Green House Think Tank

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Green House is a think tank founded in 2011. It aims to lead the development of green thinking in the UK.
Websitehttps://www.greenhousethinktank.org
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Find out how decision-making and governance can be restorative instead of extractive, clarifying instead of confusing, & connecting instead of polarizing with @SociocracyForAll!

Learn the basics of #sociocracy through the 75-minute primer course: https://sociocracyforall.org/primer-sutra

Explore other sociocracy resources, available in 8 different languages: https://www.sociocracyforall.org/

#governance #organization #culture #team #development #communication #democracy

#OtD 28 Apr 1945 Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed and left publicly to rot the previous year https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/
E77-80: Italian resistance

A four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.

Working Class History
#OtD 28 Apr 1958 a general strike began in Malta against British colonial authorities, protesting low pay and the closure of the dry docks. Workers blocked roads and rioted, and 100 were arrested and jailed. It sowed the seeds of independence in 1964 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9975/malta-general-strike
Working Class History

#OtD 28 Apr 1965 20,000 US Marines invaded the Dominican Republic on orders of President Johnson to prevent creation of "a second Cuba" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9976/us-invades-dominican-republic
Working Class History

Renters should expect their homes to be maintained to the same standard as any other.

Scottish Greens are working to protect renters across Scotland from unfair rent rises, substandard living conditions, and rogue landlords.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25121772.new-proposal-see-tenants-allowed-withhold-rent/

Britain’s pension system was meant to be a bedrock of security - until it became a house of cards.

Green House Think Tank’s 'The Great British Pension Fiasco' exposes the political and financial
mistakes that sparked the 2022 crisis, and lays out a roadmap for a sustainable, people-centred
future.

The full report is available to read on our website.

#GreenEconomy #climateemergency #ourpredicament #economy #EconomicJustice

📉💬 Austerity is a political choice—not an economic necessity.

Discover how a different approach to managing money, banking, and public investment can unlock climate action and economic stability.

🌿 New thinking from Green House Think Tank.
📥 Read the full briefing on our website

#GreenEconomy #ClimateEmergency #ModernMonetaryTheory #ourpredicament
#economy #EconomicJustice

Green House Think Tank is pleased to announce the publication of two new reports:

• Managing the UK Economy in Times of the Climate Emergency
• The Great British Pension Fiasco

These reports offer critical insights into the urgent economic reforms needed in the face of the climate crisis.

Explore the findings on our website.

#ClimateEmergency #GreenEconomy #EconomicJustice #ClimateAction

📚 Our latest Green Read takes a bite out of Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken.

Find out how food isn’t just fuel — it’s political, powerful, and deeply processed. 🌍

🧠 Corporations can never be ‘part of the solution’ — if they are around the table, reform is impossible...

Read the full review on our website!

What happens when the story of progress no longer rings true?
What happens when the future becomes something our society tries to distract people from, rather than inspire people with?
What if honest hope, is about accepting what us humans do have agency over, and what we don't?
What if we need to step off the political pedestal to accept what our society can't control...
https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/at-work-in-the-ruins/
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hospicing-modernity-parting-with-harmful-ways-of-living-vanessa-machado-de-oliveira/6401710?ean=9781623176242
#modernity #progress #beyondgrowth #honest #hope

https://decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/happier-healthier-wealthier/

At Work in the Ruins

Nadine Storey reviews Dougald Hine's latest book 'At Work in the Ruins'

Green House Think Tank