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

Jonathan Essex

How to Make Do and Mend our Economy

This report is about how ‘building’ a post-growth future cannot take for granted building in the literal sense: building comes at a huge ecological cost and tends to drive up consumption in all other areas.



Post Growth ProjectPublicationsReports
Alex Warleigh-Lack

Greening the EU

Is the EU just for capitalists? Can it really help in the transition to a sustainable way of life? Warleigh-Lack concludes with 5 suggested priorities for Green politicians within the EU



ReportsPublicationsPost Growth Project
Molly Scott Cato

Imagining Diversity: Moving from Monopoly Money to a Multi-Layer Currency World

In this gas, Molly Scott Cato explores the role of local currencies in reviving local economies, and examines national currency. She suggests we use the Euro as a common rather than a single currency



Opinion PiecesPublicationsFinance
Jonathan Essex

Inquiry into Green Finance by the Environmental Audit Committee

In our evidence, written by Molly Scott Cato and Jonathan Essex, we suggested using an Energy Return on Energy Invested measure to assess whether an investment is green, and a much greater emphasis on public and co-operative financing of green infrastructure.



ResponsesPublicationsFinance
Brian Heatley

Smaller but Better: Post-Growth Public Services

In this report Andrew Pearmain and Brian Heatley argue for a distinctively Green approach to public services which goes beyond simple opposition to austerity.



ReportsPublicationsPost Growth Project
Molly Scott Cato

The Paradox of Green Keynesianism

The persistent economic recession and the need for a transition to green infrastructure and industrial systems has led many environmentalists to call for a form of Green Keynesianism. But how can this co-exist with the fundamental commitment amongst green economists to an end to economic growth?



PublicationsReportsPost Growth Project
Green House Think Tank

The Fourth Sector

The economy Kent talks about is a nascent Fourth Sector – sitting along side existing private and state sectors, and those charitable and not-for-profit outfits sometimes dubbed the Third Sector.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Green House Think Tank

Turn off Greenhouse gases at source

Gerry Wolff and Oliver Tickell propose a controlling upstream system for emissions which would give us greater simplicity and lower costs in administration, fewer anomalies, a smoother path for negotiations, and fewer opportunities for fraud



Opinion PiecesPublications
Green House Think Tank

Britain's Disappearing Nuclear Power

David Toke discusses nuclear power in the United Kingdom



PublicationsOpinion Pieces
Rupert Read

Guardians of the Future: A Constitutional Case for representing and protecting Future People

Rupert Read explores ensures that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice



PublicationsReports
Molly Scott Cato

Free universities! Re-configuring the Finance and Governance Models of the UK Higher Education Sector

In this paper, Cato argues that there are wider motives behind the increasing marketisation of the higher education system, and drawing on experience in a number of other countries, argues that there are alternatives which would do much less damage to the basic ideals of higher education



ReportsPublicationsFinance
Mike Hannis

Offsetting Nature?: Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System

Hannis and Sullivan argue that by encouraging us to think that one bit of nature is much like another, biodiversity offsetting undermines the unique place-based relationships between people and nature, moving us further away from ecological sustainability.



PublicationsReportsFinance
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