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.

Molly Scott Cato

Free universities! Re-configuring the Finance and Governance Models of the UK Higher Education Sector

In this paper, Cato argues that there are wider motives behind the increasing marketisation of the higher education system, and drawing on experience in a number of other countries, argues that there are alternatives which would do much less damage to the basic ideals of higher education



Molly Scott Cato

Local Liquidity: From Ineffective Demand to Community Currencies

The report includes an authoritative account of the different types of local money that are in circulation across the world from Germany's hugely successful Chiemgauer to the currency issued by Banco Palmas in Brazil and Rotterdam's Nu-Spaarpas.



Brian Heatley

Joined up Economics

In this common sense account Brian Heatley uses real data to connect the UK’s economic performance to the wider environment, and through an analysis of the origins of inequality shows how the economy contributes to or undermines people’s happiness and security.



Mike Hannis

Offsetting Nature?: Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System

Hannis and Sullivan argue that by encouraging us to think that one bit of nature is much like another, biodiversity offsetting undermines the unique place-based relationships between people and nature, moving us further away from ecological sustainability.



Molly Scott Cato

Green Economy Inquiry: Environmental Audit Committee

Green House's response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the Green Economy.



Andrew Dobson

Sustainability Citizenship

Dobson argues that government obsession with financial incentives, or with the politics of nudging people to do the right thing, is undermining the creation of an ethically-based sustainability citizenship. And it is only with the latter that we will make long-term changes to how we live.



Molly Scott Cato

Mutual Security in a Sustainable Economy

Molly Scott Cato and Brian Heatley argue that welfare needs to be reconsider in the light of a sustainable economy.



Thomas Lines

The Dog that Didn't Bark

Lines looks at the 28 years following the Second World War when there were no such crises. He concludes that we need to reduce the interconnections between banks by introducing severe restrictions on interbank lending and derivatives trading, and reintroducing exchange controls



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.