Publications

Green House publishes:

Reports - Containing recommendations
Pamphlets - Longer essays, or sometimes a collection of essays by different people
Opinion Pieces - (formerly 'Gases') Shorter essays which look at a topical issue
Books - Which are sometimes collections of other work
Surveys - Analysis of survey responses

Green House also submits evidence to inquiries and responded to consultations or reports produced by other people. These are available on our Responses page.

Decisions on whether to publish material are taken by the Green House Core Group. However, the views expressed are those of the authors not of Green House as an organisation.


Publications Publications and Events

Ray Cunningham

Can Greens be part of a broad Anti-Austerity Front in Europe?

Green House coordinator Ray Cunningham argues in this Gas that Greens should beware of the temptation to enter into political alliances based on opposition to austerity alone.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Green House Think Tank

CapGlobalCarbon

A proposal for non-governmental actors to create a new independent global system as a back-up to the inter-governmental negotiations to make sure the reductions in global carbon emissions required by climate science are achieved



Opinion PiecesPublications
Maya de Souza

Tackling our Housing Crisis: why building more houses will not solve the problem

This report challenges the conventional policy wisdom of ‘just build more homes.’ It argues that the most significant cause of the affordability problem is not shortage of supply but a high level of inequality combined with a dysfunctional financial system.



Post Growth ProjectReportsPublicationsFinance
Victor Anderson

Growth, Capitalism and the 'Green Economy': a response to Bill Blackwell

A response to Bill Blackwell’s ‘Why do capitalist economies need to grow?’



Opinion PiecesPublications
Green House Think Tank

Why do capitalist economies need to grow?

Bill Blackwater in this gas explores the topic of capitalist economic growth



Opinion PiecesPublications
John Blewitt

The Post-Growth Project: How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow.



BooksPublicationsPost Growth Project
Ray Cunningham

What’s the point of the EU? The World War I Centenary and the myth of the EU’s ‘peace mission’

Ray Cunningham explores the role, history and potential of the EU in this gas.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Thomas Lines

A Shorter Leash: Ideas for reforming the banking sector

In Lines' gas, he examines the banking sector and how it can be reformed to meet the actual needs of the economy, rather than the private interests of banks and their directors



Opinion PiecesPublicationsFinance
Green House Think Tank

When businessmen fear growth

Hugh Small's gas exploring the topic of economic growth



Opinion PiecesPublications
Rupert Read

Post-growth Common sense: Political Communications for the Future

How should we describe the post-growth economy? Where is the term or frame that we are looking for? That was the central appointed task of this report.



Post Growth ProjectReportsPublications
Molly Scott Cato

Can't Pay, Won't Pay: Debt, the Myth of Austerity and the Failure of Green Investment

There is a false consensus around austerity, which prevents investment into supporting a sustainable economy. This report proposes establishing a Citizen's Audit to explore debt, its consequences and alternatives to repayment.



Post Growth ProjectReportsPublicationsFinance
Andrew Dobson

The Politics of Post-Growth

A post-growth world is inevitable. More technically, there is no evidence for the possibility of the absolute decoupling of economic growth and environmental degradation. The question is: will the post-growth world be unplanned or planned, catastrophic or benign?



Post Growth ProjectReportsPublications
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