Nature provides a clothes dryer

Among the design features of an environmentally friendly house depicted in “Living green, by design” (Your Money, July 29) was a clothes drying rack inside the house. You should have included as well the old-fashioned but extremely efficient outdoor clothesline. The sun is still our cheapest and healthiest form of power for drying laundry, a fact celebrated in Australia with cleverly designed clotheslines that take up much less space than conventional long lines. We should be promoting this form of drying in California too.

Susan Shields

Santa Barbara