, of Cord-o-Clip; and COPY EDITOR Poppy Madden of Fort Lauderdale fame, Stephanie Bridges-Bledsoe among others. Asheville, NC Project Laundry List had another Step It Up

Volume 7, Issue 3. Hanging Out , the newsletter of Project Laundry List, is published quarterly. It is available for download from our website, www.laundrylist.org, and distributed to friends of Project Laundry List. In order to receive the newsletter by mail, please send $20 and address changes to 27 Holly Street, Suite A, Concord, NH, 03301. The observations and opinions expressed in Hanging Out are those of their respective authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official views of Project Laundry List. Copyright © 2007 by Project Laundry List. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, all submitted artwork and pho- tographs are copyrighted by the artist. Project Laundry List is a 501 (c) (3) organization. Tax-deductible contributions can be made to “Project Laundry List.” Send your contribution to 27 Holly Street, Suite A, Concord, NH 03301. Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3 P a ge 3

Susannah Eanes, Editor

show at the Piedmont Arts next month. Interviewing Association Museum in my Roanoke, Virginia artist hometown of Martinsville, Leighann Boone was a spe- Virginia. There among myriad cial treat. heart-stopping submissions in These past few weeks have all types of media displayed in been especially industrious three upstairs galleries, I spied for the staff at Project Laun- a warmly familiar scene de- dry List. With increased picted in watercolor, and knew exposure to our causes I had to have it immediately. comes a heightened sense of Perched upon a high rocky responsibility as well as mountain crag, a small white more opportunities to re- Sumter, SC- As the summer farmhouse stood out starkly spond to the questions, ends and the days grow crisp in against the deep grey sky build- comments, and submissions an enduring march toward fall, ing up with the thunderhead of to our website and newslet- I find myself spending more ter. You, our readers, will days outside, appreciating the reap the benefits as you read blissful feel of gentle breezes articles by your fellow read- on my skin. At the same time, ers, enjoy art and photogra- my calendar fills up with doc- phy submitted both by pro- tor appointments, school fessionals and talented ama- events, volunteer gigs, and teurs, and hear of upcoming work deadlines. Fall for me, events and media exposure. like many of you, is my busiest Artwork by Lara D. Blair We hope you will respond season. During this time the an impending storm. Behind in kind, and keep us current task of hanging out the daily the house fluttered the wash with your thoughts and laundry becomes an opportu- line, sheets and garments ideas. nity for meditation, even more catching the increasing breeze Peace and blessings, so than during the more re- like butterflies tossed skyward. laxed vacation months. The title of the painting is Susannah Eanes Among other things, this past “Rinse Cycle,” and it will be summer I patronized an art the featured piece of artwork

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Chake Higgison lives in Maine and recently helped us with our table at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, ME. We depend on the generosity and support of people like Chake. K.Chake Higgison by Painting Art contributed by Chake K. Higgison P a ge 4 Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3

