Facing up to Climate Reality
This project starting in 2017 addresses the widening chasm between climate science and climate policy, the reasons for it, and how to bridge it. Its starting point is that the time for false hope is past, and only courageous realism will enable us to respond adequately to now inevitable and impending serious climate damage. This message can be cathartic, leading to a realistic assessment of future needs and prospects and avoiding a fragile or shallow optimism.
Democratic or Authoritarian Action
How should people respond to the Climate Emergency? This gas is an exchange between Jem Bendell, and John Foster around a critical question of our times: Can democratic action now avert climate and ecological catastrophe and if not, is any form of authoritarian approach ever worth considering?
The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Account of the environmental crisis caused by capitalist firms and European empires
A Climate of Disruption
The inevitable upheaval as the consequence of our regime of accumulation is well and truly upon us. Today, every aspect of our daily lives seem to be unravelling. How can we exist in an age of multiple escalating forms of disruption? Can we envisage ways to work with and through that disruption?
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World: the implications of René Girard’s thought for consumer society.
Max Familioe considers the work of René Girard on desire, and it's relevant to Rethinking Demand and Facing up to Climate Relativity.
The conversation isn’t where we thought it was
XR-UK has released its 2022 strategy As the World Looks Up We Step Up expanding on its 2019 list of demands. Prashant and Peter from Green House Think Tank core group briefly reflect on it's significance.
COVID-19 and Facing up to Climate Reality
Online discussion about what the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts to contain it may mean for the climate and ecological crisis. With John Barry, Anne Chapman, John Foster, and Reinhard Loske.
Facing up to Climate Reality book launches and events
These are the events Green House held for the launch of our book Facing up to Climate Reality; Honesty, Disaster and Hope published in 2019
Facing up to Climate Reality; Honesty, Disaster and Hope
Our latest book, takes as its starting point the fact that the climate crisis is going to get much worse whatever we now do. The book explores what this means and how we might be able to confront escalating climate chaos while not giving up hope.
Facing up to Climate Reality
This one day conference considers big questions about climate change as well as what we can learn from past extreme weather events for how we might cope in the future.
‘Official! – climate change is real’. Now: what is to be done?
Climate danger is no longer just one interpretation of the evidence, but what the evidence now decisively demonstrates how things really are. the UK Green Party should actively pursue necessary political changes to climate catastrophe, without waiting for majorities to be convinced by its campaigns
Conflicted about emotions: ecological grief, love and truth
Emotions are important in explaining our motivations and behaviour but have been left out of the discourse on climate change. Mental health impacts of climate change need to be acknowledged. We need a collective mourning of what we are losing so we create space for the new, better ways of living
Dealing with Extreme Weather
An international conference linked to our 'Facing up to Climate Reality' project, on how to deal with the kind of extreme weather events that climate change is bringing.