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

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
Molly Scott Cato

Local Liquidity: From Ineffective Demand to Community Currencies

The report includes an authoritative account of the different types of local money that are in circulation across the world from Germany's hugely successful Chiemgauer to the currency issued by Banco Palmas in Brazil and Rotterdam's Nu-Spaarpas.



ReportsPublicationsFinance
Rupert Read

Strangled by the Duopoly

John Hare and Rupert Read’s new report argues that any discussion of party funding that does not examine the wider crisis of UK democracy – including questions of electoral system, participation-rates and corporate power – is an exercise in deckchair-rearrangement.



ReportsPublications
Brian Heatley

Joined up Economics

In this common sense account Brian Heatley uses real data to connect the UK’s economic performance to the wider environment, and through an analysis of the origins of inequality shows how the economy contributes to or undermines people’s happiness and security.



PublicationsReportsPost Growth ProjectFinance
Thomas Lines

Primary Commodity Prices and Global Food Security: Why farmers still struggle when food prices rise

In this report, commodities expert Thomas Lines shows what has really happened to food prices and farm incomes in recent years. Food prices have risen, but not faster than manufactures.



ReportsPublications
Anne Chapman

Greens and Science: Why the Green Movement is not anti-Science

Anne Chapman argues that the Green movement owes a great deal to science, and like scientists Greens tend to think that decisions should be made on the basis of rational arguments, by appeal to the evidence



ReportsPublicationsPrecautionary Principle
Rupert Read

How to relate ourselves to future people: justice or love?

Green House aims to stand with the oppressed of the world, against the system that oppresses them, with the dispossessed, with the victims of colonialism, with the new slaves, with all those whose suffering and dispossession are the faces of disaster triumphant upon the surface of this Earth.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Ray Cunningham

Reclaiming Sustainability

This essay draws heavily on the book ‘Die Entdeckung der Nachhaltigkeit’ by Ulrich Grober, published by Verlag Antje Kunstmann in 2010



Opinion PiecesPublications
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