--L o v e on the L i n e --
Put your Love on the Line
and invite others, too. Anyone can do
it.
Take your clothes out of the drier and put them into the air to dry, indoors or out.
Take a photo, if
you’d like, and post it on Facebook, in Laundromats, on clotheslines…tell
neighbors.
Share the benefits –
save 1.5 square meters of habitat for a year, save money, get exercise.
Let it
All
Hang Out!
For the Earth
For US All!
Love on the Line, A Local Campaign for Earth Month 2016 seeded
in Boulder County for the whole Planet.
Participant organizations: Our-Sacred-Earth.org , http://xoearth.org/clothesline/
and The Artbox at Water Mark of
Lyons PPP (Press, Paperhandmade, Permaculture)
Press Release Follows:
Put your Love on the Line, hang your clothes
BOULDER, Colo. — Honoring Earth this month, local nonprofit Our Sacred Earth is
promoting Love on the Line, a local clothesline initiative encouraging
everyone to give the Earth a break by air-drying their clothes. The
aim is help slow down climate change by getting more people in Boulder and
beyond to let air and/or sun dry their clothes - instead of using fossil fuel gas
or coal-run electric dryers.
Love on the Line
was inspired by a song written by Stele Ely, Boulder's own Earth Man. You can hear
his song, "Love on the Clothesline," at http://xoearth.org/clothesline/
Love on the Line
initiative asks people to hang their clothes, take pictures and post photos on
Facebook and put their own posters in coin-operated Laundromats, laundry rooms
and neighborhoods. Let's enjoy collaborating for the Earth and for us all by
taking an easy action that makes a difference.
Letting the sun and wind do the work of a clothes dryer
benefits the environment and atmosphere, which is being pushed to overheat by our
over-use of fossil fuels. Stele Ely, a "Love On The Line" volunteer says, “Approximately 1.5 square
meters of habitat potential is protected or recovered every time a person uses
a clothesline or a drying rack - instead of a gas or electric dryer." [XOEarth.org/ecofx]
To join "Love On The Line" and its mission to slow down
climate change, get inspired from www.XOEarth.org/Clothesline, or www.Our-Sacred-Earth.org or call 720.340.8080 or just take your clothes
out of the dryer stream and put them into the air. You can get clotheline which is kite string at Boulder's IntoTheWind.com and clothespins from McGuckin Hardware.
You can hear and sing-along with the "Love On The Line" theme
song by Boulder's own XOEarth Man at XOEarth.org/Clothesline
Colorado is one of the states with a
"clothesline" law so HOAs cannot prevent homeowners
from air drying (in a reasonable way—as with a retractable
clothesline). See: The Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act (“CCIOA”), which includes this info:
“owners in condominium associations need
to first obtain permission from the association, and renters from
owners.”
“Love on the Line” Dryer facts
- About
80 percent of U.S. homes have a dryer whereas in the 1950’s we didn’t use
them
- Dryers
account for 10 percent of household electricity use in US
- Only
5 percent of Italian homes have a dryer.
- Cutting
U.S. dryer use to that of Italy would save 180 billion pounds of
greenhouse gases annually, the equivalent of taking 18 million cars off
the road, and save $8 billion a year
(Source: Ning Mosberger-Tang of Boulder’s C3
Climate Culture Collaborative)

Harry Albert (resident of Boulder, CO for 52 years) and Bonnie Sundance,
both of Our Sacred Earth, having tea on his deck under clothesline.