Publications

Green House Think Tank publishes many different sorts of contribution to green politics. This includes the regulation publication of Reports, Gases, Green Reads and Newsletters, however have also published Books, Pamphlets, Consultation responses, and comms materials like flyers, posters, booklets and digital images.

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.



Emma Dawnay

Briefing: Managing the UK Economy in times of the Climate Emergency

This briefing describes how the UK economy functions based on the works of many non-mainstream economists. It dispels the current economic orthodoxy of fiscal rules and taming inflation, shows banking is key for a thriving economy, and gives different options for funding public spending.



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.



Jonathan Essex

Beyond Drax: A Real Green Future for Yorkshire and the Humber

In this report we quantify and describe over 70,000 green jobs across various sectors in Yorkshire and the Humber over ten years. We propose a redirection of Drax subsidies towards this vision.



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.



Nadine Storey

Post 2024 General Election Survey - Analysis

The Green House 2024 general election survey highlights big questions for Green Parties around their purpose and differentiation from other political parties, how to represent increasingly diverse views and how to model the society they wish to see through their own internal governance systems.



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.



Green House Think Tank

Climate Emergency: Economics, Politics, Honesty

This Framing Paper by Jonathan Essex on behalf of Green House Think Tank outlines areas of focus for our forthcoming project. Green House is grappling with what this all means in practice and welcomes contributions and collaboration.



John Foster

Climate and Justice

John Foster links climate, justice and morality in a way which readers may not be expecting. He argues that instead of seeing our responsibilities here as obligations of justice, now very much the standard story, we need to contrast them with the kind of obligation which justice imposes on us.