Jonathan Essex

Jonathan Essex

Jonathan serves as a green borough and county councillor. Jonathan is involved in Surrey Climate Commission. Jonathan is a chartered civil engineer and environmentalist.

Jonathan Essex

How to Make Do and Mend our Economy

This report is about how ‘building’ a post-growth future cannot take for granted building in the literal sense: building comes at a huge ecological cost and tends to drive up consumption in all other areas.



Jonathan Essex

Inquiry into Green Finance by the Environmental Audit Committee

In our evidence, written by Molly Scott Cato and Jonathan Essex, we suggested using an Energy Return on Energy Invested measure to assess whether an investment is green, and a much greater emphasis on public and co-operative financing of green infrastructure.