Project Laundry List was a
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
group that encouraged the outdoor drying of clothes, "making air-drying laundry and cold-water washing acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy," as quoted from their mission statement. It supports what is sometimes called the "
right to dry".
Nashua Telegraph "Idea of PLL Hung Out to Dry"
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It provided information to help change laws and prevent neighborhoods, private housing developments, and apartment complexes from outlawing clothes line
A clothes line or washing line is any type of rope, cord, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two sticks), outside or indoors, above the level of the ground. Clothing that has recently been washed is hung along the line t ...
s because of aesthetic reasons, under the stated principle "All citizens nation-wide should have the legal right to hang out their laundry."
The organization was founded by a resident of Concord, New Hampshire
Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2020 census the population was 43,976, making it the third largest city in New Hampshire behind Manchester and Nashua.
The village of ...
, Alexander Lee, but went into hiatus after Lee moved to China in 2010 and as of 2017 does not appear to be extant.
References
External links
Project Laundry List
"Clothesline Rule Creates Flap" Boston Globe article March 13, 2008
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Laundry organizations
Organizations based in New Hampshire