Clegg pledges ''a horizon shift''
Nick Clegg has called for an end to the short term approach to social and political thinking and pledged a "horizon shift" to promote mobility and prosperity

High tech street lights to save money
Councils will have the ability to remotely manage street lighting systems, saving an estimated 40 per cent on energy bills

UK emissions exported to China
'Embedded' carbon in imported goods masks greenhouse gas levels rise

Space spin-offs could help the elderly
Work by the UK Space Agency could help to tackle social problems, including elderly care, its chief executive tells Dean Carroll

Nuclear energy is crucial, says Huhne
Energy Secretary tells Public Servant nuclear power ''has an important part to play''

Pickles' reforms attacked
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has come under fire from nearly 30 groups opposed to his decision to axe regional planning policies

Councils ''shouldn't tackle climate change''
Town halls are wasting resources by promoting renewable energy schemes, says Lord Lawson

£6m spent on search engines
Government spending on achieving premium places on search engines reached £6m for just four departments

DECC spent £300k on search engines
A government department has spent over £300,000 'biasing' its position on Google and other search engines

The end of the SDC has been confirmed
Sustainable Development Commission is ''disappointed'' that it will lose Defra funding from the next financial year

Sustainable Development Commission ''will go''
If the government is serious about green issues, the SDC is vital, the Green Party says

Monitoring the global environment from space
New hub for obtaining environmental data from space to be based in Oxfordshire

''UK can't afford defence programme''
Defence Secretary Liam Fox tells firms supplying the sector to improve value for money to the taxpayer

Coalition ''must go further'' on climate change
The government's approach to addressing green issues must be more radical, Conservative MP Tim Yeo

CLG spent £185m on IT in 2009/10
Communities and Local Government Secretary Bob Neill said that IT spend had gone down by £45m