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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I see not using the dryer as a way to save
money. Everything costs....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Susan</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=9watts@gmail.com href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com">Reuben Deumling</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:44
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Greenbuilding] drying
clothes</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Racheli Gai <SPAN
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href="mailto:racheli@sonoracohousing.com">racheli@sonoracohousing.com</A>></SPAN>
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<DIV>But it's also important not to assume that arguing against the use of
dryers necessarily means that people are claiming "moral superiority".
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<DIV>Racheli, well said! <BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>The problem I'm concerned with is that energy-efficiency-as-policy
suggests that we can skip this conversation altogether, as long as we're
buying energy efficient products. <BR><BR>I don't know if not having a dryer
is morally superior or not. I'll leave that for future generations to
determine. If one has (gotten used to using) a clothes dryer, figuring
out what steps to take to get by without a machine to dry one's laundry,
though, seems like a prudent direction in which to move, all things
considered. <BR><BR>Saying 'I/we/people I know who live on the fifteenth floor
of a posh building in Hong Kong dry my/our/their clothes clothes without a
machine' can also, I think, be appreciated as opening up a space for others
who may rely on a clothes dryer to consider this as a possibility. The
assumption that this statement is necessarily made within a moral framework,
by which I think some people mean 'I am being lectured at and I resent that,'
may reflect as much or more about the hearer than the speaker.<BR><BR>As for
apartments or living in cities, people dry their clothes the world over under
those circumstances--without machines. Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Bangkok, Hong
Kong, London... I don't know the distribution of clothes dryers in those
particular cities but believe that (a) on average the available space is if
anything lower per capita there than what many of us who live in US cities are
used to, and (b) they also do *much* less laundry than some of us have gotten
used to doing.<BR><BR>The challenge as I see it is to identify or re-discover
practical, cheap (vernacular) ways of accomplishing our domestic routines with
fewer (eventually no) fossil fuels. As Amory Lovins said thirty five years
ago: <BR>"A society cannot aspire to be both conspicuously consumptive and
elegantly <SPAN><SPAN class=il>frugal</SPAN></SPAN>. The hard and soft paths
are culturally and institutionally antagonistic, and furthermore, compete for
the same limited resources." <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Energy
Controversy: Soft Path Questions & Answers</SPAN> p. 5 <BR><BR>Reuben
Deumling<BR></DIV></DIV>
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