Discover the Community

Meet and join a community of pioneering changemakers from across the globe who are turning Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action.

Welcome to the DEAL Community!

The DEAL Community is everyone who is exploring the ideas of Doughnut Economics and pioneering ways to put the ideas into practice.

This includes educators, policy makers, community members, business people, artists, academics, designers, young people, facilitators, oh, and the occasional economist.

We believe economies of the 21st century will be practiced first and theorised later, and we believe they will be put inspired by the creativity, imagination, skill and perspectives of everyone.

That means everyone is welcome!

What we offer is an open-source commons of inspiration and tools to apply to your context, some created by the DEAL Team, but mostly created by members of the DEAL Community.

What we ask in return is that you use the ideas and tools with integrity, by following our guidelines as we lay out in our guidelines page.

Meet members of DEAL Community

Meet and join pioneering changemakers who are turning Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action. 

Nicholas Chaplin

USA

To connect and Network with member from all over the world

Sira Dheshan Naidu

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

If you're a founder looking for guidance, or an investor interested in backing purpose-driven brands, I'd love to connect. Let's w

Rita Antonieta Neves

Portugal

To be part of change towards a more balanced and sustainable future

Marie Bonhomme

Paris, France

I want to better understand how to develop companies within the doughnut economic model.

Sevin Ozuguz

Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Yıldız Kampüsü, Istanbul, ...

As an architect, I want to discover the intersection of design world and climate action.

Hana Lee

Seattle, Washington, United States

I'd like to learn, collaborate, and contribute to bringing systemic changes.

Sarah Hoey

UK

A belief that a better world is possible

Matius Krisetya

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Transforming organizations to live their mission from within.

Devin Grayson

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I would like to learn different structures and case studies from this community

Begüm Kilimcioğlu

Antwerp, Belgium

I would love to meet like-minded people to have horizon-broadening discussions and perhaps even collaborate on certain projects.

Local Groups & Networks

Self-organising networks turning the ideas of Doughnut Economics into action. Find a group or network in your area and get involved! 

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Local governments in action

Pioneering places around the world are turning Doughnut Economics into practice. Local governments at many scales - from villages to megacities - are adopting the tools and concepts of Doughnut Economics in order to help bring about a thriving future.

Worthing Borough Council is exploring how the principles of Doughnut Economic can feed into their local policies. 

Bannau Brycheiniog  National Park Management Plan 2023-2028 The Park has developed a Park Doughnut and put it at the core of their National Park Management Plan 2023-2028, as a framework to define future actions, with the targets and indicators set to be used for monitoring progress. The Management Plan is a vision setting document, setting the high level objectives for the park through the Doughnut, with action plans then meant to be delivered in partnership with various stakeholders. The aim of this plan is to eliminate all of the red from the Doughnut diagram, and the plan defines five Missions in response to the biggest over-shoots.   

The City of Glasgow has ambitions to move towards a Green Wellbeing Economy in order to meet its social and environmental targets, and has joined C40's Thriving Cities Initiative. An important step in the process of becoming a thriving city is the creation of a (Doughnut Economics) City Portrait, a tool for thinking about Glasgow in a holistic and innovative way. University of Glasgow worked with the city to develop the first City Portrait, as part of the GALLANT project that uses Glasgow as a living lab to trial new sustainable solutions taking a whole-systems approach. In 2023, the Thriving Definitions of the first portrait (the Glasgow Doughnut) were adopted by the council to guide their future work, and to help forge new alliances across Glasgow's many organisations, businesses and individuals across the whole system. 

After commissioning a study evaluating the possibilities of applying Doughnut Economics in Tomelilla, the town is bringing Doughnut Economics into their work and policies in various ways - by basing their Sustainability Report 2022 on the Doughnut, planning the development of a new school based on the principles of Doughnut Economics, developing a Data Portrait, and exploring the development of an impact assessment and evaluation tool.   

Dublin City Council agreed a motion in 2022 to embed the principles of Doughnut Economics into their Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) - a statutory six-year plan, with the aim to expand from a sustainable growth-based framework to pursuing the wellbeing and prosperity for all people and the environment.

Since 2021, the local government of Valence Romans Agglo have been using the Doughnut as a tracking and monitoring tool for over 20 strategic projects, developing contextualised social and ecological indicators, evaluating the potential impact of these projects and steering their development. 

In 2022, Perak State launched their 5-year State Strategy that, as one of the strategy’s Flagship Programmes, sets an ambition for the city of Ipoh to be living in the Doughnut, and to use a monitoring framework using the Doughnut. 

Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) are bringing Doughnut Economics into their core strategies, including their new Local Plan, to guide the review, prioritisation and improvement of policies and projects, based on their potential social and ecological impact.   

The Regional Spatial Strategy for Thimphu-Paro Region, led by the Royal Commission of Bhutan and the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement and developed by a team of architects led by Prior+Partners, uses Doughnut Economics as one of the guiding frameworks, aligning it with Bhutan's Gross National Happiness framework. 

