[Greenbuilding] drying clothes

[Reuben Deumling]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:40 PM, <bill.allen at verizon.net> wrote:

> But with higher energy prices, I bet we will see even more of what I see
> too often already....people throwing out perfectly good dryers (appliances,
> houses, etc.) to replace them with a "green" one.  Very few people don't
> seem to see the absurdity of that....
>
Rich people, that is. I was once told that to be an environmentalist you had
to be rich. Then I discovered that (on average) rich people use far more
energy than poor people. Luckily the averages mask the fact that in the
actual non-average world plenty of people who could afford to waste a lot of
energy don't.


> How do we get folks to think about this stuff?
>
here's one way some of us are:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/90PercentReduction
(quite a few folks from this list have wandered over there)

And another approach: http://transitionus.org/

And if you want to send your friends a well made video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqDS9wGsxQ
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