Letters-to-the-Editor sight. This approach might for a short time prior to hang- Laundry Lines somewhat lesson the rigid ing outside. The clothes smell HOA argument about great and often dry faster than “unsightly" (permanently- using the dryer. Lack of Understanding installed) lines. I notice that I grew up in Livingston, NJ in someone recently placed an ad the 1950-60s. My mother did- Ms. Taylor, in her article in the for the "Stewi" clotheslines n't have a dryer until the early Wall Street Journal, has indeed under the name Stenic Prod- 1970s. We hung the clothes broken the regulations of the ucts. The clothesline we out in the good weather and subdivision in which she lives, brought with us is still going dried the clothes in the cellar in but I am shocked at her the norm. strong after 12 years of use. the winter. We survived wear- neighbors' reaction to her This might help justify the - ing stiff clothes and ironed I'm from England. And in hanging out her laundry. what I consider very high - almost everything. I am glad I England--and I suspect most I don't understand why they price. We also have two small can now hang things again of the rest of the world--on think hanging out laundry re- collapsible drying racks in the outside. People who live in dry days everyone pegs out duces property values! I cer- house for occasional use. developments with homeown- their washing. On rainy days tainly could not live anywhere Also, on the subject of saving ers' associations should have the laundry dries indoors, on where hanging out laundry was energy and water, we bought the by-laws, rules or regula- racks or on radiators if the banned. (invested) in an Asko washing tions changed so that people heating is on. There isn't a lot of space in England but we I have always associated the act machine when we moved here. can hang out their laundry. really don't mind seeing of hanging out laundry as Although also expensive, it has Forget perfectly manicured clothes hanging out--it's re- bringing a sense of community. surely saved us a lot on water properties, people all over the garded as totally normal and and some on power. The ma- world hang out their laun- For example, when I was inoffensive. Gardens are chine uses around 17 gallons of dry. Why should Americans be growing up, cloth diapers on a smaller, houses are generally water per load versus some of exempt from being environ- washing line signaled a new- small. But hardly anyone the water hogs that use around mentally correct? It should born in a household and thinks of getting a dryer. It's 45 gallons per load. A nice be the privilege and duty of neighbors were only too happy just not done--we're a fairly thing to have here in Arizona every person living in to help a young mother. thrifty lot and always looking where water is becoming ever the United States of America for ways in which to reduce My clothes pins salute you! so precious. to be able to hang out their our electricity bills. Margaret Tong Dave Long laundry. We're a busy country--we Albany, CA Fountain Hills, AZ Jessie J. Bourke work long hours. But everyone Prescott, AZ knows you can hang out laun- I Love My “Stewi” Change the Bylaws dry quite quickly, with a few pegs in your mouth. Or slowly, I just read an article in today's This past June I had the ce- C’mon, America! while chatting to a friend in Arizona Republic about hang- ment poured, it cured, and I When I first came to this coun- the garden or listening to the ing clothes out to dry (here in put up my clothesline, which I try in 1999 I was staying with radio. It's just something we all Arizona). What a novel idea! had purchased in late winter. I friends in Chicago. It was the do. My friends in the UK are hated using the gas dryer in When my wife and I moved summertime. I did some laun- all busy professionals-- Prescott, AZ, which is mile back to the States from a long dry and naturally went looking teachers, lawyers, academics-- high and dry ten months of the tenure in Switzerland 12 years for the washing line. My hosts most have children. Yet they year. So as not to offend my ago, there was one brand new looked puzzled and directed all peg out their laundry-- neighbors, I had plenty of item we just had to bring with me to their huge dryer in their outdoors or indoors. The only room and was able to put it us ... and that was a (Swiss basement. Outside the sun was person I know in the UK who under my back deck. I also "Stewi") clothesline! Leave it shining. I felt a little twang of has a dryer has three year old told my next door neighbors up to the ingenuity of the irritation. Didn't they know twins and a soccer playing five they could use it whenever they Swiss to create a solid and very about global warming? But I year old. But even she mainly wanted. I bring the dog out practical clothesline. When not held my tongue and tried to hangs out her laundry, using with me while hanging up and in use (i.e. most of the time), overlook what seemed to me at the dryer only when necessary. taking down the clothes. I put the "Stewi" can easily be col- the time an oddity. The longer the damp clothes in the dryer In Chicago I noticed that in lapsed together much like an I stayed on in the states the under the fluff (no heat) cycle (Continued on page 5) umbrella and put away out of more I came to realize this is Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3 P a ge 5

