Green Reads are book reviews by Green House Think Tank which reflect on work relevant to green politics.
Bridle shows the emissions from various components of the meals she discusses. The book gives options for things we might eat and drink for breakfast, lunch, snacks and evening meal. She highlights foods that have the greatest climate impacts and suggests how meals can be tweaked to reduce emissions
What is the best plan for how we can transition to a Zero Carbon Britain that faces up to the climate emergency? Zero Carbon Britain and Absolute Zero. This review contrasts the zero carbon plans in Zero Carbon Britain and Absolute Carbon, bot published since the UK committed to zero carbon by 2050
Gabe Brown discusses his principles of soil health and is useful to farmers and anyone concerned with food production and the state of farming.
Peter Newell’s first goal in this book is to guide the field of International Relations towards an endeavour long overdue. As set out in his first chapter, IR of all disciplines is one you would expect to have some appreciation of ecology and the biosphere, as the basis for wellbeing and security.
Wilding raises two key issues. One is the challenge it poses to the established UK approach to nature conservation, and our approach to nature more generally. The other is whether we have more than enough food and should instead of producing food give land, such as that at Knepp over to Nature.
Ray Cunningham's review of Warde's book, which examines the invention of sustainability across different time periods and with different themes
The book’s subtitle seemed particularly apropos given the lockdowns many of us are experiencing. These establish an enforced slowdown on the world economy - an unfortunate natural experiment to test out some of the book’s ideas.
John Foster's extended review of 'This Civilisation is Finished', 'Truth and its consequences' and 'Common Sense for the 21st Century' and concludes rapid action is imperative
This green read explores hope, and considers these two books by Chomsky and Eagleton
The book focuses on the development of human society. If we want to rebalance our impact on the earth it would probably help to understand how we have come to design the systems - society, the economy - that interact with it.
This book by Goodell highlights the devastating impacts of climate change due to rising sea levels, but holds out the hope that we could learn to live with water
Since 1950 we have consumed vastly more fossil fuels than in the whole of human history before that. Piriani's book is a detailed account of the history of fossil fuel consumption and how fossil fuel consumption is embedded into our economic social systems