Green Leadership – Questions for candidates
Questions for the candidates in the 2025 leadership elections for UK-based Green Parties.
TV Series: I can't get you out of my head
Review of Adam Curtis TV Series 'I can't get you out of my head'. How did our society become this polarised? Why doesn't there appear to be a political route out of our predicament? It pulls out a thread of points which question the value of individualism, role of science and source of meaning.
Ultra Processed People
Peter Sims reviews Chris van Tulleken book 'Ultra Processed People' published 2023. He concludes with nine fundamental lessons, which apply much more widely than the food sector. The books follows the money, cuts through the controversy and there will be something in it that surprises everyone.
Beyond Drax: A Real Green Future for Yorkshire and the Humber
In this report we quantify and describe over 70,000 green jobs across various sectors in Yorkshire and the Humber over ten years. We propose a redirection of Drax subsidies towards this vision.
Post 2024 General Election Survey - Analysis
The Green House 2024 general election survey highlights big questions for Green Parties around their purpose and differentiation from other political parties, how to represent increasingly diverse views and how to model the society they wish to see through their own internal governance systems.
How to Hide an Empire
Peter Sims reviews Daniel Immerwahr's book, 'How to Hide an Empire'. A tour of US imperialism, how it happened, how it shapes our world today, and implications for how we respond to our global predicament (particularly the threat of climate change).
Geopolitics of Degrowth Interviews
Can a European Union that is the first to renounce economic growth still be a global player? This project initiates a conversation between critics of economic growth and progressive thinkers on foreign and security policy. Green House think tank collaborated as a partner to this project led by the Green
Heating and Cooling of Buildings
This Policy Briefing applies recommendations of the Rethinking Energy Demand framing report to the heating and cooling of buildings. It outlines the current context, the need to reduce the number of buildings heated and the amount of heating and cooling needed within them.
Rethinking Energy Demand
Framing Report published in collaboration with Green European Foundation - If industrialised European societies are to reach zero carbon on a timescale compatible with limiting climate change, they must significantly reduce their energy demand. This will disrupt business-as-usual.
Beyond Consumerism Conference
Green House Think Tank involvement in upcoming 'Beyond Consumerism Conference' on 14th May.
The conversation isn’t where we thought it was
XR-UK has released its 2022 strategy As the World Looks Up We Step Up expanding on its 2019 list of demands. Prashant and Peter from Green House Think Tank core group briefly reflect on it's significance.
