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![[Susan Taylor]](images/Taylor_20070918.jpg) "You
are the best!! Thank you so much for your website and listening to
my clothesline story of woe. I had pretty much hit the wall before
discovering you. Thank you for being there and connecting me with
Anne-Marie Chaker from the Wall Street Journal. I now have
hope. Thanks for "hanging in there" and doing what is right!"
-Susan Taylor,
Bend, Oregon
"What a clever
idea! We need to be thinking constantly of ways each of us in our
own lives can consume less of the world's resources."
-Abbott Fenn, Vermont conservationist
"Project Laundry List is a wonderful idea for getting people
interested and excited about taking personal responsibility for
energy conservation. I applaud your efforts which are both
innovative and important."
(See full letter...)
-Hon. Bernie
Sanders, United States Senator (VT)
 "Laundry
offends the aesthetic sensibilities of some people. Where in
Victorian times, clotheslines were ubiquitous, Mrs. Brown’s
brassiere blowing in the breeze has apparently become scandalizing
to some modern Americans. A strange brand of prudery has made it
impossible for some people to conserve energy and money by using a
clothesline."
-Helen Caldicott, M.D., Project Laundry List Advisory Board member
Founder of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR)
“As a way of prompting public discussion about
energy use, [Project Laundry List] promises to be effective without
being dogmatic.”
-John McCardell, President Emeritus, Middlebury
College
“...[Project Laundry List] stirred up memories
of my childhood because I did most of the laundry for my family when
I was ten or twelve and we had only a ringer washing machine and an
outdoor clothesline, so I hung our family’s clothes on the line in
winter. It was cold and they were frozen, but they dried. When I
read your article, I strung a series of lines in our basement and
have not used the dryer since. I feel good to be making a small
contribution toward using less electricity!”
-Carol Collins, Vermont craftswoman
 “I applaud the imagination and energy behind
Project Laundry List...Bringing this message home, and relating it
to our personal housekeeping practices, both places it in a more
understandable context and encourages us all to take responsibility
for our daily chores.”
-John Elder, editor, writer, &
professor
"Alexander Lee is
my kind of environmental activist/evangelist. He is not trying to
sell me a product that will reduce my carbon footprint two-tenths of
one percent in the next ten years. He is not trying to make me
ashamed of my standard of living, or getting in my face about how I
have to lower it because “it’s not easy being green.” He’s telling
me how to save money by being green. He’s telling me to wash my
clothes in cold water and hang my laundry out to dry on a
clothesline, like my grandmother did. At about $85 per year, the
dryer is the most expensive household appliance after the
refrigerator."
-Ken Braiterman, editor, writer, &
professor
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 “Prohibiting or
limiting the ability of people to sun-dry their clothes
inadvertently encourages, even forces, people to the Laundromat—or
to buy a dryer. In today’s world, we should be making every effort,
calling on our ingenuity and creativity, to encourage people to
conserve energy. We can afford to do no less.”
-Noel J. Brown, United Nations Environment Programme
Letter to VT State Rep. Tom Smith, April 1991
 The man who wrongly holds that every human
right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate
of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his
property subject to the general right of the community to regulate
its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
- President Theodore Roosevelt
“We must all hang together, or most
assuredly we will all hang separately."
-Benjamin Franklin
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