The possibility of community power schemes and local renewable energy supplies have moved a step closer with changes to the planning system so that councils will be expected to provide for such projects. The responsibility is contained in a new Planning Policy Statement on climate change.
The new guidance means planners will have to promote green growth. At the same time a consultation has been launched on new planning rules for economic growth. 

A new project could make Wales the first part of the United Kingdom where the public sector will buy all its goods and services on line. A ground-breaking scheme that it is estimated could bring savings of up to 200 million pounds over the next five years has been approved by the Welsh Assembly Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery, Andrew Davies. 

By Freada and Kapor Klein
The authors make the hurdles that women and minorities face in the workplace as personal to the reader as they are to those who face them. Giving Notice is filled with sensible approaches for solving the current imbalance and challenges us to rethink unconscious ideas about stereotypes and commonly accepted practices.
This book offers approaches for changing the hidden biases in the workplace.