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Green Jobs in Cumbria

A report on The Potential for Green Jobs in Cumbria, that includes estimates of jobs made using our climate jobs model, has now been published by Cumbria Action for Sustainability.  You can download the report here.

New Green House reports

The Social and Environmental Requirements of a Climate Emergency Economy
Our economy is not currently zero carbon, stable or sustainable, even in economic terms. What interventions are required to deliver the rapid transition required? What must these interventions achieve and how should these requirements be defined? This report explores measures introduced in Green House’s Zero Carbon Policy Toolkit.

The report is part of Green House think tanks collaborative Climate Emergency Economy project with the Green European Foundation. 

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A Just Transition in Agriculture
​Like post-industrial areas agricultural communities have suffered from substantial declines in jobs and losses of what formerly held them together. There is a danger that, feeling ignored by seemingly prosperous cities, those in rural communities who have lost out turn to political extremists who at least to give them someone to blame for their plight, in the way that many in rural America turned to Trump in 2016. The decimation of agricultural communities is therefore something that we should all be concerned about. Agriculture needs a just transition as much as coal mining communities do, but whereas there is no future for coal mines in a zero-carbon world, there has to be a future for agriculture. 
This report looks at the destructive impacts of modern farming and two ways forward to restore nature, the health of soil and farming livelihoods: regenerative ​agriculture and 'farming for nature'.  READ MORE

New Gas by Reinhard Loske

The Economisation of Nature and its Services; The path to salvation or the wrong track? is a translation by Ray Cunningham of an article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.  Professor Loske takes a critical view of the 'economisation of nature' as epitomised by the recently published Dasgupta Review.

Recent publications

A proposal for restricting manipulative advertising in public spaces
Peter Sims - January 2021
​The report outlines for discussion a comprehensive proposal for changing the way advertising is regulated and explores the consequences. The proposal would mean that most of the advertising to which the public is exposed becomes primarily informative. Exposure to subconscious marketing would become the exception people opt into, rather than the norm that is difficult, if not impossible, to opt out of.​

The Economisation of Nature and its Services; The path to salvation or the wrong track? 
by Reinhard Loske
A translation by Ray Cunningham of an article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.  Professor Loske takes a critical view of the 'economisation of nature' as epitomised by the recently published Dasgupta Review.

Infrastructure Requirements for Zero Carbon​: Why we can’t build our way out of the climate emergency
By Peter Sims and Jonathan Essex, December 2020
This report explores how incompatible our society’s current and planned infrastructure is with the rapid decarbonisation of the UK economy needed to deliver on the climate emergency. 

A Green New Deal for Gatwick
A joint report with the PCS Union and Green New Deal UK, November 2020
This report looks at the potential for those who have lost their jobs at Gatwick Airport and the surrounding area as a result of the pandemic to be redeployed in green jobs.  Find out more here.

Green Reads

Latest additions to our book review page: 

• Anne Chapman on English Pastoral, An Inheritance, by James Rebanks.
• Bram van de Glind on Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, by Jason Hickel
• Emma Dawnay on Basic Income and Sovereign Money by Geoff Crocker.
• Anne Chapman on Bringing Back the Beaver and Food and Climate Change without the hot air.
• Absolute Zero Carbon Britain a review by Jonathan Essex of reports by the Centre for Alternative Technology and UK FIRES. 
• Anne Chapman on Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown,

By Green House People

Anne Chapman on Cumbria and green jobs in Left Foot Forward.

A book by our former chair, Rupert Read, on the history and present state of Extinction Rebellion from its inception in 2018 until the COVID-19 pandemic, has been published by the Simplicity Institute. Extinction Rebellion: Insights From The Inside  is available to download for free (or pay what one wishes) here.  A print version is also available see here..

Andrew Mearman has co-authored a paper with his 11- year old goddaughter, Elsie Luna about her climate activism, Learning to Rebel .

Jonathan Essex was a co-author of a report for Catherine Rowett, MEP for the East of England, published in January 2020, Energising the East: An energy transformation plan for the climate emergency

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