Sinister Interest - Reforming the Media
This polemical pamphlet is a significant contribution to the current debate about what needs to be done if democracy is to flourish in a world of ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’.
A Green Transition for the Isle of Wight
This report is a case study using the Isle of Wight to develop a model to estimate the number of jobs that would be created by the transition of key sectors of the economy.
Meat, a Benign Extravagance
Fairlie brings several decades of practical experience of farming, a critical quantitative approach and whole systems thinking. He does not defend our current industrialised systems of livestock farming and he is clear that, collectively, we need to eat less meat
Progressive Politics: What is it, what is it for, and how do we get it?
Gas by Sara Parkin, Principal Associate of the Sustainability Literacy Project, and former Leader of the Green Party.
Facing up to Climate Reality: Introduction to the Project
This essay lays out the premises that shape the facing up to climate reality project undertaken by Greenhouse in 2017-18. The project addressed the widening chasm between climate science and climate policy, the reasons for it, and how to bridge it.
Towards Deep Hope: Climate Tragedy, Realism and Policy
What can climate change tells us about the place of humans in the world and what being realistic about our climate future entails? Escaping popular wicked-problem framing of issues, but building awareness into policy thinking can mean hope for reaching transformative change while remaining realistic
This Moment: the emergency, the opportunity
The climate situation must be declared and treated as a global emergency if we are to have any chance of responding appropriately. At present, on climate change, the UK government combines self-congratulation, disavowal, missed opportunities, incoherence and delay.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics has a catchy title, appealing diagrams and has attracted some extravagant praise; George Monbiot has called her the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century. Is Monbiot right?
The Production of Money Ann Pettifor
There is a limited supply of natural resources, human creativity and skills, but not of money. Pettifor takes economic ideas from Keynes and Polanyi.
Ideas for a Radical Green Manifesto
Green politics is in practice about much more than politics – we need changes in economics, technology, attitudes, and cultures. That is why it is the most radical form of politics there is.
A critique of the RSA’s ‘Inclusive Growth Commission'
In the latest Green House Gas, Jonathan Essex and Rupert Read question some of the fundamental assumptions of the RSA Commission's work
Claims for a Decent Life and a True Democracy
John Blewitt explores the intellectual legacy of William Morris and Edward Carpenter, both of whom were active in the socialist movement in the late nineteenth century and are often seen to today as progenitors of the twentieth-century green movement.
