Abstract
Green Human Resource Management (Green HRM) is widely celebrated as a means of embedding ecological responsibility into organizational practice. This essay challenges that celebration. Drawing on the metaphor of an organizational greenhouse, it argues that Green HRM does not simply fall short of ecological transformation but actively forecloses it. Rather than confronting the structural drivers of ecological crisis, Green HRM translates environmental concern into metrics, appraisals and reporting cycles that organizations can own, manage and display. The problem is not failure but enclosure: sustainability is cultivated only in forms that are measurable, auditable and compatible with existing managerial logics. Against this, the essay introduces the metaphor of Irish conacre as a provocation rather than a prescription. Meaningful ecological responsibility may require not refining Green HRM, but refusing the organizational claim to own and manage it altogether.