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Rupert Read

Reinventing Politics: Some Post-Electoral Thoughts For The Conservatives

This piece by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh (co-Directors of the Climate Majority Project), with a companion piece addressed to Labour and Read’s earlier piece on the Green Party, form a series reflecting on the new UK political situation from the perspective of Green House’s interests and concerns.



Rupert Read

Reinventing politics: some post-electoral thoughts for labour

This piece by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh (co-Directors of the Climate Majority Project), with companion pieces addressed to the Conservatives and (by Read) to the Green Party, form a series reflecting on the new UK political situation from the perspective of Green House’s interests and concerns.



Nadine Storey

Post 2024 General Election Survey - Analysis

The Green House 2024 general election survey highlights big questions for Green Parties around their purpose and differentiation from other political parties, how to represent increasingly diverse views and how to model the society they wish to see through their own internal governance systems.



Paula Hunt

Spinning plates: balancing pressures for nutrition and planet

How should the UK's Eatwell Guide be brought up to date, incorporating sustainability as well as health considerations?



Gareth Wyn Jones

The Many Dimensions of Energy

Gareth Wyn Jones, Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, formerly Director, Centre for Arid Zone Studies and Chief Scientist, Countryside Council for Wales, argues that humanity's over-use of energy as such, rather than simply its reliance on fossil fuels, drives global warming and much else.



Green House Think Tank

Changing the world with four MPs?

Discussion Event with Rupert Read and John Foster chaired by Christina Coleman. Event is open to public and will take place at Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS, on Saturday 7th September at 3pm.



Rupert Read

The true power of the Green Party is now: to admit our own powerlessness to ‘save the world’

How to parlay four MPs into a genuinely transformative response to the climate and ecological emergency? A prominent Green thinker offers a challenging proposal.



Green House Think Tank

Invitation to Reflect post General Election

Green House Think Tank is currently compiling feedback on the ways that Greens approached the 2024 General Election in the context of our current ecological and social predicament.



Peter Sims

How to Hide an Empire

Peter Sims reviews Daniel Immerwahr's book, 'How to Hide an Empire'. A tour of US imperialism, how it happened, how it shapes our world today, and implications for how we respond to our global predicament (particularly the threat of climate change).



Green House Think Tank

Climate Emergency: Economics, Politics, Honesty

This Framing Paper by Jonathan Essex on behalf of Green House Think Tank outlines areas of focus for our forthcoming project. Green House is grappling with what this all means in practice and welcomes contributions and collaboration.



Jonathan Essex

Presentation: Why do green jobs plan need a different politics and economics?

Jonathan Essex speaks at the Greener Jobs Alliance AGM about why green jobs plans need different politics and economics.



John Foster

Review of 'Why Climate Breakdown Matters' Book

Green House Core Group member John Foster reviews Rupert Read's new book for Cambridge University Press.