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Green House Think Tank
Green House Think Tank

Moderate Flank

Green House has endorsed the new Moderate Flank initiative or 'Climate Majority Project'.



John Foster

Do You Want to Know the Truth?

John Foster reviews Rupert Read's 2022 book, written for all who find themselves confronted, in the stark glare of climate truth, by Lenin’s famous question: what is to be done?



Emma Dawnay

Is the Green Book fit for purpose in a climate emergency?

Recommendations from a round table discussion which took place in Autumn 2022. The Green Book, is produced by HM Treasury (HMT), and sets out how to assess public sector projects or policy interventions to ensure that projects give value for money.



Prashant Vaze

The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

Account of the environmental crisis caused by capitalist firms and European empires



Jonathan Essex

Heating and Cooling of Buildings

This Policy Briefing applies recommendations of the Rethinking Energy Demand framing report to the heating and cooling of buildings. It outlines the current context, the need to reduce the number of buildings heated and the amount of heating and cooling needed within them.



Anne Chapman

Building Community Food Webs

Anne Chapman review 'Building Community Food Webs' by Ken Meter (Island Press , 2021).



Robert Magowan

A Climate of Disruption

The inevitable upheaval as the consequence of our regime of accumulation is well and truly upon us. Today, every aspect of our daily lives seem to be unravelling. How can we exist in an age of multiple escalating forms of disruption? Can we envisage ways to work with and through that disruption?



Jonathan Essex

Rethinking Energy Demand

Framing Report published in collaboration with Green European Foundation - If industrialised European societies are to reach zero carbon on a timescale compatible with limiting climate change, they must significantly reduce their energy demand. This will disrupt business-as-usual.



Anne Chapman

A Just Transition in Agriculture Podcasts

A Just Transition in Agriculture podcasts - four part series



Green House Think Tank

Reality and Opportunity - Events October 2022

Join Rethinking Demand Project Events in Dublin, Belfast and online across Europe. These events are collaboration between the Green European Foundation, Green House Think Tank (UK), Green Foundation Ireland, and Etopia (Belgium).



Robert Magowan

A Just Transition in Britain: 'Actually existing regionalisms'

To mark the UK launch [https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/book-launch-a-european-just-transition-for-a-better-world/] of our new book with the Green European Foundation, 'A European Just Transition for a Better World’, we are delighted to publish the winning entry to our Just Transition essay competition, by Matthew Hull. A Just Transition in Britain: 'Actually



Robert Magowan

Green Party Conference 2022

Green House will host a fringe event and stall at Green Party Conference [https://www.greenparty.org.uk/conference/] in Harrogate on 30th September to 2nd October. Come and say hello! Fringe event (Friday 30th September, 15:15-16:30) The return of the workers: Agitating for a just transition Green