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

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
Brian Heatley

Ministers shouldn’t boast about Kyoto, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen

Environment Ministers from around the world are gathering in Rio for the Earth Summit. They will share platitudes and congratulate each other for shifting the debate about climate change into one about green growth.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Molly Scott Cato

Green Economy Inquiry: Environmental Audit Committee

Green House's response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the Green Economy.



PublicationsResponses
Molly Scott Cato

Mutual Security in a Sustainable Economy

Molly Scott Cato and Brian Heatley argue that welfare needs to be reconsider in the light of a sustainable economy.



ReportsPublications
Andrew Dobson

Sustainability Citizenship

Dobson argues that government obsession with financial incentives, or with the politics of nudging people to do the right thing, is undermining the creation of an ethically-based sustainability citizenship. And it is only with the latter that we will make long-term changes to how we live.



ReportsPublications
Thomas Lines

The Dog that Didn't Bark

Lines looks at the 28 years following the Second World War when there were no such crises. He concludes that we need to reduce the interconnections between banks by introducing severe restrictions on interbank lending and derivatives trading, and reintroducing exchange controls



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