Why write letters to newspapers? Letters to the editor are very popular with readers. A well written letter has the potential to change the view of thousands. Politicians take notice of letters and assign daily reading as a task to staff. Some letters like this one...
Category: Letters
Unpublished Letters – April Edition
Lighter Footprints has a talented pool of committed letter writers. Some very good letters go unpublished. This is the first in a series of selected unpublished letters from the group that we believe will be of interest. The formats of the letters have been modified...
Highlights from the Letter Writing Group
2019 – the kids got organised! There are 60 committed writers in the Letter Writing group of Lighter Footprints. In 2019, 40 of them successfully published 344 interesting, hard-hitting and thought-provoking letters, 222 on climate. The group was passionately...
A flood of climate letters in the AFR
Congratulations to the dedicated and persistent letter writers who have been featured during the second week of January in the Australian Financial Review! It takes a special person to get up early day after day, scan articles and the news, and respond with wit, grace...
Age letter – Sunday 28 December, 2014
Ripping letter from our Convenor Carolyn Ingvarson on Sunday!
Letter published in Progress Leader
Our Convenor Carolyn Ingvarson makes it into the Progress Leader this month! The New Way? With all the talk about a new way, where is the vision for a real new Australia, one that is powered by a green economy driving renewable energy, one that values our environment...
Age letter – August 19, 2013
Convenor Carolyn Ingvarson makes it into the Age this August! Policies lack credibility At the packed Kooyong/Chisholm forum on climate change last week, three class candidates spoke with strength and some passion about the need to tackle this vital issue. The Greens...
December 2008 highlights
“Silence equals acceptance. Speak Out” Once again, Lighter Footprints took to the streets of Boroondara. This time, 5-6pm, 23 Dec at Camberwell Junction. Again raising local awareness of climate change, this time with a message to contact PM Rudd and...