Ontario Mayor and Students on the Line

Aurora, ON- Pictured here are He asked for more information and a T- Aurora Mayor Phyllis Morris, shirt. Mrs. Morris packaged up a T-shirt former United States vice- and marked it to attention of Mr. Gore. president and Oscar-winning Students at the nearby University of Toronto, documentary writer for An including Nalin Sahni, are helping the mayor to Inconvenient Truth Al Gore. change the provincial laws. This is Nalin’s report: While attending a dinner in We request a review of O. Reg. 73/94 to Toronto recently, the mayor determine whether the Energy Conserva- told Mr. Gore about her Right tion Leadership Act, 2006 should be added to Dry campaign. Many subdi- to the list of Acts prescribed under Part IV vision agreements across (Applications for Review, s. 61) of the En- North America forbid the vironmental Bill of Rights (EBR). practice, which critics say goes against environmental pro- We assert that the Energy Conservation gress. Leadership Act ought to be subject to ap- “Are you telling me people are plications for review given the important not allowed to hang their laun- role this law plays in the province’s energy dry outside in Canada?” Mr. conservation effort, which is itself integral Gore asked the mayor. (Continued on page 7)

mother of a three year old and started to disappear in the More Letters-to-the-Editor though I work freelance and States. Is it a class marker, a can control my hours, I work sign of being somehow (Continued from page 4) shine. It takes about 20 min- quite a lot of hours. But I just "straight off the boat" and not utes for a full wash to dry--by find it impossible to resort to properly American? Or are certain neighborhoods-- which I mean the clothes that using the dryer except at times Americans just so convenience Ukrainian, Polish and His- belong to me, my partner and of acute pressure or when the driven and so crazy about sav- panic-- people still strung out my child. weather is really wet. ing time that they would rather their laundry--often in the win- I actually started asking around My line is on the deck outside, pay higher electricity bills? Or dows of their apartments. about clotheslines, in my local strung under the roof so the are they simply more fastidi- When I moved to Austin, TX, neighborhood association. The clothes don't fade or get ous about their clothes? I have I never saw any laundry any- responses I got were mixed. To pooped on. my own pet theories but I where except sometimes in some it seemed like a quaint eagerly await your article in It depresses me, as we read poorer Hispanic neighbor- thing to do, something their order to read more views on about global warming, that I hoods. I lived in a neighbor- grandparents did. To others it the subject. I enjoyed the know no one who hangs out hood where steel T-shaped probably seemed like a slightly article in the New York Times their washing. There's the odd washing line poles stood in hippie-ish thing to do. Many back in April and I personally old person in the neighbor- back yards like relics of a by- replies were dismissive, even believe that in the age of re- hood and the odd environmen- gone age. No one used them. irritated. Didn't I realize that ducing our carbon footprints talist. There's no law against it All these hours and hours of insects would get on my the humble clothesline really where I live but it just doesn't sunshine and no one hangs out clothes, birds would poop on ought to be making a come- occur to anyone to do it. I long their clothes. It strikes me as so them, etc., etc.? Clothes fade in back. for some kind of national pub- ironic, when Austinites seem the sun. "Oh," I replied, as licity campaign to make it hip Joanna Rabiger so interested in green issues politely as I could. "You don't or fashionable or worthy, like Austin, TX and solar power, and when have to put your line under a putting out your recycling. people are at last installing tree and I've never noticed any energy saving appliances, that of my clothes fading." I would love to hear from a nobody thinks of drying their cultural historian about when For most people it seemed to clothes in all that glorious sun- hanging out your laundry be a question of time. I'm the P a ge 6 Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3

