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.
Progressive Politics: What is it, what is it for, and how do we get it?
Gas by Sara Parkin, Principal Associate of the Sustainability Literacy Project, and former Leader of the Green Party.
Facing up to Climate Reality: Introduction to the Project
This essay lays out the premises that shape the facing up to climate reality project undertaken by Greenhouse in 2017-18. The project addressed the widening chasm between climate science and climate policy, the reasons for it, and how to bridge it.
Towards Deep Hope: Climate Tragedy, Realism and Policy
What can climate change tells us about the place of humans in the world and what being realistic about our climate future entails? Escaping popular wicked-problem framing of issues, but building awareness into policy thinking can mean hope for reaching transformative change while remaining realistic
This Moment: the emergency, the opportunity
The climate situation must be declared and treated as a global emergency if we are to have any chance of responding appropriately. At present, on climate change, the UK government combines self-congratulation, disavowal, missed opportunities, incoherence and delay.
Ideas for a Radical Green Manifesto
Green politics is in practice about much more than politics – we need changes in economics, technology, attitudes, and cultures. That is why it is the most radical form of politics there is.
A critique of the RSA’s ‘Inclusive Growth Commission'
In the latest Green House Gas, Jonathan Essex and Rupert Read question some of the fundamental assumptions of the RSA Commission's work
Claims for a Decent Life and a True Democracy
John Blewitt explores the intellectual legacy of William Morris and Edward Carpenter, both of whom were active in the socialist movement in the late nineteenth century and are often seen to today as progenitors of the twentieth-century green movement.
The Green Case For A Progressive Pact: Debating the next election
This pamphlet looked at the case for a progressive alliance and how Greens could benefit. It includes contributions from Molly Scott Cato, Victor Anderson, Rupert Read, Jonathan Essex, and Sara Parkin.
Newer Times
Andy Pearmain's Newer Times takes up a generation later the idea of the famous Marxism Today ‘New Times’ thesis. Pearmain suggests that the coming of robotisation is going to fundamentally change the nature of our society and our politics.
An Assessment of Current Regulation of GMOs in the EU
Vesco Paskalev argues that the regulation of GMOs in the EU is a shambles. The main problem lies in a very narrow conception of risk and safety. Paskalev proposes specific legal amendments to remedy these faults.
Critiquing ‘Common Cause’
The authors each reflect and comment on the Common Cause report published in 2010
