
Paul Sweeney, Permanent Secretary of the Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure, will be in attendance at the next meeting of the arts policy forum on 27 January

While we cannot be certain of a white Christmas, one thing for sure is that the majority of us will send and receive a colossal number of Christmas cards this year. If you want to make your Christmas a green one, then the Woodland Trust’s seasonal recycling scheme may be just the answer.

The Minister for Social Development, Margaret Ritchie, has launched an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) on the draft Regeneration Plan for the West Side of Belfast city centre.

The Consumer Council has welcomed the Utility Regulator's decision to review electricity prices this winter and its commitment to ensure that falling wholesale energy costs are reflected in lower bills for consumers as quickly as possible.

Listen to your kids - they can save you money and help you beat the recession. That is the message coming from a growing band of Eco-Schools educated school children throughout Northern Ireland.

The Committee for the Environment is to hold an inquiry into climate change.

There has been national TV and radio coverage about pre-payment meters recently which has led to some confusion about NIE Energy’s Keypad pre-payment meter. The situation regarding pre-payment meters is very different in Northern Ireland to that in GB.

The Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland has launched two projects that are designed to engage civil society groups in the challenges of climate change and resource scarcity. In particular, the projects are seeking input from civil society groups that have a social rather than environmental focus to their work.