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 The walls of Cait and Peter Ghys’s strawbale house are half a metre thick and it has just received a 10-star energy rating. By Catherine Watson
AS CAIT and Peter Ghys approached retirement, they decided to fulfil a long-held dream and build a strawbale house.
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 A tree goanna in The Gurdies, 2018. Photo: Bruce Preston, digitally enhanced by George Papas If you’re lucky enough to encounter a goanna in The Gurdies, don’t stand staring at it for too long, advises Dick Wettenhall
 Ben Stephens at the Phillip Island Early Learning Centre Cowes, proposed for the island’s first community solar project. Totally Renewable Phillip Island is seeking support for its first community energy project.
 Peter Wonfor and Moragh Mackay go through some of the options at the Totally Renewable Phillip Island workshop. While the politicians are still arguing about renewable energy, Phillip Islanders are getting on with it.
 Revegetation of a coastal woodland near Rhyll has special meaning for John Eddy. Photo: Gabrielle Mahony  A MEETING on energy justice in Wonthaggi last weekend attracted a full house of people wanting to hear more about local energy projects.
 Bimbadeen farm at Ventrnor A pioneer in carbon-neutral farming, Ventnor beef farmer Bob Davie will share his hard-won knowledge at Outtrim next weekend.
 By Susan Davies
WHEREVER I go across Bass Coast and South Gippsland and beyond I see solar panels, not just a lonely single string on a house as in the old days when I put solar on my place, but large roof-covering accumulations of solar panels on workshops, factories, shops, houses and rural sheds. To some it's a stinking cesspit, but to local artist and printmaker Susan Hall, the ephemeral Inverloch lagoon is a place of environmental richness and artistic inspiration.
 Anitra Nelson Activist-scholar Anitra Nelson discusses options for small and shared living at the eighth South Gippsland Sustainability Festival on Sunday.
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