Green  House is a think tank founded in 2011.  It aims to lead the development of green thinking in the UK. ​ Read more about Green House

Facing up to Climate Reality, Honesty, Disaster and Hope, edited by John Foster

This, our latest book, is noavailable to order w  here.  It takes as its starting point the fact that the climate crisis is going to get much worse whatever we now do. The book explores what this means and how we might be able to confront escalating climate chaos while not giving up hope.   READ MORE

Interviews with Green House

Green House responses

We have recently submitted evidence to the Committee on Climate Change call for evidence on Building a Zero-carbon Economy.  To read click here.

By Green House people 

​After the IPCC report, #climatereality, A friendly critique of Bendell’s ‘Deep adaptation’ paper
Rupert Read takes issues with  Jim Bendell's claim that near term societal collapse is now inevitable.
This Civilisation is Finished: So What is to be Done? 
​Talk by Rupert Read at Churchill College, Cambridge on 7th November 2018, as part of the 'Shed A Light' series.
I won't go on the BBC if it supplies climate change deniers as 'balance'
Green House chair Rupert Read explains why he said no to a BBC interview.  This led to a joint letter followed by the BBC issuing new guidance for editors.

Green Reads

Latest additions to our book review page: 
a review by John Foster of The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells and Victor Anderson's review of The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene,
by Simon L Lewis and Mark A Maslin. 

Recent publications

Unlocking the  Job Potential of Zero Carbon
by Anne Chapman, Jonathan Essex and Peter Sims
​This is the report of the Climate Jobs work that we did in 2018, published by the Green European Foundation with the support of Green House.
Community Energy in the UK,
by Anne Chapman,
published by the Green European Foundation with the support of Green House, this tells the story of the ups and downs of community energy over the last 20 years.
In November 2018 we published two new gases as part of our Facing up to Climate Reality project:
Conflicted about Emotions: Ecological Grief, Love and Truth
By Nadine Andrews
‘Official! – climate change is real’.  Now: what is to be done?
by John Foster​​
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