Electric vehicles, a carbon farming tour, and a low carbon lunch are on the menu as Totally Renewable Phillip Island marks its first year of action.

Fifteen items were repaired and saved from going to landfill in the first Fixit café.

Some of Phillip Island’s trees are as historic and memorable as our heritage-listed buildings, writes Greg Buchanan

The South Gippsland Conservation Society launches a major report on Inverloch’s coastal erosion.

While many of us are trying to reduce our impact on the earth, we need collective action to tackle climate change, writes Michael Nugent. And that starts with Bass Coast Council.

Tidal generators at San Remo, a biodigester at the Grantville landfill, floating solar arrays on the Candowie and Lance Creek reservoirs ... just some of the ideas put forward for a local energy roadmap. Catherine Watson reports

Residents can help shape the region’s renewable energy future at a series of workshops this month.

Removing foreshore reserve vegetation to extend Inverloch’s shared pathway is madness when we are already experiencing massive erosion, writes Aileen Vening.

Mothers and others gathered in Inverloch to mourn for the first mammal to be wiped out by rising seas.

Five years ago someone suggested putting some solar panels up at the State Coal Mine. Yesterday a mini solar farm of 92 kWh of solar panels and 41 kWh of battery storage was switched on.

Bass Coast Climate Action Network launches itself with a film screening and panel discussion. Maddy Harford reports

Could Western Port’s mangroves help to tackle climate change? The answer, writes Neil Daly, is in the tea leaves, if only the politicians would take notice.

Tree clearing on Phillip Island has reached epidemic proportions, writes Bernie McComb, as new research shows the profound effect of trees on keeping our planet habitable.

Stayed loyal to your electricity company year after year? Then you’re probably paying more than other people, writes Susan Davies.

Young conservationists have an opportunity to meet like-minded people in a beach clean-up and glamp on Phillip Island.

PHILLIP Island wildlife carers Kaylene Mendola and Colleen Gilbee found plenty of support when the council confiscated their warning signs late last month.

The walls of Cait and Peter Ghys’s Inverloch strawbale house are half a metre thick and it has just received a 10-star energy rating.

If you’re lucky enough to encounter a goanna in The Gurdies, don’t stand staring at it for too long, advises Dick Wettenhall

Totally Renewable Phillip Island is seeking support for its first community energy project.

While the politicians are still arguing about renewable energy, Phillip Islanders are getting on with it. Linda Cuttriss reports