30.04.2023
Journal, Media

Giving Back

Since the beginning, Lightly has operated with respect for our environment, community and local industries. We are working towards being carbon neutral by 2024.

We believe living purposefully begins with respect and gratitude for nature.

In partnership with our makers, we work to make each step of every piece as sustainable as possible. We constantly question how we can innovate, reinvent industry practice and further reduce our impact.

Our design philosophy is centred on resourceful and sustainable manufacturing. Everything we make is created with intention and care, designed to be purposeful and produced with tomorrow in mind.

Growing up on a farm in the western Australian Wheatbelt, we learnt to create something from nature with imagination – and this journey continues today.

Our products are designed in Australia and made through small-batch production. We strive for zero waste of raw materials to reduce our footprint. Orders are dispatched from our Melbourne warehouse using locally-made cardboard, packaging and marketing materials. We use carbon-neutral shipping providers.

Our commitments.

— We plant one tree for every online order.

Since we started our partnership with Carbon Neutral's Plant-a-Tree Conservation Program in 2020, you've helped us plant over 1,500 trees and reduce our carbon emissions yearly through investments in offsets in the Yarra Biodiversity Corridor.

— We offset our carbon emissions through investments in wind, solar and replanting forests.

In 2022 we further reduced our carbon emissions by purchasing 40 tonnes of offsets in the Yarra Biodiversity Corridor.

— We celebrate diversity, inclusion and equality through opportunity and collaboration.

Our consideration as a company has been supporting and nurturing the people we work with, from our first production in Australia in 2005 and now with local artisans on handcrafted pieces in India through to our close relationships with our local community of makers and suppliers in Australia.

Our design philosophy is centred on resourceful and sustainable manufacturing. Everything we make is created with intention and care, designed to be purposeful and produced with tomorrow in mind.