The Wash House Clothes Clips by Susannah Eanes District, the A common fixture on southern Borough’s plantations from the days when history is daily activities were carried out entwined in many separate buildings or with our “dependencies,” each having country’s in its own purpose and staff, was varied ways. the wash house. Usually lo- It has the cated near a water source such largest collec- as a pump or well, these small, tion of pise de terre Clothesline: Solar Device or Eyesore? utilitarian structures served a on NHPR (Nov. 1, 2007). dual purpose. They housed the (rammed earth) structures in the Ameri- Our energy future — hanging on the vats and equipment needed to boiling laundry. line in The Commons (November 2007). clean the household linens and cas, but still serves as a prime The structure itself is situated Clothesline wars: the solar dryer in garments worn by servants and example of a typical of a on a small knoll shaded by tall faircompanies.com (October 29, family alike. In addition, on Southern antebellum planta- trees near the outdoor chicken 2007). parallel lines strung back and tion. Plans are ongoing to coop and garden areas. It was Old clothesline is still hanging tough forth like a cat’s cradle, they ensure that the Borough prop- customary to cluster structures in The Denver Post (Oct. 28, 2007). provided a sheltered place to erty and structures remain the according to their common USA: Schmutzige Wäsche, Weltspiegel hang the clean laundry in order historic and environmental uses and needs, and the avail- (Oct. 7, 2007). to dry out of the threat of treasure that it has been for ability of collected rainwater Clotheslines movement gains energy weather, dust, and even the over two centuries. from a nearby cistern would on AP Wire (Oct. 9. 2007). occasional of bird drop- The Wash House stands next have been useful in performing You Can Do Anything You Want pings. to an external kitchen that was duties associated with each of Here on Voice of America - USA constructed of pise de terre in (Sept. 27, 2007). One such structure still stands these. at the Borough Plantation, a the first quarter of the nine- Bend clothesline clash claims global It is educational and inspiring attention on KTVZ (Sept. 25). privately owned National His- teenth century. to study windows on the past toric Register Landmark Prop- Originally, this wooden struc- Wind vs. Water in Giant Dam Dis- such as the Borough’s Wash pute on Inter Press Service (Sept. 19, erty located in Sumter County, ture is believed to have been House and see that sometimes 2007). South Carolina. The Borough, attached to the Main House, old ways are quite useful and The Right to Dry in the Wall Street as it is known, was and is the and served as a small kitchen. adaptable to the challenges we Journal (Sept. 18, 2007). residence of the Anderson Photographic evidence is being still confront today. For in- Rupert dam foes dial up pressure on family, whose members include compared to architectural and stance, in areas where local Hydro in The Gazette (Sept. 15, 2007). Civil War generals, skilled phy- archaeological records to deter- codes and covenants prevent sicians, famous aviators, tal- mine the exact purpose and the erection and use of out- ented writers and artists. The role of this small, simple build- door laundry lines, a small, plantation includes the Main ing, that consists of one large attractive structure such as this residence, originally built in the room, a small closet, and a side might easily accommodate not eighteenth century and serving hallway. Three doors, two of only indoor laundry lines but as a tavern and roadhouse dur- which are visible in the photo- also serve as a folly, sewing or ing both Continental and Brit- graph, provide both entrances craft room, or even a guest ish occupations, and over two and good air circulation, which house or child’s playhouse dozen outbuildings, including was important to the function All of these clips are available on when not otherwise needed. ♦ barns, a detached kitchen and of the building as a laundry our great website at www.laundrylist.org/newsroom . dairy, a dry well, a smoke- facility. The fireplace appears house, and several smaller resi- to be original to the structure dences including at least one and is large enough to have NOTE: If you want to help us clip and archive the stories that was occupied by slave accommodated cooking pots at about Project Laundry List, families. Located in the State- one time, as well as large iron please contact us at burg National Historic Register pots used to heat water for [email protected] . Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3 P a ge 7

The Clothesline Said So Much by Marilyn K. Walker A clothesline was a news forecast Then nightclothes and a bathrobe, too, to strangers passing by. haphazardly were strung. There were no secrets you could keep when clothes were hung to dry. It said Gone on vacation now! when lines hung limp and bare. It also was a friendly link It told We’re back! when full lines sagged as neighbors always knew without an inch to spare. if company had stopped on by to spend a night or two. New folks in town were scorned upon if wash was dingy gray It’s then you’d find the fancy sheets as neighbors raised their brows and looked “We must all hang and towels on the line, disgustedly away. together, or most along with linen tablecloths assuredly we will all of intricate design. But clotheslines now are of the past hang separately." for dryers make work less. -Benjamin Franklin The line announced a baby’s birth Now what goes on inside a home to folks who lived inside is anybody’s guess. when brand new infant clothes were hung so carefully with pride. I really miss that way of life. It was a friendly sign The ages of the children could when neighbors knew each other best so readily be known. by what hung on the line! By watching how the sizes changed you’d know how much they’d grown. Ms. Walker was the grand prize finalist at the It also told when illness struck International Society of Poetry Convention in as extra sheets were hung. Washington, D.C. for this poem in 1996.

