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What is the Doughnut?
An overview of the core concept at the heart of Doughnut Economics, including how it has evolved since 2012 and interactive visualisations
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About Doughnut Economics
Meet the Doughnut and the concepts at the heart of Doughnut Economics.
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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 DEAL
Turning the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice
Welcome to DEAL
Turning the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice
Getting started
New to Doughnut Economics or DEAL? Check out these introductory pages where you can learn about the ideas, the community and how the ideas are being put into practice.
DEAL Spotlight
A snapshot of important news, exciting events, inspiring stories, and key tools for putting Doughnut Economics into practice — from the DEAL Team.
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Explore the Economy
Foundational learning tool to learn all about the Embedded Economy for schools and education. Welcome!
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Doughnut 3.0 is here
The Doughnut, updated, now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century
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What is a Doughnut Portrait?
A tool to help you start planning your own Doughnut Portrait for your place and your community
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Doughnut in local governments: a global overview
Research studying the practical application of Doughnut Economics in 50 local governments
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DEAL Posters
A set of four posters introducing Doughnut Economics and DEAL
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Quick Participatory Doughnut Mapping
Mapping perceptions and experiences to make a quick Doughnut Portrait for your place
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Sectors, Let's Get Started
A guide for applying Doughnut Economics to transform sectors
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Doughnut Economics for University Courses
slide decks, readings, videos & activities for lecturers seeking to integrate DE into their own university teaching
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Wellbeing Economy Policy Design Course
An interactive online tool for those who want to explore how governments can help people and nature thrive together
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Hello Doughnut!
The first set of Doughnut Economics foundational learning tools for schools and education. Welcome!
Themes
Explore the six clusters of practice in the DEAL Community where you'll find tools and stories that are most relevant for your audience and context, and events to connect with practitioners like you.
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Communities & Art
Cultivating grassroots agency and power with creative and accessible methods, peer-learning and global solidarity
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Cities & Regions
Local and regional governments working with Doughnut Economics in their policies, strategies, processes and ways of thinking
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Government & Policy
Engaging with national and international policymakers to bring about systemic transformation.
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Research & Academia
Deepening the concepts and applications of Doughnut Economics through scholarly collaboration.
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Schools & Education
Collaborating with educators and learners in all settings to create transformative education for regenerative futures.
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Business & Enterprise
Transforming the deep design of business to enable regenerative and distributive action.
Topics
Explore the topics that connect across different themes - another way to find tools and stories that are most relevant for your audience and context, and events to connect with practitioners like you.
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# Introducing-the-Doughnut
A set of tools and approaches to help you introduce the Doughnut to different audiences and in different settings
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# games
Creating games to explore the ideas and possibilities of Doughnut Economics in action
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# interactive-workshops
Sharing activities and workshops that introduce the ideas of Doughnut Economics in interactive and experiential ways
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# research-for-action
Connecting scholar-activists to amplify Doughnut Economics research and to mobilise evidence for transformative action
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# doughnut-portrait
Tools and stories to help and inspire you to create a Doughnut Portrait of your place
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# grassroots-global-connections
Connecting as a global community of grassroots DE practitioners to nurture our individual and collective practice
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# planning-and-architecture
Tools, ideas and projects using Doughnut Economics in architecture, planning and spatial development
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# book-clubs
Learning about the ideas of Doughnut Economics with others
Upcoming events
Upcoming Doughnut Economics events - both online and in-person - by and for the DEAL Community.
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What is a Doughnut Portrait? Q&A Session (option 1)
2026-02-24T09:00:00Z
Online
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#Research-for-Action Seminar: Resilience and the Doughnut
2026-02-24T14:00:00Z
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IDEN Bioregions doing economics differently
2026-02-24T20:00:00Z
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What is a Doughnut Portrait? Q&A Session (option 2)
2026-02-25T16:30:00Z
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Doughnut Economics Community of Practice: How to teach the Doughnut
2026-02-26T08:30:00Z
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How to begin working with Doughnut Economics in local governments (event 1)
2026-03-02T15:00:00Z
Online
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How to begin working with Doughnut Economics in local governments (event 2)
2026-03-04T09:30:00Z
Online
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Q&A Amsterdam Donut Coalition & Amsterdam Municipality
2026-03-05T09:00:00Z
Online
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TIME TO LAND - in-person game in UK
2026-04-27T10:00:00Z
YO10 5DD, York, York, England, United Kingdom
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Interactive workshop-show "The New Odyssey" in Amsterdam
2026-05-17T17:00:00Z
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The DEAL Community
Photo Stream
Explore Doughnut Economics action in pictures! Introducing the Photo Stream: a fun, new, quick and easy way to share photos of your local Doughnut Economics actions with the whole DEAL Community.
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