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.

Maya de Souza

Tackling our Housing Crisis: why building more houses will not solve the problem

This report challenges the conventional policy wisdom of ‘just build more homes.’ It argues that the most significant cause of the affordability problem is not shortage of supply but a high level of inequality combined with a dysfunctional financial system.



Victor Anderson

Growth, Capitalism and the 'Green Economy': a response to Bill Blackwell

A response to Bill Blackwell’s ‘Why do capitalist economies need to grow?’



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Why do capitalist economies need to grow?

Bill Blackwater in this gas explores the topic of capitalist economic growth



John Blewitt

The Post-Growth Project: How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow.



Ray Cunningham

What’s the point of the EU? The World War I Centenary and the myth of the EU’s ‘peace mission’

Ray Cunningham explores the role, history and potential of the EU in this gas.



Thomas Lines

A Shorter Leash: Ideas for reforming the banking sector

In Lines' gas, he examines the banking sector and how it can be reformed to meet the actual needs of the economy, rather than the private interests of banks and their directors



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When businessmen fear growth

Hugh Small's gas exploring the topic of economic growth



Rupert Read

Post-growth Common sense: Political Communications for the Future

How should we describe the post-growth economy? Where is the term or frame that we are looking for? That was the central appointed task of this report.



Molly Scott Cato

Can't Pay, Won't Pay: Debt, the Myth of Austerity and the Failure of Green Investment

There is a false consensus around austerity, which prevents investment into supporting a sustainable economy. This report proposes establishing a Citizen's Audit to explore debt, its consequences and alternatives to repayment.



Andrew Dobson

The Politics of Post-Growth

A post-growth world is inevitable. More technically, there is no evidence for the possibility of the absolute decoupling of economic growth and environmental degradation. The question is: will the post-growth world be unplanned or planned, catastrophic or benign?



Jonathan Essex

How to Make Do and Mend our Economy

This report is about how ‘building’ a post-growth future cannot take for granted building in the literal sense: building comes at a huge ecological cost and tends to drive up consumption in all other areas.



Alex Warleigh-Lack

Greening the EU

Is the EU just for capitalists? Can it really help in the transition to a sustainable way of life? Warleigh-Lack concludes with 5 suggested priorities for Green politicians within the EU