Rupert Read

Rupert Read

Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project. Former UEA professor. Ex-Green Party Councillor 2004-2011, helped draft the Green 2009 Euro-election manifesto. Founder member and ex-chair of Green House.

Molly Scott Cato

The Green Case For A Progressive Pact: Debating the next election

This pamphlet looked at the case for a progressive alliance and how Greens could benefit. It includes contributions from Molly Scott Cato, Victor Anderson, Rupert Read, Jonathan Essex, and Sara Parkin.



Victor Anderson

Critiquing ‘Common Cause’

The authors each reflect and comment on the Common Cause report published in 2010



Rupert Read

Post-growth localisation

This pamphlet outlines the fundamental features of economic globalisation and localisation, how a shift towards the local might be accomplished, and what it asks of us in terms of action.



Rupert Read

Green economics versus growth economics: The case of Thomas Piketty

Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism is an ambitious synthesis of a number of existing arguments that collectively aim to show that ‘capitalism is a complex, adaptive system which has reached the limits of its capacity to adapt,’ and which goes on to sketch a Postcapitalist future.



Rupert Read

Post-growth Common sense: Political Communications for the Future

How should we describe the post-growth economy? Where is the term or frame that we are looking for? That was the central appointed task of this report.



Rupert Read

Strangled by the Duopoly

John Hare and Rupert Read’s new report argues that any discussion of party funding that does not examine the wider crisis of UK democracy – including questions of electoral system, participation-rates and corporate power – is an exercise in deckchair-rearrangement.



Rupert Read

Guardians of the Future: A Constitutional Case for representing and protecting Future People

Rupert Read explores ensures that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice



Rupert Read

How to relate ourselves to future people: justice or love?

Green House aims to stand with the oppressed of the world, against the system that oppresses them, with the dispossessed, with the victims of colonialism, with the new slaves, with all those whose suffering and dispossession are the faces of disaster triumphant upon the surface of this Earth.