Council has signed up to a five-year action plan to reduce litter pollution from Elster Creek flowing through the Elwood Canal into the bay. TWiSK describes the plan and explains how you can help.

Just days before the annual homage to screeching tyres, burning rubber and competitive motor sport, Council voted to urge the State Government to trial new acoustic noise camera technology at a local hooning hotspot. TWiSK says don’t throw away your ear plugs just yet.

Council has endorsed an updated Emergency Management Plan to help us be at our best when we face the worst. TWiSK has a list of recent events that prompted an emergency plan response.

While Council is proposing a change to the Community Amenity Local Law about encampments on Council land, a court has found that Queensland’s Moreton Bay Council violated the human rights of evicted homeless campers. This casts a shadow over the proposed changes in Port Phillip. TWiSK investigates.

Everyone is welcome at the next Probus event with Alan Attwood, writer, former Age journalist, foreign correspondent and Big Issue editor. He’ll discuss the changes he has experienced both here and overseas. Wednesday morning at the Bowlo. $5 non members.

Brightspace has new digs Elsewhere in Carlisle Street. They are opening an ‘Autumn Salon’ with works by Sarah Altmann, Chris Bellamy, Libby Noblett and Shaunagh Keenan. Check it out from Thursday.

Get lucky this Friday 13th with this hardcore troubadour from Canada via California to home in Nashville. Poltz is described as part musical genius, part court jester, and part philosopher. Memo. Friday.

The quadrella of free tree love. A book launch in the Botanical Gardens with a picnic and drawing workshop with the award-winning Trace Balla. Free and family friendly. Saturday. EcoCentre.