Ontario on the Line U of Toronto’s Medical Association estimates are related to smog Nalin Sahni on the (Continued from page 5) in the province. beach.

to the fight against climate change and smog. For In order to bring forward our concerns, and to example, the Minister of Energy has failed to des- allow other Ontarians to raise similar important ignate clotheslines as a technology under s. 3(1) of energy conservation issues in the future, we are the Energy Conservation Leadership Act --- de- asking that the Energy Conservation Leadership spite the media and public attention, the potential Act be listed under O. Reg. 73/94 as a law subject energy savings, and the straight-forward remedy to the EBR. This would mean that we and other available. Ontario residents could file applications for review with the Minister of Energy and the minister's The energy use for clothes dryers in the province responses would be formally monitored and re- collectively produces almost 700,000 tonnes of ported on by the ECO. The Commissioner would greenhouse gases each year. The related energy then be empowered to comment on the impor- production, given the contribution of coal-fired tance of adopting regulations under the Act, in- power plants to the province’s energy mix, also cluding one that would prohibit restrictive cove- contributes to the 5,800 premature deaths and nants that ban clotheslines. ♦ 17,000 hospital visits annually that the Ontario P a ge 8 Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3

Calendar Symposium • “Is a Carbon & “Is a Carbon & Nuclear-Free Future Possible?” Nuclear-Free Future Possi- Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at 1 PM ble?” NHTI, Concord, Sweeney Auditorium, New Hampshire Technical Institute NH, on Tuesday, November 27, Concord, NH 2007, at 1 PM.

• Home Energy Conference SNHU, Manchester, NH, on De- Why this symposium now? cember 1, 2007.

In October, Clean Air-Cool Planet held an "Energy & Climate Solutions" conference in Manches- • Board of Directors Meeting ter, NH. Sponsored by Public Service of New Hampshire, the event had former EPA Administra- Concord, NH, Wed., January 16, at tor Christie Todd Whitman as a guest speaker and Ralph Izzo, Chairman and CEO, Public Service 6 PM Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), as keynote speaker. Remarks by three Presidential candi- • Focus the Nation dates—Sen. John McCain, Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Gov. Bill Richardson—all indicated that we January 31, 2008 need to take a look at nuclear power as a possible solution to climate change and our electricity generation needs. For more information about these When Whitman spoke, she spoke on behalf of the CASEnergy Coalition. There was no speaker and other events visit our website or who offered an alternative view of nuclear power, nor was there a major speaker who spoke primar- call (603) 226-3098. ily about biomass, solar, wind, hydroelectric, conservation, energy efficiency, or other renewable or alternative sources of power. CACP told us that they wanted to generate discussion with their con- troversial guest speaker. This is that discussion. Project Laundry List's mission is to "reduce our dependence on environmentally and culturally costly energy sources." We hope that a robust conversation one week after the 2007 NH Energy Seminar and while the Presidential candidates are still shopping for Granite Stater's votes will pro- vide some balance to the discussion of a nuclear power renaissance.

Speakers Keynote: Brent Blackwelder, President & CEO, Friends of the Earth Panelists: John Carroll, Ph.D., Professor, UNH-Durham (moderator) Linda Gunter, Beyond Nuclear Arjun Makihjani, Ph.D., President, IEER John Ranta, teacher, Souhegan High School Presentation: Laundry An Inconvenient Chore? by Alexander Lee

People don't have to wait for the government to take action, but the only way we are going to make progress toward stopping the most devastating effects of climate change is to force our governmen- tal entities at the community, local, state, and federal level to step up to the plate.

