Gases

Gases or 'Green House Gases' are essays published by Green House Think Tank which explore a particular, usually topical issue or subject.

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.



Ray Cunningham

Reclaiming Sustainability

This essay draws heavily on the book ‘Die Entdeckung der Nachhaltigkeit’ by Ulrich Grober, published by Verlag Antje Kunstmann in 2010



Brian Heatley

Ministers shouldn’t boast about Kyoto, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen

Environment Ministers from around the world are gathering in Rio for the Earth Summit. They will share platitudes and congratulate each other for shifting the debate about climate change into one about green growth.



Molly Scott Cato

Defensive Localism or Creative Localisation?

In this article Scott Cato addresses some of the issues raised by the Localism Bill



Andrew Pearmain

The Political Economy of ‘Progressive Austerity’

Can there be anything ‘progressive’ about austerity? Does capitalist crisis always have to be resolved anti-socially, with mass unemployment and impoverishment, and on political terms which favour the right? Our most recent history is not encouraging.