Reality and Opportunity - Events October 2022
Join Rethinking Demand Project Events in Dublin, Belfast and online across Europe. These events are collaboration between the Green European Foundation, Green House Think Tank (UK), Green Foundation Ireland, and Etopia (Belgium).
A Just Transition in Britain: 'Actually existing regionalisms'
To mark the UK launch [https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/book-launch-a-european-just-transition-for-a-better-world/] of our new book with the Green European Foundation, 'A European Just Transition for a Better World’, we are delighted to publish the winning entry to our Just Transition essay competition, by Matthew Hull. A Just Transition in Britain:
Green Party Conference 2022
Green House will host a fringe event and stall at Green Party Conference [https://www.greenparty.org.uk/conference/] in Harrogate on 30th September to 2nd October. Come and say hello! Fringe event (Friday 30th September, 15:15-16:30) The return of the workers: Agitating for a just transition Green
Event: Confronting Climate Crisis - Where is the New Normal?
Green House will host journalist Zoe Williams, climate scientist Kevin Anderson and Profressor Rupert Read at this central London event on the evening of Wednesday 23rd November.
Rethinking Demand
Project Launch. The Climate Emergency Economy project in 2022 will focusing on rethinking demand for energy and materials.
Finance-based transition solutions: approach with caution
Andrew presents the fundamental criticisms made by economists Clive Spash and Frédéric Hache of the influential Dasgupta Review of the economics of biodiversity. Whether or not these criticisms are persuasive, their review points to significant dangers lurking in the financialisation of Nature.
Book launch: A European Just Transition for a Better World
Join us for drinks and discussion at the UK launch of our new book, 'A European Just Transition for a Better World', at Bookmarks bookshop.
Thicker than Water
Anne Chapman reviews Thicker than Water: the Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis by Erica Cirino (Island Press, 2021).
Rethinking consumerism
In this extended review article, John Foster considers some recent thinking on living within limits, and discusses the implications for Green House’s current ‘Rethinking Demand’ project.
Just Transition essay competition
*Deadline for entries extended to 24th July* Green House and the Green European Foundation are pleased to launch an essay competition for students and young writers, on the political potential of the just transition in the UK. A prize of £500 is available for the winning pitch to be developed
Difficult Women – A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Zoe Wide reviews Helen Lewis book 'Difficult Women – A History of Feminism in 11 Fights' (published 2021). She particularly explores what the present climate movement can learn from feminism’s past.
A European Just Transition for a Better World
Green House has contributed two chapters to a new book published this week, A European Just Transition for a Better World. We were partners in this Green European Foundation transnational project tackling the question of a Just Transition – transforming from an extractive to a regenerative economy in a just and
