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

New Green House reports

A proposal for restricting manipulative advertising in public spaces
Jan 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.​

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. It focuses on three key sectors: freight transport, aviation and steel, and considers what changes are required to bring these into line with zero carbon goals, using the ‘blockers and enablers’ toolkit introduced in Green House’s August 2020 report.

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.

A Just Transition in Agriculture

This is an ongoing project we are working on with the Green European Foundation.  We have now produced two videos of case studies.  See here.

COVID-19 and Facing up to Climate Reality

The recording of our on-line discussion, with John Barry, Anne Chapman, John Foster, and Reinhard Loske held on 6th June is now available.  Your can download the papers and see information about speakers here.  

Since the discussion we have published two new gases on this theme:
The UK government economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic:
Three possible lessons for climate emergency planning by Andrew Mearman
Building Back Differently: A Climate Emergency Recovery from COVID-19
by Jonathan Essex

Recent publications

Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon
By Peter Sims and Jonathan Essex - August 2020
This report analyses UK trade data to explore the carbon impacts of the UK’s trade and introduces ‘Blockers and Enablers’ policy toolkit.

Urban Planning Hong Kong Style: the High-Rise Way
Rethinking our Vision of Sustainable Cities
By Maya de Souza - August 2020

Another Brexit is possible  
Strategy for Brexit in the era of COVID-19 and climate chaos:
Build resilience and security through greater national self-sufficiency together with global cooperation
By Rupert Read and Emma Dawnay

What would a UK climate emergency plan that faces up to climate reality look like? 
By Jonathan Essex

Extinction, rebellion and Extinction Rebellion, ​by John Foster - an extended review of two recent publications by Rupert Read and one by Roger Hallam, available to download as a pdf on our 'Gases' page and as a Green Read.

A Green New Deal for Gatwick
A joint report with the PCS Union and Green New Deal UK, November 2020

Green Reads

Latest additions to our book review page: 

• Jonathan Essex on Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
• 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

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..

Presentation on Climate Resilient Communities by Nadine Andrews for the online event, Designing for a Changing Climate, 12 June 2020.

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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This, our latest book, is available to order 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
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In late 2019 Green House adopted a strategy for taking forward our work on facing up to climate reality.  You can download it here.

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​Presentations, briefing papers and videos of this conference, held in London on 14th September 2019 are available here.  

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