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Green House Think Tank
Anne Chapman

Farming for Nature - Bill and Cath Grayson, Morecambe Bay Conservation Grazing Company

An interview with Cath and Bill Grayson who run Morecambe Bay Conservation Grazing Company in North West England about how they came to do conservation grazing, what makes it different from how beef and lamb are normally produced and its benefits for wildlife.



Anne Chapman

A Just Transition in Agriculture

The agriculture industry has transformed in the last 70 years. 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.



Peter Sims

Infrastructure Requirements for Zero Carbon

This report focuses on the freight transportation, aviation and steel sectors, which, combined with cement and plastic production. To ensure Sufficient Action is being taken, our society must target the rates of change required for a rapid transition to zero carbon.



Emma Dawnay

Basic Income and Sovereign Money: The Alternative to Economic Crisis and Austerity Policy

Crocker makes the proposal that the state should create the money to bridge the gap –debt free– and give it to all citizens. This would solve the problem that the economic system has by handing people a basic income, and at the same time it solves the main argument that it would be too expensive



Jonathan Essex

A Green New Deal for Gatwick

Many job opportunities near Gatwick are at the airport or in associated sectors. Covid-19 brought an almost complete cessation of flying, with a slow regrowth likely to take years to return to prior levels. Contemplation of a different future for workers across the Gatwick region has become urgent



Anne Chapman

Bringing Back the Beaver, the story of one man's quest to rewild Britain's waterways.

Of all the animals that roamed these isles but have now disappeared many think that the beaver is the most important one to bring back. Like us, beavers are ecosystem engineers, modifying their habitats to suit themselves



Anne Chapman

Food and Climate Change without the hot air

Bridle shows the emissions from various components of the meals she discusses. The book gives options for things we might eat and drink for breakfast, lunch, snacks and evening meal. She highlights foods that have the greatest climate impacts and suggests how meals can be tweaked to reduce emissions



Green House Think Tank

Achieving zero carbon trade, investment and industry

At this online event some of the results from Green House's report Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon were presented, plus there were presentations by other partners in the Green European Foundation, Climate Emergency Economy project.



Green House Think Tank

Blockers and enablers for decarbonizing the Dutch energy intensive industry

This online conference follows successful events last year on Climate Jobs and a Just Transition and Climate Emergency – Raising Ambition.



Peter Sims

Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon

This report proposes a much-needed toolkit to help policy makers face up to climate reality and address the wider environmental impacts and the imbalances of power and wealth that underlie our global trade



Maya de Souza

Urban Planning Hong Kong Style: the High-Rise Way Rethinking our Vision of Sustainable Cities

The aim of this report is to encourage greater consideration of high-rise, high-density cities as a strategy for ensuring climate-resilient and low carbon living.



Rupert Read

Extinction Rebellion: Insights From The Inside

This book is written by Rupert Read, founding member and former chair of Green House Think Tank