{"id":2086,"date":"2010-07-02T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:47:59","slug":"care-to-air-design-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/care-to-air-design-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Care to Air Design Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few years ago, a neighbor moved out of our apartment building and gave us her washer\/dryer. Instead of doing our laundry in the building’s basement, we could now do it at home. But there was one catch: our building prohibits the use of dryers. To solve that problem, we decided to keep the washer, pass on the dryer and become air (aka line) dryers with the help of a couple folding metal racks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a little more work, but I enjoy it, much in the way I like composting or cooking.\u00a0 It\u2019s a welcome contrast from my digital existence and makes me feel a bit more grounded.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a household chore that my sons can participate in (with only a limited amount of grousing).<\/p>\n

Last year, I read an article about\u00a0 a non-profit called Project Laundry List<\/a> that was fighting for people\u2019s right to line dry their clothes.\u00a0 Apparently, some towns ban line drying for aesthetic reasons.\u00a0 Project Laundry List\u2019s founder Alex Lee<\/a> is an environmental activist who believes in the energy savings of line drying.\u00a0 It makes a lot of sense, since line drying gets the job done in 24 hours using zero fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

In talking to Alex about his efforts, I learned about the current \u201cCare to Air\u201d design challenge<\/a> being sponsored by Levi\u2019s <\/a>and Myoocreate<\/a>. The Care to Air contest challenges people to design “the world\u2019s most innovative, covetable, and sustainable air-drying solution for clothing.” Levi’s is offering up a $10,000 prize for the best design, and they are doing this in conjunction with their new product care labels that instruct customers to cold water wash, air dry and donate the jeans to Goodwill when they\u2019re done with them. UncommonGoods<\/a> was invited to participate in the design challenge and help judge the winning entries next month.\u00a0 Ultimately, we hope to be able to bring one of the designs to market.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve got an idea, please visit\u00a0 Myoocreate<\/a> to submit. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CEO Dave Bolotsky hangs his laundry out to dry. No, really, he does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[37,30,121,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}