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

COVID-19 and Facing up to Climate Reality

We have now published four 'gases' on this theme and will hold an on-line discussion on Saturday 6th June..
This is what a real emergency looks like: what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency by John Barry 
From the COVID-19 Crisis to a Sustainable Economy: What progressive politics needs to do now by Reinhard Loske
​The COVID bonus? – a dissenting note by John Foster
Will COVID-19 help us tackle climate change?
By Anne Chapman
To take part in the discussion please register here.
What now for Green Politics? 
What would a serious Green political movement now be doing in face of the climate emergency? An on-line debate with Rupert Read and John Foster that took place on 24th April. You can download the 'chat' from this debate here.

Climate Jobs explainer 

Climate Emergency Conference
​Presentations, briefing papers and videos of this conference, held in London on 14th September 2019 are available here.  
Green Reads
Latest additions to our book review page: 
Prashant Vaze on Managing without Growth by Peter Victor;
Anne Chapman on Wilding by Isabella Tree;
Ray Cunningham on The Invention of Sustainability by Paul Warde.
By Green House People
Andrew Mearman has co-authored a paper with his 11- year old niece, Elsie Luna about her climate activism, Learning to Rebel .
Our new Core Group member, Robert Macgowan calls for time to be put at the heart of policital economy in this article in the Green European Journal. 
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.

Interviews with Green House

Recent publications

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.
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.
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Order The Post-Growth Project book.