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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. 

Melissa Zanocco

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

I want to work with people who are taking practical steps to make Doughnut Economics a reality.

michelle lanceley

France

I want to contribute to a community of change-makers, sharing knowledge and commited to continuous improvement and collaboration.

Ernst Kleisterlee

Centrum, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

The hope to exchange ideas and best practices.

Lilian Yu

Berlin, Germany

A love for the simplicity of the doughnut, and curiosity how to get involved.

Stefan Zylinski

Exeter

Engagement with degrowth folks

Tim Soerens

Lincoln Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Inspired and committed to the vision and values

Matt Parry

I joined the Donut Economics community to contribute to a regenerative and distributive economy.

Geoffroy Morre

Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

I believe in system changes like the one the Doughnut is providing

Bernie Anderson

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Generosity and business is a key way we live and work in the doughnut. I'm here to learn ways we can help leaders do this.

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. 

As Agile coach, Circular Economy professional and Biomimicry practitioner; I help organisations to deliver better value, to reduce waste: of time, effort, materials and energy. To focus on impact. To leave the place better than how we found it that’s: Product, People and Planet.  View our public declaration form here 

We help sustainability leaders make greater progress through activating collaboration and collective innovation within and beyond their organisation. View our public declaration form here 

Plans With Purpose is dedicated to helping businesses and brands put purpose and sustainability at the heart of their progress.  The company focuses on 3 key areas of collaboration with businesses wanting to be future fit:  1) Defining & acting on Purpose  2) Building & acting on Regenerative Strategies  3) Establishing more Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive businesses from the inside out View our public declaration form here 

After  6  years  of  commitment  to  the  Ecological  and  Social Transformation in France, with an expertise in pedagogy of change, strong strategic skills and experience in launching significative local and national initiatives, Léna has created Mission Eco Humans.    If you are a company, a public service, an association, or a higher education  institution,  Mission  Eco  Humans  offers  you  actionable trainings, strategic consulting services and conferences :     • Actionable  trainings :  enabling  your  stakeholders  to understand the issues and to move straight on to practical action via an action plan, applied to your organisation on various  subjects  (climate,  biodiversity,  mobility,  food, responsible digital, etc.). I'm a professional facilitator for the “Fresque du Climat” (Climate Fresk) and a dozen other workshops.    • Strategic consulting : developing a strategic roadmap for reducing  your  organisation's  negative  impacts  and maximizing the positive ones. I am certified in the Bilan Carbone  ®,  a  carbon  footprint  assessment  method  that also accompanies organisations on their transition plan. I can also help you develop a more systemic approach, via Donut tools,  to help  you reshape your strategy  towards more regeneration & distribution !    • Conferences and events facilitation :  I’m a co-author of a book “Basculons dans un monde vi(v)able”. I regularly give speeches  about  topics  like  “How  to  act",  “How  to  get  motivated and project yourself in a desirable future”. It’s a short way of reaching a wide audience and getting your various stakeholders on board!    Léna has already trained and accompanied impactfully more than 1000 persons among more than 20 different entities. Whatever her activities, one constant prevails : Léna's enthusiastic and communicative energy that will make you want to act! View our public declaration here 

We offer consulting services, workshops and trainings for businesses and organisations, which would like to know the what?, the why? and the how? of circularity, sustainability and regeneration. View our public declaration form here

At Impact Hub Basel, our aspiration is to support social entrepreneurs and sustainable innovators. Through various offers ranging from events and coworking to different incubation and acceleration programs, we aim to promote the interaction between our members and the different stakeholders.  View our public declaration form here

The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is a trade association built on foundations of openness, inclusivity, and the power of shared knowledge. SCA’s purpose is to foster global coffee communities to support activities to make coffee a more sustainable, equitable, and thriving activity for the whole value chain. From coffee farmers to baristas and roasters, our membership spans the globe, encompassing every element of the coffee value chain. The SCA acts as a unifying force within the specialty coffee industry and works to make coffee better by raising standards worldwide through a collaborative and progressive approach. Dedicated to building an industry that is fair, sustainable, and nurturing for all, the SCA draws on years of insights and inspiration from the specialty coffee community. View our public declaration form here 

We create environmental communities in the different sectors of the economy and society, based on a technological platform that serves as e-learning, social network, network of knowledge and project management. 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

Kwezi Konsult derives its name from the Zulu language, where "Kwezi" means "morning star."    Our mission to guide and lead businesses and organizations in Africa towards sustainable and regenerative practices.    We are a start-up that provides consulting services to help businesses and organizations in Africa transition to more sustainable and regenerative practices.  View our public declaration 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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