Green House is a think tank founded in 2011. It aims to lead the development of green thinking in the UK.
Scottish Greens Co-Leadership Election
Green House Think Tank invited all candidates in the Scottish Green Party’s co-leadership election to respond to our ‘Questions for Candidates’.
📌 Unpack the thinking behind each candidacy, from their reading of current crises to their proposals for party action.
🔗 Read candidate responses here: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/scottish-g/
Two new Gases are now live. Green House core group members Carrie Bowes and Nadine Storey share their reflections on the responses submitted by the Green Party leadership candidates.
🟢 The Green Party leadership - how deep are the differences? - Nadine Storey, https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/green-leadership-a-reflection-the-green-party-leadership-how-deep-are-the-differences/
🟢 A short reflection on Green Party Leadership candidates' approaches, in the context of ecological and societal breakdown. - Carrie Bowes, https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/reflection-green-leadership-in-the-context-of-ecological-and-societal-breakdown/
📢 With nominations now confirmed for the 2025 Green Party leadership and deputy leadership elections, take a look at the questions we’re putting to the candidates.
🗣️ Let us know your thoughts, and read the full article explaining our rationale and more details on our website.
🔗 Click here to read: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/green-leadership-questions-for-candidates/
Democracy is meant to safeguard freedom - but history shows it can also empower those who challenge its foundations.
Click here to read the full Green Read: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/tv-series-i-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
We’re excited to share our Green Party Leadership Hustings featuring Adrian Ramsay MP and Zack Polanski. In this hour-long discussion, we explored a wide range of pressing questions, including bold ideas for funding a green economy, the meaning of success beyond elections, and delivering a good quality life without relying on endless economic growth.
The questions were a collaborative effort by Green House think tank.
New Article | Our latest piece punctures the pretence of green revolution, exposing how purveyors of neoliberalism engineered an ideology of inertia - preserving power, pillaging the public, and plundering the planet.
Follow for more sharp satire on power, paralysis, and the myths that are dismantling our democracy.
To read the first in a collection of articles exploring modern political power and social paralysis, click below:
https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/modern-political-power-social-paralysis/
New Publication – Deputy Leadership Elections
Green House Think Tank invited all candidates in the Green Party’s deputy leadership election to respond to our Questions for Candidates.
📌 Explore how they reflect on the political and ecological challenges we face, and the role they see for the party in responding to them.
🔗 Read the full article here: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/responses-for-candidates-for-leader-of-green-party-of-england-and-wales-green-leadership-2/
📚 In our latest Green Read, John Foster reviews How We Sold Our Future, a powerful new book exploring why democracy has failed in the face of the climate crisis.
“It could be time to ask seriously whether democratic process, rather than being the template on which we must mount any confrontation with the emergency, may not itself be part of the emergency which we must now confront.”
Read the full review here: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/how-we-sold-our-future-the-failure-to-fight-climate-change/
New Publication – Leadership Elections
Green House Think Tank recently invited both candidates standing for Green Party leadership to respond to our ‘Questions for Candidates’.
📌 Read the responses from:
- Zack Polanski
- Adrian Ramsay & Ellie Chowns
🔗 Click here to read the full article: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/responses-for-candidates-for-leader-of-green-party-of-england-and-wales-
green-leadership/
📢 With internal leadership elections for UK-based Green Parties approaching, we are inviting candidates to share their thinking.
Green House Think Tank is submitting a set of questions to those standing. These questions focus on key issues facing our communities and ask how Green Parties should respond.
👉 Want to see what we’re asking? View the list here:
https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/green-leadership-questions-for-candidates/?ref=green-house-think-tank-newsletter
Stay tuned as we share the responses.
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“We could project a new narrative, one about the common people rising against oligarchs, through the construction of inclusive and generous communities.”
This review doesn’t just summarize Monbiot & Hutchison’s ideas - it reveals the hopeful path forward for those tired of neoliberal despair. An eye-opener for activists and newcomers alike, it argues for a bold shift towards belonging, resilience, and justice.
👉 Read our latest Green Read here:
https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/the-invisible-doctrine/
“It was akin to seeing a five-alarm fire and deciding it was a good time to repaint the fire truck.”
As UK pension funds spiraled into crisis in September 2022, the Bank of England stood back, failing to intervene until markets were already in chaos.
The Great British Pension Fiasco reveals how the government's failure to oversee the Bank of England helped trigger a financial crisis and cost Liz Truss her premiership.
🔗 Read here: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/gas-the-great.../
💷 From taxation to QE, the UK government has multiple ways to fund public spending - but which ones are sustainable, fair, and future-ready?
🌱 Explore the full toolbox of funding methods at the Exchequer’s disposal - including green and socially beneficial alternatives you may not have heard of.
🔍 Read Green House’s recent briefing, “Managing the UK Economy in Times of the Climate Emergency,” by Emma Dawnay.
👉Read here: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/briefing-managing-the-uk-economy-in-times-of-the-climate-emergency/
In a new piece for Green House, Jakob Abekhon highlights Costa Rica and Uruguay as compelling case studies. Both generate almost all electricity from renewables, maintain strong public healthcare and education systems, and promote social inclusion - while keeping per-capita emissions around half those of countries like the UK. Their example offers valuable lessons for a fairer, greener future.
Click here to read the article: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/can-we-thrive-without-overheating-the-planet-lessons-from-costa-rica-and-uruguay/
📘 Check out our previous report 'Sinister Interest - Reforming the Media', which discusses how democracy can be sustained, with a critical focus on the media’s influence on public discourse.
Click here to read the report:
https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/sinister-interest-reforming-the-media/
View the Byline Times article here:
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/the-bbc-must-be-mutualised-to-end-its-pro-establishment-bias-warns-report/
#greenhousethinktank #economy #GreenEconomy #greenideas #ourpredicament #GreenEconomy #bbc
Are we living through the collapse of old certainties — or the birth of something new?
Our latest Green Read unpacks Adam Curtis’s sweeping documentary — a work that challenges our understanding of power, identity, and the future of politics.
This review reflects on a documentary that offers no easy answers, but plenty of unsettling insight.
Click here to read the full review: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/tv-series-i-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