The state of São Paulo is launching the Ecologic Economic Zoning (EEZ-SP), a planning tool that establishes guidelines for spatial and territorial management, according to the environmental and socioeconomic potentialities and vulnerabilities of the different regions of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, composed by 645 municipalities.   Doughnut Economics was one of the inspirations used for the conception of the methodology of construction of the zoning, based on the diagnosis and prognosis of the state in relation to five strategic guidelines: Resilience to Climate Change, Water Security, Safeguarding Biodiversity, Competitive and Sustainable Economy and Reduction of Regional Inequalities.  For its elaboration and implementation, the EEZ-SP relies on an integrated and shared platform with updatable and freely accessible territorial information, as well as on strategies of institutional articulation and of public participation. 

Organisations in action

Many consultancies, NGOs and others are putting Doughnut Economics into practice in their work. Find out who they are, and what they're doing. 

The verb of the Jälleenrakentajat (rebuilders in Finnish) cooperative is ‘to begin’. We are aware of major system-level contexts and structures, but our focus is on the steps that are taken every day, every week and every month. We are politically and religiously independent, and our way of being is constructive, with clear and understandable expression in every situation. At the heart of everything are a strong relationship with nature and its desire to build an ecologically and socially sustainable society and lifestyle. Our focus is on the facilitation of workshops and training where Doughnut Principles of Practice are transferred to businesses and municipality organisations. View our public declaration form here 

We are designers of services and organizations that help meet financial goals with respect for the needs of people and the planet. Our mission is to drive innovation that enables organizations to transform their business to support decent and safe living in the Czech Republic. View our public declaration form here

One nature. We are nature. All people, and all species. We are interconnected with nature, and with each other. What we do to the planet and its living creatures, we do to ourselves. This is the fundamental truth guiding our work at the David Suzuki Foundation. Founded in 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation is a national, bilingual non-profit organization headquartered in Vancouver, with offices in Toronto and Montreal. Through evidence-based research, education and policy analysis, we work to conserve and protect the natural environment, and help create a sustainable Canada. We regularly collaborate with non-profit and community organizations, all levels of government, businesses and individuals. View our Public Declaration

Confluences is a partner for communities or organisations who wish to commit to a sustainable and desirable future for their territory through a process of co-creation. We contribute to processes and devices for the co-construction of knowledge and solutions adapted to different types of actors or beneficiaries. View our Public Declaration

TerrAsun Lab is a consulting services company guiding organizations and regions through their transformational journey towards models that are respectful of the living world and human communities.   Our activities range: -          from one-shot workshops to raise awareness and/or regular training sessions on environmental, social, and economic issues (climate change, biodiversity, water usage, planetary boundaries, green IT & responsible tech, introduction to regenerative economy…) -          to tailor-made and long-term support to organizations in their (radical) transformational journey towards regenerative and distributive models, which could include:  ·         co-construction of an ambitious purpose with multiple stakeholders, ·         identification and prioritisation of change levers, ·         building a roadmap with concrete initiatives and projects,  ·         definition of measurable impact indicators,  ·         new practises to foster conscious leadership and a cooperation culture.   We are experienced facilitators and trainersof several serious games labelled as “Fresks” (playful, collaborative and creative workshops that raises awareness on both environmental and social issues) such as The Climate Fresk, The Planetary Boundaries Fresco, The Digital collage, The Regenerative Econony Fresk, The Agri-Food Fresk … We deploy these tools in corporations (from SMEs to large multinational groups), public institutions, NGOs, universities, and schools. View our public declaration here 

EDU 4 U is a non-governmental organization- association that was established in 2014 to support and satisfy the educational, social and cultural needs of different target groups. The aim of the organization is to provide and promote the activities on local, national and international level in the field of education, social and cultural activities as well as to promote friendly relationship with foreign countries. EDU 4 U is an umbrella organisation for the club MasterPeace Slovakia which is a part of the MasterPeace Global. View our public declaration here

Wicked is a pioneering community advancing the budding field of impact entrepreneurship. We promote and develop alternative business models and enterprise design structures that allow organisations to prioritise the maximisation of impact over shareholder profits. Wicked undertakes projects, organises events, hosts workshops, shares resources and connects people on an every-day-basis through their social media channels. View our public declaration here

Circle Economy is a non-profit impact organisation, based in Amsterdam operating globally to empower businesses, cities and nations with practical and scalable solutions to put the circular economy into action. Our vision is an inclusive society that ensures the planet and all people can thrive. To avoid climate breakdown, our goal is to double global circularity by 2030. View our Public Declaration

We create regenerative spaces to explore, reflect and innovate on individual, organizational and societal change for transformation towards a world in which all people can thrive within healthy planetary and personal boundaries. Our vision is to realise the SDGs in terms of the doughnut economy, by applying Theory U and systems thinking to transformation processes for a world where everyone has a place to bring their talents and resources together for the common good. Facilitation of processes and (online-)events, systemic coaching and visualisation are our offers for cities/ public sector, education institutions, educators, businesses, community groups, NGOs as well as individuals and networks. View our public declaration form here

We are a combo of experienced leadership consultants and trained regenerative practitioners & regenerative business leaders.  View our public declaration form here

Upcoming events

Upcoming Doughnut Economics events - both online and in-person - by and for the DEAL Community. Have a browse or host your own event! 

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Tools & Stories

Open access tools that anyone can use to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action; and inspiring examples and case studies of Doughnut Economics in action in a broad range of places and contexts.

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