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Zaid Alasad

The Great British Pension Fiasco

The Great British Pension Fiasco unearths the uncomfortable truth about the very institutions entrusted with safeguarding the UK’s financial stability. This is a tale of the failed governance that paved the road to more austerity, stalling the green transition and gutting social investment.

Emma Dawnay

Briefing: Managing the UK Economy in times of the Climate Emergency

This briefing describes how the UK economy functions based on the works of many non-mainstream economists. It dispels the current economic orthodoxy of fiscal rules and taming inflation, shows banking is key for a thriving economy, and gives different options for funding public spending.

Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. But the possible is not fixed. What we believe is possible depends on our knowledge and beliefs about the world. Ideas can change the world, and Green House is about challenging the ideas that have created the world we live in now, and offering positive alternatives. The problems we face are systemic, and so the changes we need to make are complex and interconnected. Many of the critical analyses and policy prescriptions that will be part of the new paradigm are already out there. Our aim is to communicate them more clearly, and more widely.

Recent Publications

Zaid Alasad

The Great British Pension Fiasco

The Great British Pension Fiasco unearths the uncomfortable truth about the very institutions entrusted with safeguarding the UK’s financial stability. This is a tale of the failed governance that paved the road to more austerity, stalling the green transition and gutting social investment.



Emma Dawnay

Briefing: Managing the UK Economy in times of the Climate Emergency

This briefing describes how the UK economy functions based on the works of many non-mainstream economists. It dispels the current economic orthodoxy of fiscal rules and taming inflation, shows banking is key for a thriving economy, and gives different options for funding public spending.



Prashant Vaze

You Never Give Me Your Money

The COP29 conference is floundering with the usual tussle between the Global South asking for financial support to green their energy systems and the Global North pleading poverty. This article looks at some radical solutions for this impasse.



Latest Green Reads

Peter Sims

Ultra Processed People

Peter Sims reviews Chris van Tulleken book 'Ultra Processed People' published 2023. He concludes with nine fundamental lessons, which apply much more widely than the food sector. The books follows the money, cuts through the controversy and there will be something in it that surprises everyone.



Andrew Mearman

Busting the bankers’ club

Andrew Mearman reviews Gerald Epstein’s book, 'Busting the bankers’ club: finance for the rest of us', which explores the power of bankers and financiers over everyday life, as well as those seeking to counteract it, and lays out some principles of finance for the common good.



George Ttoouli

Ravenous

George Ttoouli reviews Henry Dimbleby's 'Ravenous', finding it to be solidly-informed but insufficiently bold in its vision.



Recent Posts

John Foster

Changing the world with four MPs?

A response by John Foster to Rupert Read's piece on the Green Party's post-electoral options. It was presented to a fringe event at the Green Party Conference on 7th September 2024, at which Read also spoke.



Green House Think Tank

Changing the world with four MPs?

Discussion Event with Rupert Read and John Foster chaired by Christina Coleman. Event is open to public and will take place at Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS, on Saturday 7th September at 3pm.



Green House Think Tank

Invitation to Reflect post General Election

Green House Think Tank is currently compiling feedback on the ways that Greens approached the 2024 General Election in the context of our current ecological and social predicament.



Jonathan Essex

Presentation: Why do green jobs plan need a different politics and economics?

Jonathan Essex speaks at the Greener Jobs Alliance AGM about why green jobs plans need different politics and economics.



John Foster

Review of 'Why Climate Breakdown Matters' Book

Green House Core Group member John Foster reviews Rupert Read's new book for Cambridge University Press.



Peter Sims

Geopolitics of Degrowth Interviews

Can a European Union that is the first to renounce economic growth still be a global player? This project initiates a conversation between critics of economic growth and progressive thinkers on foreign and security policy. Green House think tank collaborated as a partner to this project led by the Green



Nadine Storey

A Green Vision for English Devolution

Whilst recognising the limitations of the current system of English devolution, should the Green Party also take the opportunity to propose a radical alternative vision for devolution?



Andrew Mearman

Embedding sustainability in the economics curriculum

Green House Core Group member Andrew Mearman has co-written a new version of a chapter in the Handbook for Economics Lecturers, created by the Economics Network.



Green House Think Tank

Event: The Geopolitics of Degrowth

Join us in London or online on 17th Oct 2023 for another informative debate in our ongoing exploration of the geopolitics of a post-growth Europe!