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Green House Think Tank
Green House Think Tank

COVID-19 and Facing up to Climate Reality

Online discussion about what the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts to contain it may mean for the climate and ecological crisis. With John Barry, Anne Chapman, John Foster, and Reinhard Loske.



Emma Dawnay

Another Brexit is Possible

This report considers that the option of remaining in close alignment with the EU is too politically difficult to achieve. Having made this assumption, it argues that the only viable option is building national resilience through more localisation combined with deeper global cooperation.



Anne Chapman

Dirt to Soil: one family's journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Gabe Brown discusses his principles of soil health and is useful to farmers and anyone concerned with food production and the state of farming.



Andrew Mearman

The UK government economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Three possible lessons for climate emergency planning

This gas looks at government economic policy. Could there be a radically different role for the state?



Jonathan Essex

Building Back Differently: A Climate Emergency Recovery from COVID-19

Jonathan Essex's gas examines the lessons we need to draw from the covid crisis in order to rebuild and ensure an equitable recovery from this crisis.



Robert Magowan

Global Green Politics

Peter Newell’s first goal in this book is to guide the field of International Relations towards an endeavour long overdue. As set out in his first chapter, IR of all disciplines is one you would expect to have some appreciation of ecology and the biosphere, as the basis for wellbeing and security.



Anne Chapman

Will COVID-19 help us tackle climate change?

This 'gas' discusses three of these possible changes, two of which may be positive for tackling the climate crisis and one negative, before going on to outline some similarities and differences between climate change and COVID-19.



Jonathan Essex

What would a UK climate emergency plan that faces up to climate reality look like?

This report sets out thoughts and ideas that started with a collective Green House discussion, and draws on different perspectives from our Climate Emergency conference held in September 2019. It explores how an emergency plan for the whole economy requires a shift in approach and thinking.



John Foster

The COVID bonus? – a dissenting note

John Foster's gas compares Covid and climate emergency issues and argues they are completely different, and the covid crisis is far easier to understand.



Rupert Read

“A National Scandal”: a timeline of the UK government’s response to the Coronavirus crisis.

A timeline examining the government's response to the coronavirus crisis.



Green House Think Tank

What now for Green Politics?

Online discussion on the future of the Green Movement with Rupert Read and John Foster



Anne Chapman

Wilding; the Return of Nature to a British Farm

Wilding raises two key issues. One is the challenge it poses to the established UK approach to nature conservation, and our approach to nature more generally. The other is whether we have more than enough food and should instead of producing food give land, such as that at Knepp over to Nature.