If Madison Avenue advertising agencies wrote Etherees* they might come up with something like this Etheree to promote a green alternative to automatic clothes dryers.
free
on-line
clothes drying
method with no
hidden fees or costs
your clothes will dance dry in
gentle breezes—fresh and pure
you use the same safe, clean power
that grandma used way back in her day
our space-based fusion reactor: The Sun.
With the nuclear power plant emergency in Japan, I feel increasing urgency to trim my energy use. Simultaneously, I feel increasing pleasure when I do my small part to shrink my carbon footprint.
Today I am taking particular pleasure in the spring breezes blowing through Sebastopol because they made it possible to give my automatic clothes dryer another day off. I used my clothesline instead.
Leaving the car parked for one more day, we walked downtown to do our shopping. We stopped at the Sebastopol Farm Market in the Town Plaza. Our neighbor Laura Shafer set up a spot to promote her business, Linedry.com. She promotes drying clothes in the sun.
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| Laura and me |
As I talked with Laura, I realized that I can insinuate using clotheslines into my kindergarten curriculum. I plan to do that tomorrow. What reason is there for me or my assistant to hang up the cloth towels the kids use when they could hang them up and feel good about taking responsibility for the task? Duh! (Sometimes I wish I could teach 30 more years.)
I’d like to leave you with these facts. If you use a clothesline to dry your clothes:
You’ll save as much as $300 on your energy bills.
Your automatic dryer will last longer.
Your clothes will last longer, too. (Turn them inside out to reduce fading in the sun.)
You will enjoy the meditation of using a clothesline. (I promise you will!)
Your contribution to green house CO2 emissions will drop by as much as 700 pounds annually.
Please visit Laura’s website, Linedry.com
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| Inside-out your jeans |
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*Consisting of ten lines, the Etheree starts with a one syllable line, then adds one syllable per line, ending with a final line of ten syllables yielding an overall syllable count of 55. In other words the syllabic structure is as follows: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10. It’s an uncomplicated, unpretentious form of writing that has the quality of slowly opening, like a flower. Try composing one—you may like it!
*Consisting of ten lines, the Etheree starts with a one syllable line, then adds one syllable per line, ending with a final line of ten syllables yielding an overall syllable count of 55. In other words the syllabic structure is as follows: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10. It’s an uncomplicated, unpretentious form of writing that has the quality of slowly opening, like a flower. Try composing one—you may like it!
