Living Lightly is a collection of local stories about sustainable living.
The column commenced in 2012 and until 2023 was published in the Border Mail newspaper each week.
The content is community sourced – groups, organisations and individuals have written and contributed each of these informative and entertaining articles – all overseen by a local volunteer coordinator.
We are currently considering a monthly schedule for articles, stay tuned as we explore this option.
Here you can browse and search previous articles or subscribe to receive an email each time an article is published.
The Living Lightly coordinator is always keen to receive articles! Use the link below to find out how you can submit an article for the column.
With a big thank you to all the Living Lightly authors for contributing to this wonderful collection of articles.
By Lizette Salmon Lizette is the convener of WATCH (Wodonga & Albury Towards Climate Health) and a member of Transition Towns Albury Wodonga. Isn’t it funny how you often end up mimicking your parents in ways you swore you never would? As a youngster I couldn’t understand why my parents didn’t
By Lizette Salmon Lizette is a member of Transition Towns Albury Wodonga and the convener of WATCH (Wodonga & Albury Towards Climate Health) In a previous life I worked at a hospital in Melbourne where I became very concerned at the huge volumes of paper wasted on site. It was
By Rowena Booker Rowena works for the Victorian Relief Food Bank We all hate to throw out excess produce from our backyard but there really is a point where we realise that we just have too much and we don’t know what to do with it all. Sometimes it’s even
By Gabrielle Prior Gabrielle is a member of Beechworth Sustainability and the North East Regional Sustainability Alliance Are you tired of tired of living in a winter cave with the curtains drawn to keep in the warmth? Are you wishing you had double glazing, but can’t afford it? Or perhaps
By Lizette Salmon Lizette is a member of Transition Towns Albury Wodonga and the convener of WATCH (Wodonga & Albury Towards Climate Health) In recent times I’ve heard several nightmare stories about people’s electricity bills. Obviously electricity retailers have hiked their prices because of infrastructure upgrades but many of the
