Raise a Rope for Climate Hope: a youth-driven, community-service, climate-action project
The Wolfeboro, New Hampshire based nonprofit, Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.) is gearing up to join thousands of other youth from around the world on Global Youth Service Day to help tackle their generation’s most pressing environmental issue – climate change. Their strategies are local in practice and global in scope. Collectively these actions will make a difference.
In collaboration with local youth groups including Kingswood & Kids, Kingswood Youth Center, and the Brewster Environmental Club, G.A.L.A. is proud to share one plan of action – Raise a Rope for Climate Hope. This climate action project will connect advocacy and service. First, Alex Lee, Founding Director of Project Laundry List will give a presentation to raise awareness about the “Right to Dry” bill (S.41). At the presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to register for a free clothesline of their choice to be installed by youth teams later in May. Continue reading to learn more about this exciting Earth Week and Global Youth Service opportunity.
On, April 25th Alex Lee, Founding Director of Project Laundry List will give a presentation titled “Laundry: An Inconvenient Chore?” from 6-7:30 at the Brewster Pickney Boathouse in Wolfeboro, NH. Lee’s presentation will explain the latest standing on the “Right to Dry” bill (S.41), a bill introduced by former Vermont State Senator, Dick McCormack, in response to restrictive community covenants, landlord prohibitions, and zoning laws. Lee will also share how his organization combines words, images, and advocacy to raise awareness about how simple lifestyle modifications, including air-drying one’s clothes, reduce our dependence on environmentally and culturally costly energy sources. Attendees will have a chance at the end of the presentation to register for a free clothesline installation of their choice – umbrella, pulley, or standard.
Funding for this national youth-driven initiative is provided by Youth Service America’s Red, White, & Green grant and Disney Minnie Grant. Join in the action, join in the fun, join in the Great Turning.
Josh,
I read that the clothesline campaign was still available…I would love to talk to you about putting up a clothesline (pulley type if possible) at my home.
Thanks,
Derrie Saunders
We are starting an organization in Boulder, CO and would love some input on getting youth involved. Hope to get in to schools and educate on benefits of line drying.
Website is not up yet: Linedrypledge.org
Outreach also to include community at large. We will ask people to sign a pledge to dry 1 or 2 loads a week by line (more if they like). We hope to make hanging laundry the new green status symbol.
I’m a reporter for a small weekly newspaper in the SF Bay Area.
I don’t know where you’re located, but do you know of any contacts in California who are working toward a “right-to-dry” initiative such as reportedly passed in Vermont recently?
Please write or, if necessary, call at 650-854-2690, ext. 210.
I am writing this story this week so I need to talk with people in California ASAP.
Thanks very much. – Dave Boyce