
The Doughnut for Cities & Regions: A Doughnut Initiatives Sharing Session (Past)
An online sharing session feat. six initiatives, part of the programme of the 8th International Degrowth Conference.

Please Note: This event has now finished and can no longer be joined.
The restless expansion of our economies is causing unprecedented crises and threatening our very existence. The 8th International Degrowth Conference, 24—28 August 2021 (online + in-person in the Hague, NL), aims to raise awareness about potential pathways out of these crises.
To no surprise, the Doughnut Model plays a role, too!
As part of the 4-day conference programme, this 90-minutes online sharing session is going to feature six cities and regions (Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Devon, California, Rio de Janeiro). The speakers of each city/region will share their diverse insights on local doughnut initiatives, including initiation, goals, organising process and recent developments, followed by an interactive Q&A.
Speakers:
- Ana Lavaquial, cofounder LivMundi, an impact network-based movement in Rio de Janeiro
- Jane Brady, co-founder of the Bioregional Learning Centre, convener of the Devon Doughnut Collective
- Jared Ruiz Bybee, California Doughnut Economics Coalition
- Miloš Kovačević, Researcher at the Platform for Theory and Practice of Commons, Belgrade
- Patrick Léon Gross, co-founder Donut Berlin
- Rieta Aliredjo, Social Entrepreneur, Advocate and Activist for Circular and Doughnut Economy, Amsterdam
- Rob Shorter, DEAL Community and Education Lead
How to attend:
To attend this session you will need to sign up for the conference as a whole. You can click here to register. Payment is on a sliding scale. For more information and practical details you can also consult the registration manual.
Further information on the conference:
With its overall theme, Caring Communities for Radical Change, we highlight that care – through solidarity and justice – is central to degrowth as a collective project promoting sustainable, decolonial, feminist and post-capitalist modes of flourishing. The conference will be an invitation to build bridges between social movements, art, research and other practices, bringing together a range of different perspectives and actors.
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Léon Gross
Berlin, Deutschland
As the co-initiator of Donut Berlin, I am passionate about co-creating regenerative and redistributive cities, and bringing Berlin into the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. I am a polymath, I love learning across the fields of systems thinking, human development, technology management, and sustainable business, and connecting ideas in ways that create long-term value for people and the environment. My experience as a scholar, speaker, founder, author, lecturer, consultant, and community manager has taken me to 30+ countries and reinforced my commitment to collaboration across national, cultural, and geographical divides. I'm currently looking for opportunities to share, spread, co-create, co-develop, and manifest Donut Berlin, and I am always happy to connect with inspiring people, so let's chat!
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Laura Sturk
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I would describe myself as a person with a strong social conscience, who is passionately engaged in developing global communities. I have been involved with, and continue to follow the progress, of many forward-thinking and socio-ecologically minded groups. Katimavik, ChocoSol, Centre for Social Innovation, Park People, and so many more have all been about building and inspiring communities with a holistic world view. I currently run a digital marketing company called Icon Media House. We help to create logos, generate brand awareness, and develop websites.
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Franziska Raedeker
Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Gianluca Gatti
Tarquinia, Viterbo, Italy
I am an Audiovisual specialist who, thanks to COVID-19, is now making one giant leap by going back to study Regenerative Actions at Ubiquity University. I recently moved back to Italy after spending 30 years between the UK and Australia. I am currently planning to unroll the Doughnut in my BioRegion of Tarquinia in the region of Latium, Italy.
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Petra de Veld
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
After having worked for 30 years in and for large and medium-sized companies, both in management and in consultancy, it is time to apply my knowledge and skills for donut economics. I am an experienced marketer, lean six sigma blackbelt, systemic change expert and manager. I have a clear vision of the ingredients needed to get groups 'on' for a different way of thinking and behaviour. and how to embed this into new routines. I was surprised when I discovered that the approach we adopt in our agency is almost 1:1 to the donut economics mindsets. That is why I am changing my own compass and am going to use it for companies and institutions and the city of Rotterdam.
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Elena Biryukova
I am a co-founder at Impact Capsule, an R&D center that helps companies respond to complex sustainability ambitions like building business resilience, supporting the transition to a low-carbon future, or enabling progress on ESG priorities, enforce their sustainability and social responsibility.
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Kyohee 규희 Kim
천안시, 충청남도, 대한민국
Hi! I am an activist based in South Korea. I studied urban planning in Korea and sociology in the Netherlands. I experienced working in Sri Lanka and Mongolia, and Korea. I've published research articles on housing development in developing countries and the home experiences of Syrian refugees in the Netherlands. Hope to have a chance to be connected to many friends interested in doughnut economics, and hope to make it happen in our daily lives to make this world better!
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Jose Batista
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Adolfo Chautón Pérez
Cáceres, Extremadura, España & Marvão, Alentejo, Portugal
I am Spanish, I have a degree in Geography, a Masters in Strategic Territorial Development and have been living betwenn Spain in Portugal, in the frontier since October 2019. Professionally, I have 20 years of experience, always as a freelancer, working in different areas related to the territory: planning, participation, dynamization... For the last 15 years I have been working as a facilitator in territorial innovation and socio-ecological entrepreneurship, both as a facilitator of processes, as a trainer and mentor of social innovation projects or as a writer of several strategic territorial planning projects based on social innovation, both at regional and national level in Spain and internationally. As an independent researcher, I have developed several projects in which the Doughnut Economics model is always one of the strategic components. + info I am currently coordinating the BoraBeirã project in which the "LojaPlaneta" initiative is integrated. [Banner_Embajadora.png] [ ] #EMBAJADORA_ADE https://www.alianzadonut.es/