This poll leaves off the special-occasion styling. My hair falls past my shoulder and 27 days out of the month it dries naturally and is neither curled nor straightened. But then there are those days when you need to take it up a notch and my straightener or rollers come out then.

I put this in the same category as a bath: consumption should be reduced but there's no need to deny ourselves some simple luxuries now and again.

Hey now I agree with Emily... I have short hair so I don't have to do much. But when its below freezing, I am certainly going to use a hair dryer...

I find it quite silly that Treehugger constantly equates electricity consumption to coal burning. Haven't you heard of clean energy, Lloyd? I use a hair drier in the winter, but we have use clean electricity (from water and wind sources) in our household. There's no need to burn fossil fuels to turn on a light -- or a hair drier.

I used the towel choice but in reality I wash my hair maybe 2x a week (this was coming off a no-'poo escapade where my hair got used to it) and I only blow dry for about 2-3 minutes since it's so short. Just to get the cowlicks going the right way and not to freeze outside. Most of it air dries.