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At issue, besides covenants or Making Hay While the Sun Shines bylaws restricting the clothes- line, are similar rules that limit Washington, DC – Project and getting acquainted, the environmental gardening prac- Laundry List convened a call parties agreed to go back to tices and access to solar rights. their organizations and gather with the Community Associa- Those interested in participat- information before we meet tion Institute (CAI). Also on ing in the future dialogue or again. CAI Vice President of the call were representatives who would like to express Government & Public Affairs from the sustainable gardening support for “energy and the Andrew Fortin and Project community, the Natural Re- environment” as the 2009 CAI Laundry List Executive Direc- sources Defense Council Annual Conference topic, tor Alexander Lee organized (NRDC), and the Center for a should contact Andrew Fortin the call and have subsequently New American Dream. at [email protected] or sought additional organiza- (703) 797-6266. ♦ After an hour of conversation tional participants.

Pro Bono The Latest on the Awbrey Butte Affair tended the Oregon Business Services Needed Association's Statesmen Din- Bend, OR – Many of our sup- developments and allow ner, where the “Right to Dry” porters read the front page clotheslines, period,” said Tay- was the talk of the town. story about an Oregon nurse, lor. named Susan Taylor, who was Things are gearing up in North They are instead going to not allowed to hang out her Carolina, too, where there is change the CC&Rs wording to clothes. an abundance of interested make it easier to “screen.” people wanting to change the CEO Mike Halloren at Brooks “I will continue to hang my rules. Resources, the developer of clothes out periodically, espe- Awbrey Butte in Bend, OR, Project Laundry List would cially sheets....when the sun is informed Taylor, on Tuesday, like to test the validity of re- out and there is a breeze...I just Oct. 30th, that they are not strictions in Florida communi- can't stand not to!” she told putting the clothesline issue to ties, which is ostensibly the Project Laundry List. Help Represent a vote. one state where, by law, Homeowners & Renters Susan's goal is to get legislation clotheslines must be permit- “I think the action Brooks has Restricted passed in Oregon to allow ted. taken speaks for itself. They clotheslines. from have decided to maintain their Stay tuned for more on the Hanging Out status quo. I would hope Michelle Markesteijn of Hub- Awbrey Butte saga in future Brooks will look at their future bard, OR, reports having at- editions of Hanging Out . ♦ ______Call immediately at (603) 226-3098.

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StepItUp2007-Concord: Who Was a Leader?

