Before Redoing the poll that I answered here, we were asked to read the following articles:

• Domestic Energy Use and Sustainability, The ImpEE Project, The University of Cambridg – A useful short slideshow that introduces the wider implications of our domestic energy use.
• Consumer Energy Center, The California Energy Commission – An article about ‘smart’ purchasing and using of dishwashers.
• What’s the carbon footprint of…doing the dishes? The GreenLiving Blog from The Guardian newspaper – One of a series of blog articles exploring lifestyle choices.
• What’s the carbon footprint of…drying your hands? The GreenLiving Blog from The Guardian newspaper – One of a series of blog articles exploring lifestyle choices.
• Room for Debate: Should the US burn or bury its trash? The Opinion pages of The New York Times – A debate with conflicting expert input on the benefits of a new generation of ‘green’ incinerators.

Other articles found subsequently include:

• What’s the carbon footprint of… a load of laundry? – The Guardian
• Green Toolbox (copy of the Green Toolbox PDF)
• World Bank’s What is Sustainable Development
• Plan LoCaL
• Everybody’s Talking About Climate Change
• Friends of the Earth’s Is incineration or landfill better?
• The environmental comparison of landfilling vs. incineration of MSW accounting
  for waste diversion PDF
• A comparative study of three different hand drying methods: paper towel, warm air dryer, jet air dryer. PDF

Reading through the articles and resources it appears that I am mostly right in my thoughts.