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

Peter Sims

Trade and Investment Requirements for Zero Carbon

This report proposes a much-needed toolkit to help policy makers face up to climate reality and address the wider environmental impacts and the imbalances of power and wealth that underlie our global trade



Climate Emergency EconomyPublicationsReports
Maya de Souza

Urban Planning Hong Kong Style: the High-Rise Way Rethinking our Vision of Sustainable Cities

The aim of this report is to encourage greater consideration of high-rise, high-density cities as a strategy for ensuring climate-resilient and low carbon living.



PublicationsReports
Rupert Read

Extinction Rebellion: Insights From The Inside

This book is written by Rupert Read, founding member and former chair of Green House Think Tank



Publications
Emma Dawnay

Another Brexit is Possible

This report considers that the option of remaining in close alignment with the EU is too politically difficult to achieve. Having made this assumption, it argues that the only viable option is building national resilience through more localisation combined with deeper global cooperation.



ReportsPublicationsBrexit
Jonathan Essex

Building Back Differently: A Climate Emergency Recovery from COVID-19

Jonathan Essex's gas examines the lessons we need to draw from the covid crisis in order to rebuild and ensure an equitable recovery from this crisis.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Andrew Mearman

The UK government economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Three possible lessons for climate emergency planning

This gas looks at government economic policy. Could there be a radically different role for the state?



Opinion PiecesPublications
Jonathan Essex

What would a UK climate emergency plan that faces up to climate reality look like?

This report sets out thoughts and ideas that started with a collective Green House discussion, and draws on different perspectives from our Climate Emergency conference held in September 2019. It explores how an emergency plan for the whole economy requires a shift in approach and thinking.



PublicationsReports
John Foster

The COVID bonus? – a dissenting note

John Foster's gas compares Covid and climate emergency issues and argues they are completely different, and the covid crisis is far easier to understand.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Anne Chapman

Will COVID-19 help us tackle climate change?

This 'gas' discusses three of these possible changes, two of which may be positive for tackling the climate crisis and one negative, before going on to outline some similarities and differences between climate change and COVID-19.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Rupert Read

“A National Scandal”: a timeline of the UK government’s response to the Coronavirus crisis.

A timeline examining the government's response to the coronavirus crisis.



Precautionary PrinciplePublications
John Barry

This is what a real emergency looks like: what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency

John Barry, a member of Green House’s advisory group, considers what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency.



Opinion PiecesPublications
Reinhard Loske

From the COVID-19 Crisis to a Sustainable Economy: What progressive politics needs to do now

Loske argues the crisis is a turning point. It divides time into a "before" and an "after". It exposes so many ecologically questionable practices that consequences must and will follow. The disregard for natural boundaries has led us to more vulnerability and more dependence



Opinion PiecesPublications
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