These men
and women have earned the title of Laundry Hero for their
creative, timely and/or tireless advocacy of the clothesline and
sensible alternatives to wasteful energy consumption.
Gov. Jim
Douglas
Governor
State of Vermont
Governor Douglas uses a clothesline. We look to
him for bold leadership in the future when faced with a chance to
support energy conservation measures that reach thousands of
Vermont families.
These two men worked together in an ultimately
failed attempt to save the wooden clothespin industry in this
country. Today, all manufactured wooden spring-clip clothespins are imported, mostly from
China.
Project Laundry List recognizes celebrities who speak on behalf of the
environment and try to make common sense alternatives attractive
to the mass culture.
Chief Energy Conservation Officer
(Ontario, Canada)
Peter Love was appointed Ontario’s first Chief
Energy Conservation Officer in April 2005 to head the Conservation
Bureau, a division of the Ontario Power Authority.
He wants more people
to be able to legally hang their clothes out to dry.
Peter Love released a dozen recommendations in November 2007 that
he says would cut down on energy use in the province.
One of them is a proposal for a provincial regulation that would
end the ban on outdoor clotheslines in some subdivisions.
For her significant intellectual contribution,
we recognize the author of The
Quotidian Mysteries : Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work. Exploring the spiritual life,
her work is at once intimate and historical, rich in poetry and
meditations, brimming with exasperation and reverence, deeply
grounded in both nature and spirit, sometimes funny, often
provocative, and always important.
Phyllis
Morris
Mayor
Aurora, Ontario,
CANADA
Phyllis is leading the charge at the municipal and
provincial level, featuring Right to Dry information on her
mayoral website and having presented Vice President Al Gore with a
Right to Dry T-shirt.
If you wish to nominate somebody, please send an email with
your written citation, relevant news or blog links, a picture, and
the name of the individual whose actions you consider heroic to
chair@laundrylist.org.
Daryl Hannah
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