“Hang Out” with G.A.L.A.

Over the last few weeks, G.A.L.A. volunteers have teamed with members of the Kingswood Youth Center to install free solar clothes dryers (a.k.a. clotheslines) for interested area-residents. More clotheslines are still available, but they are going fast!

This free clothesline-installation service is the second part of G.A.L.A.’s Raise a Rope for Climate Hope campaign. The first part of the campaign took place last month on Global Youth Service Day, April 25th with a presentation at the Brewster Pickney Boathouse by Alex Lee, Founding Director of Project Laundry List. To an audience of about twenty, Lee gave an animated presentation about the “Right to Dry” bill (S.41) and how simple lifestyle modifications, including air-drying one’s clothes, reduce our dependence on environmentally and culturally costly energy sources. According to Project Laundry List, conventional clothes dryers account for an average of 5-10% of all residential energy use. (more…)