Food and Farming
Agriculture is a sector where big changes are needed if we are going to achieve zero-carbon and restore nature. Green House contributors have written extensively on how what we eat and how our food is produced can be more sustainable and how to decarbonise the agriculture sector.
Bringing Back the Beaver, the story of one man's quest to rewild Britain's waterways.
Of all the animals that roamed these isles but have now disappeared many think that the beaver is the most important one to bring back. Like us, beavers are ecosystem engineers, modifying their habitats to suit themselves
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.
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.
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
This book examines the role of housing in the contemporary economy – one that it characterises as ‘residential capitalism’. How we got here is explained by historical accounts of land ownership, economic thought relating to land, UK housing supply and tenure, and mortgage finance.
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