Going Green

Everybody knows that from an environmental stand point we are in a bad place that it's only going to get worse if we don't change our ways. Everyone's trying to come up with new and unique ideas that will save the world. Maybe what we need to do is look at how we used to do things to help determine our next step.

This won't work in every situation since I don't realistically foresee people abandoning their cars and start riding horses again but with simple everyday tasks that we all take for granted. A perfect example is using your clothes dryer. Often times it's not even that good for your clothes since it can be rough on the fabrics shortening the lifetime of your garments and it's also not that cheap since on average it costs about 35 cents for every load.

Maybe it's time we looked back and pull an old trick that will still work. It's one of the original forms of solar power known as the clothesline. The big question is can it really make a difference. The US census put the number of American households at 115,904,641 so if each household used the clothesline for one load per week it would save $40,566,624 in electricity costs every week and $2,109,464,448 every year. Now this is just a drop in the bucket but every little bit helps and as an added bonus your clothes usually smell better.

Anyhow that’s just my two cents let me know what you think.