You Never Give Me Your Money – Funding the Energy Transition in the Global South
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.
Beyond Drax: A Real Green Future for Yorkshire and the Humber
In this report we quantify and describe over 70,000 green jobs across various sectors in Yorkshire and the Humber over ten years. We propose a redirection of Drax subsidies towards this vision.
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.
Beyond Drax: A Real Green Future for Yorkshire and the Humber
In this report we quantify and describe over 70,000 green jobs across various sectors in Yorkshire and the Humber over ten years. We propose a redirection of Drax subsidies towards this vision.
Reinventing Politics: Some Post-Electoral Thoughts For The Conservatives
This piece by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh (co-Directors of the Climate Majority Project), with a companion piece addressed to Labour and Read’s earlier piece on the Green Party, form a series reflecting on the new UK political situation from the perspective of Green House’s interests and concerns.
Reinventing politics: some post-electoral thoughts for labour
This piece by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh (co-Directors of the Climate Majority Project), with companion pieces addressed to the Conservatives and (by Read) to the Green Party, form a series reflecting on the new UK political situation from the perspective of Green House’s interests and concerns.
How to Hide an Empire
Peter Sims reviews Daniel Immerwahr's book, 'How to Hide an Empire'. A tour of US imperialism, how it happened, how it shapes our world today, and implications for how we respond to our global predicament (particularly the threat of climate change).
You Never Give Me Your Money – Funding the Energy Transition in the Global South
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Review of 'Why Climate Breakdown Matters' Book
Green House Core Group member John Foster reviews Rupert Read's new book for Cambridge University Press.
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
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?
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.