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 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.

Future Cities: Rethinking tomorrow

Presentations from and the recording of this online discussion event on 23 March 2021 are, or will soon be available here.

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

A Just Transition in Agriculture
​A new report by Anne Chapman of Green House, published by the Green European Foundation, as part of their transnational project, Just Transition, carried out with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.
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
A proposal for restricting manipulative advertising in public spaces
January 2021
​The report by Peter Sims 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.​

Recent publications

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.
Preparing for the Improbable, ​
by John Foster
An extended review of Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside, by Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander and
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century, by  Andreas Malm available to download as a pdf on our 'Gases' page and as a Green Read.
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.
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

Green Reads

Latest additions to our book review page: 
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
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
Listen to the audio of our London launch event.
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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