No Right to Dry

The right to air your laundry in public (even your clean laundry) won no guarantee when addressed in the North Carolina Senate Commerce Committee yesterday. The law that would have prohibited cities from banning clotheslines passed in the House but met with only laughter and wisecracks from the senators who shut it down.

The legislation's original intent was to prevent condo and housing associations from making rules against what some consider to be unsightly clotheslines.

Organizations like Project Laundry List and the Sierra Club have championed the right-to-dry movement as a way to save energy by skipping the dryer—which accounts for 6 percent of the energy used by U.S. households.

To learn more about the right-to-dry movement, click here.

--Sarah F. Kessler

 

Comments

[Dog Gifts]

Sometimes I think the Senate is the only effective at one thing - making sure the globe heats up as quickly as possible in as short a time as possible... and of course filling their own pockets in the process.

[Dog Gifts]

Sorry, I was so angry having read the news that my writing went to pot!

Take 2, if I may:

Sometimes I think the Senate is the only effective at one thing - making sure the globe heats up as much as possible in as short a time as possible... and of course filling their own pockets in the process.

[Nikki Thomas]

I'd have to agree with you "dog gifts," It is definately what is wrong with govt. system. Barack Obama always says that "real change" never starts in Washington, and that's what needs to change, because it is not the job of the American people to run the country.