I have decided that ironing my clothes is out. It is a waste of precious energy resources to plug in that iron, let heat up for a few minutes, generate some steam and then push it back and forth over my clothes just to get a few wrinkles out. Somewhere a coal miner is risking black lung disease and the coal he digs out of the ground is polluting our atmosphere and poisoning our oceans fish just so I can have smoothed out clothes which pretty much get re-wrinkled during the 25 minutes commute to my office anyway. So I am taking a stand on behalf of that ailing coal miner and the mercury filled fish of the world by no longer ironing my pants and shirts. And just to be clear this is not because I am lazy or slovenly, this is a principled environmental stand I am taking.