Busting the bankers’ club
Andrew Mearman reviews Gerald Epstein’s book, 'Busting the bankers’ club: finance for the rest of us', which explores the power of bankers and financiers over everyday life, as well as those seeking to counteract it, and lays out some principles of finance for the common good.
Ravenous
George Ttoouli reviews Henry Dimbleby's 'Ravenous', finding it to be solidly-informed but insufficiently bold in its vision.
You Never Give Me Your Money
The COP29 conference is floundering with the usual tussle between the Global South asking for financial support to green their energy systems and the Global North pleading poverty. This article looks at some radical solutions for this impasse.
Beyond Drax: A Real Green Future for Yorkshire and the Humber
In this report we quantify and describe over 70,000 green jobs across various sectors in Yorkshire and the Humber over ten years. We propose a redirection of Drax subsidies towards this vision.
Changing the world with four MPs?
A response by John Foster to Rupert Read's piece on the Green Party's post-electoral options. It was presented to a fringe event at the Green Party Conference on 7th September 2024, at which Read also spoke.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
