Gases

Gases or 'Green House Gases' are essays published by Green House Think Tank which explore a particular, usually topical issue or subject.

Zaid Alasad

Modern Political Power & Social Paralysis

The West’s distributed power structure is often less visibly oppressive, but it can still produce entrenched societal paralysis. This is the first in a collection of articles exploring this theme.



Nadine Storey

The Green Party leadership - how deep are the differences?

Green House core group member, Nadine Storey, reflects on the deeper differences between the leadership contenders for the Green Party of England and Wales.



Carrie Bowes

A short reflection on Green Party Leadership candidates' approaches, in the context of ecological and societal breakdown

Green House core group member, Carrie Bowes, offers a reflection on the contenders for leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales.



Green House Think Tank

Green Leadership – Questions for candidates

Questions for the candidates in the 2025 leadership elections for UK-based Green Parties.



Jakob Abekhon

Can We Thrive Without Overheating the Planet? Lessons from Costa Rica and Uruguay

This article asks: is it possible to secure high levels of wellbeing while keeping emission levels within a fair and sustainable limit? It takes a global perspective, identifying countries that effectively support their citizen's wellbeing using significantly few resources.



Zaid Alasad

The Great British Pension Fiasco

The Great British Pension Fiasco unearths the uncomfortable truth about the very institutions entrusted with safeguarding the UK’s financial stability. This is a tale of the failed governance that paved the road to more austerity, stalling the green transition and gutting social investment.



Prashant Vaze

You Never Give Me Your Money

The COP29 conference is floundering with the usual tussle between the Global South asking for financial support to green their energy systems and the Global North pleading poverty. This article looks at some radical solutions for this impasse.



Rupert Read

Reinventing Politics: Some Post-Electoral Thoughts For The Conservatives

This piece by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh (co-Directors of the Climate Majority Project), with a companion piece addressed to Labour and Read’s earlier piece on the Green Party, form a series reflecting on the new UK political situation from the perspective of Green House’s interests and concerns.



Rupert Read

Reinventing politics: some post-electoral thoughts for labour

This piece by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh (co-Directors of the Climate Majority Project), with companion pieces addressed to the Conservatives and (by Read) to the Green Party, form a series reflecting on the new UK political situation from the perspective of Green House’s interests and concerns.



Paula Hunt

Spinning plates: balancing pressures for nutrition and planet

How should the UK's Eatwell Guide be brought up to date, incorporating sustainability as well as health considerations?



Gareth Wyn Jones

The Many Dimensions of Energy

Gareth Wyn Jones, Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, formerly Director, Centre for Arid Zone Studies and Chief Scientist, Countryside Council for Wales, argues that humanity's over-use of energy as such, rather than simply its reliance on fossil fuels, drives global warming and much else.



Rupert Read

The true power of the Green Party is now: to admit our own powerlessness to ‘save the world’

How to parlay four MPs into a genuinely transformative response to the climate and ecological emergency? A prominent Green thinker offers a challenging proposal.