Comments on: Want to turn your house green? Not if your homeowner association can help it. http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/04/26/want-to-turn-your-house-green-not-if-your-homeowner-assn-can-help-it/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:42:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Skblllzzzz http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/04/26/want-to-turn-your-house-green-not-if-your-homeowner-assn-can-help-it/#comment-11972 Skblllzzzz Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:52:33 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1257#comment-11972 In The Netherlands many municipalities still do not allow laundry outside the house. These rules stem from the time when rich people had their laundry done by poor people, which meant that you could easily distinguish rich from poor by the laundry outside on the grass (bleaching). So banning laundry outside was an easy way for municipalities of looking rich, and depriving a few more poor people from a source of income. As far as I know these rules are no longer enforced, but they might come in handy some day, so they are still maintained...... In The Netherlands many municipalities still do not allow laundry outside the house. These rules stem from the time when rich people had their laundry done by poor people, which meant that you could easily distinguish rich from poor by the laundry outside on the grass (bleaching).
So banning laundry outside was an easy way for municipalities of looking rich, and depriving a few more poor people from a source of income.
As far as I know these rules are no longer enforced, but they might come in handy some day, so they are still maintained……

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/04/26/want-to-turn-your-house-green-not-if-your-homeowner-assn-can-help-it/#comment-11965 Dan Klarmann Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:56:11 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1257#comment-11965 Anti-clothesline ordinances are common. Ecologically unsound (net carbon generating) grass lawns are often mandated, as opposed to climate appropriate, non-mowed ground covers like ivy, creeping juniper, creeping phlox, <a href="http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/GARDEN/07230.html" rel="nofollow">etc.</a> Anti-clothesline ordinances are common. Ecologically unsound (net carbon generating) grass lawns are often mandated, as opposed to climate appropriate, non-mowed ground covers like ivy, creeping juniper, creeping phlox, etc.

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/04/26/want-to-turn-your-house-green-not-if-your-homeowner-assn-can-help-it/#comment-11963 grumpypilgrim Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:09:12 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1257#comment-11963 A real estate developer bought a house a relative of mine recently sold. One of the changes the developer made to "update" the house was to remove the front screen door. The house sits on a nice wooded lot, and the shade provided cool cross-ventilation through the house on all but the hottest (95+ degrees) summer days. But that was if the front door was open, which will no longer be practical without a screen door to keep out bugs. Now, the house will require air conditioning throughout the summer. Some people in our society call this "progress." I call it stupid. A real estate developer bought a house a relative of mine recently sold. One of the changes the developer made to “update” the house was to remove the front screen door. The house sits on a nice wooded lot, and the shade provided cool cross-ventilation through the house on all but the hottest (95+ degrees) summer days. But that was if the front door was open, which will no longer be practical without a screen door to keep out bugs. Now, the house will require air conditioning throughout the summer.

Some people in our society call this “progress.” I call it stupid.

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