Concord, NH- The Concord Mayor Donovan of Concord The event had a special unex- Monitor , AP, Switzerland’s larg- and City Councilors Jim pected guest in EPA Region 1 est daily newspaper, and The Bouley and Kathi Rogers (both Administrator Bob Varney, Boston Globe photographer, as candidates in a upcoming con- who was invited to say a few well as film students from BU, tentious race for mayoral elec- words. NH Rep. Steve Shur- were on hand for the Nov 3 tion), recounted Concord's tleff also spoke, addressing the Step It Up Concord NH event recent steps forwards. Concord many state legislative initiatives which included remarks from has stepped it up by recently that demonstrate NH's leader- 11 (# correct) leaders includ- becoming a Cool City. ship and commitment to ad- ing: Hon. David Bonior The event began with an hour dressing the threat of climate (Campaign Manager for John of great music by NH’s own change. Edwards for President, whose Indy Rock Band, AM/PM. A few brand new volunteers own supporters planted a mil- Then Alexander Lee, who was were there, including a Con- lion trees); National Audubon Master-of-Ceremonies, read cord woman who lives next Society Board Chair and for- letters from Senators Judd door to Penuche's Alehouse. mer EPA Administrator Carol Gregg and John E. Sununu, as "It is amazing to me that peo- Browner (who spoke on behalf well as from the 1 Sky Initia- ple are allowed to throw up all of Senator Clinton, candidate tive document. Gov. Lynch's over my street, but we can't for US President); and Senator letter was read by Ruth Heath, hang a clothesline. It would be Christopher Dodd (US Presi- co-organizer and staff advisor a great way to save money and dent candidate). to the NHTI Environmental is something that I would like Dodd gave a rousing speech in to be able to do for the envi- which he distinguished himself ronment. I hope Concord's as the clear voice of reason on new leadership will let me do the need for a carbon tax in it." addition to cap & trade meas- Special thanks were paid to ures. The problem is too big Deb DeMoulpied of Real and action is needed too soon, Green Goods, Ruth Heath of he said, to rely only on cap & NHTI, Kally Abrams of Stony- trade. He took three questions field Farms, Rick Watrous (our from the audience and more sound meister), and Alexander privately following the event. Action Club, whose members Lee of Project Laundry List Gov. Jeanne Shaheen worked the crowd, encourag- (initiator and MC). The pres- (candidate for US Senate) ing participants to get their ence of Bruce Clendenning, of spoke about how NH led the “Green Finger” and write on Granite State Conservation way in regulating carbon under their palm what or who they Voters' Alliance, was sorely a bill that she passed as Gover- will be voting to protect. missed. This man was the pri- nor of NH. Former astronaut, Thereafter, Lee introduced all mary worker bee who made Dr. Jay Buckey (candidate for of the aforementioned candi- the incredible sequence of US Senate), quoted Kennedy's dates, as well as Elliot Jacob- speakers possible. famous speech about how we son, National Field Director for presidential candidate Sena- Finally, a cheer for the Middle- must send a man to the moon. bury College graduates who What we need today, he said, is tor Mike Gravel (“one of the biggest supporters of wind comprise the Climate Action the same grand vision—a pro- team at the StepItUp2007 Cli- ject akin to the Apollo or Man- energy”), and Rep Jim Ryan (for presidential candidate Sen. mate Action Center. We appre- hattan Project--that brings ciate the movement that they together the great minds and Joe Biden). All candidates praised the cold and wet audi- and Project Laundry List Advi- innovations of the American sory Board Member Bill people to develop a better en- ence of stalwart climate change activists for bringing leadership McKibben have sparked across ergy future. ♦ and energy to this critical issue. the nation. Hanging Out Volume 7, Issue 3 P a ge 11

Business Plan in the Works

Durham, NH- As Project Laundry List seeks to become a sustainable, staffed operation in the near future, five UNH Whittemore School of Business undergraduate students are working with Executive Director Alexander Lee to develop a business plan. Senior Stephen Bruce of Concord is the team leader. “Our team is very excited to be working with Alex and Pro- ject Laundry List. We are dedicated to helping them achieve a thorough business plan and taking their organization to next level,” said Bruce. They intend to complete their work by mid-November, at which time Lee will meet with foundations, major donors, and business plan specialists. ♦ 27 Holly Street, Suite A Concord, NH 03301

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A Positive Approach to Change

All Your Laundry Needs Volunteers Needed Our new partnership with Real time for Thanksgiving. We need an additional News- tern, Event Planner, and Green Goods allows us to letter Editor to help Susannah You can do much of your Booking Agent . The process make sure that you can find the Eanes, our current editor, with other holiday shopping at her for applying and a longer de- best, high-quality, fair-trade, the hard work of producing downtown store or on their scription of our needs and green laundry products on the this newsletter. Some editing easy-to-use website. We hope expectations can be found at market all at one on-line loca- and solicitation of submissions you will take a look around! www.idealist.org . tion. required. Through the end of the year, a We are always looking for in- Concord business-owner Deb A Database Development percentage of every purchase terns to help with business and DeMoulpied will have laundry Specialist and Web Designer made in the laundry section communications priorities. soap, , “Stewi” dry- would allow us to bring our will be donated to Project This is an exciting time to get ing racks and clotheslines, and website up to speed, collecting Laundry List. ♦ involved with Project Laundry an array of other products in necessary data from media List and we look forward to contacts, Right to Dry activists, hearing how you want to help. and others. We have a lot of fun and take a We have also posted openings positive approach to change. for Blogger, Social Net- worker, Business Develop- If you have questions or con- ment Intern, Curriculum cerns, we urge you to get in Development Specialist, touch at [email protected] Press/Communications In- or (603) 226-3098. ♦

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