About Tools

Introducing tools - empowering people to explore the ideas of Doughnut Economics and put them into practice.

What is a tool?

A tool guides and empowers people to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action.
Exploratory in scope
Rather than proposing specific policies and institutions, tools offer exploratory workshops, activities, lesson plans, methodologies, and more.
Guiding with content
Tools serve as how-to guides, with clear steps describing: what can be done with the tool, how to do it, and important things to consider or watch out for.
Evolving with practice
Tools are based on things people have already tried. They're designed to be used, adapted and shared back so everyone can benefit from learnings and improvements.

What makes for a great tool?

 A great tool contains all the key information someone might need to try it out.

They provide depth, but can be summarised with a simple-yet-engaging title, description and image.

See examples of best practices by browsing popular tools from the DEAL Community and DEAL Team 👉 

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Cities & Regions: Let's Get Started

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Doughnut Economics Book Club Guide

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Doughnut Story Canvas

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Introductory lectures on Doughnut Economics

# video # teaching-tool # explainer

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Youth Mayors Field Guide

# teaching-tool # methodology # lesson-plan # activity

Can I share my tool?

If you have a way of putting Doughnut Economics into practice, we’d love for you to share it, so long as you follow a few principles and guidelines.
Follow DEAL's principles
Tools should follow the "Doughnut Dos and Don'ts" as well as the "Doughnut Principles of Practice". Please read our full “Principles & Guidelines” for details.
Don’t share business tools
We ask that no new tools are created on the topic of Doughnut Economics and business. Please read DEAL's “Policy for Businesses” for more information.
Build on Doughnut Economics
Tools should explicitly describe how they can be used to put the ideas of Doughnut Economics - and not just ‘new economics’ more generally - into practice.

 Ready to share your tool? Join the DEAL Community (it's quick and free!) to get started.

How can I use other people's tools?

All tools uploaded to the DEAL Community Platform - by the DEAL Team and the wider DEAL Community - are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
 

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This means tools can be used for almost any purpose, so long as you provide attribution and share back any changes you make, under the same licence. If you are modifying tools created by the DEAL Team we ask that you include a specific attribution.

Please read our full Licensing Rules for more details.

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