Publications
Green House Think Tank publishes many different sorts of contribution to green politics. This includes the regulation publication of Reports, Gases, Green Reads and Newsletters, however have also published Books, Pamphlets, Consultation responses, and comms materials like flyers, posters, booklets and digital images.
Smaller but Better: Post-Growth Public Services
In this report Andrew Pearmain and Brian Heatley argue for a distinctively Green approach to public services which goes beyond simple opposition to austerity.
The Paradox of Green Keynesianism
The persistent economic recession and the need for a transition to green infrastructure and industrial systems has led many environmentalists to call for a form of Green Keynesianism. But how can this co-exist with the fundamental commitment amongst green economists to an end to economic growth?
The Fourth Sector
The economy Kent talks about is a nascent Fourth Sector – sitting along side existing private and state sectors, and those charitable and not-for-profit outfits sometimes dubbed the Third Sector.
Turn off Greenhouse gases at source
Gerry Wolff and Oliver Tickell propose a controlling upstream system for emissions which would give us greater simplicity and lower costs in administration, fewer anomalies, a smoother path for negotiations, and fewer opportunities for fraud
Strangled by the Duopoly
John Hare and Rupert Read’s new report argues that any discussion of party funding that does not examine the wider crisis of UK democracy – including questions of electoral system, participation-rates and corporate power – is an exercise in deckchair-rearrangement.
Greens and Science: Why the Green Movement is not anti-Science
Anne Chapman argues that the Green movement owes a great deal to science, and like scientists Greens tend to think that decisions should be made on the basis of rational arguments, by appeal to the evidence
Primary Commodity Prices and Global Food Security: Why farmers still struggle when food prices rise
In this report, commodities expert Thomas Lines shows what has really happened to food prices and farm incomes in recent years. Food prices have risen, but not faster than manufactures.
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.
Reclaiming Sustainability
This essay draws heavily on the book ‘Die Entdeckung der Nachhaltigkeit’ by Ulrich Grober, published by Verlag Antje Kunstmann in 2010
Guardians of the Future: A Constitutional Case for representing and protecting Future People
Rupert Read explores ensures that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice
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.