Tip of the day
Thanks to Friends of the Earth, a "Tip of the Day" arrives in my email inbox every morning. I'm rarely inspired by these ideas big and small for living in harmony with the planet (though I admit to being somewhat taken by the suggestion this week for boiling carrots and mushrooms and making vegetable stock).
But after hanging up clothes to dry in the house this rainy morning, today's tip did catch my attention:
If you are drying clothes indoors, try to avoid putting them over a radiator. This stops heat reaching the rest of the room, creates damp and encourages mould. Instead, put up a clothes horse in an unheated room and open the window slightly to allow damp to escape. This tip comes from Friends of the Earth's book 'Save Cash and Save the Planet' available at http://www.foe.co.uk/shop
The tips originate in the UK, and I think the advice for Japan would be to hang the clothes in an unheated room (no change) but to leave the window closed. That way, the damp clothes can humidify the dry winter air in the room.
Great idea! Now all I need for instant winter humidification is a clothes horse.
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--Julian
