Another earth day is about to pass and what have we done?
MY one in a million acts of green.
Hang drying my laundry. Yes! DO IT! That’s an order! You can leave the 400 pound denim pieces that take a week, the other heavy cottons and let’s not invade towel territory. We all hate crunchy towels. Polyesters, lycra and dri-tech fabric don’t need to be tumble dried. Since Bamboo is a Shirtseed specialty we’ll focus on that for a moment. Bamboo is absorbent. It can hold a lot of water. A lot of water in an enclosed space equals condensation and moist air, equals everything else inside the dryer will take longer to dry.
I still say bamboo wins over cotton because for some bizarre reason, if you hang it dry, it dries faster than Vegas in an August wind storm. That’s fast.
20% of your house’s electricity is consumed by a clothing dryer. You don’t need to be a statistician to figure out that if everybody started hanging some of their laundry, we might just save the world.
Whew just under the wire for Earth Day. EARTH DAY! Earth day is every day. You should wash in cold as well but we need something to talk about next year.
For now go to BC Hydro and check out what they have to say. They do have to do something to make up for the dams.
Signing off Earth Day
Amy
