Meet the DEAL Community

Ashland, Oregon, United States of America

I work with the Post Growth Institute and am passionate about how we thrive within ecological limits.

Potsdam, Brandenburg, Deutschland

Independent Candidate for the German federal parliament elections. Building change with grassroots organizing in Potsdam. Former Greenpeace campaigner for engagement, Extinction Rebellion activist, organizer

New York, United States of America

I am an emerging consultant, scholar, and educator based in the New York City area. I currently serve as the Creative Director of The Climate Anticipation Project. My Ph.D is in religious studies and ecological ethics from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York. I am a former president of the Mid-Atlantic region of the American Academy of Religion (MAR-AAR), of which he is still actively involved as the co-chair of the Comparative Religion and Ecology section. With his MAR-AAR colleagues he recently published his first edited volume Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals.

Wiltshire

I'm passionate about how we educate the next generation to think quantitatively about the challenges the planet faces, embedding sustainable development into the curriculum from early years in a way that not only builds awareness but the motivation and skills to effect real change. My background is across Health and Education driving the use of digital technologies to improve lives.  Covid has shown that it is possible, albeit in extreme circumstances, to change behaviour at scale and we need to capitalise on this to tackle the larger challenges associated with a sustainable future. We can't expect people to take the health of the planet seriously if we can't convince them to manage their own wellbeing.  

Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

Always learning. Still undecided if I'm more of a cynic or an optimist. Background in operations (production, SCM).

Varese, Lombardia, Italy

Hi - I'm the Sustainability lead for parents at my children's school, working with an expert to translate a corporate sustainability strategy into one suitable for our school.

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Passionate about the environment,( I'm a scuba diver) and about social equality (I run a group of day nurseries in Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, Hampshire, IOW), recently became a B. Corp., trying to lead an increasingly sustainable group to protect our children's future.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hi all. I’m a Regenerative Practitioner, Architect and founding Principal of Lateral Agency – a regenerative development consultancy and research & capacity-building platform; founded as a social venture in the wake of the IPCC’s 2018 landmark Special Report. We focus on helping organizations and communities leverage civic infrastructure projects as catalysts for (re)investing in mutual flourishing - now and through time. As a mother and unsettled settler, born on the Indigenous territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat Nations, I’m raising my daughter on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and səlilwətaɬ Nations as an uninvited guest. I’m working to learn and unlearn how to uphold my responsibilities to these lands and to uplift the wisdom and self-determination of those living in reciprocal relationship with them since time immemorial. I look forward to thinking into Doughnut Economics & DEAL through these lenses together.

Rochester, New York, United States of America

Simply human

London Borough of Lambeth, England, United Kingdom

Innovation Associate at Impact on Urban Health, an independent urban health foundation working to eradicate health inequalities in London.

Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

I am passionate about affecting change in myriad and collaborative ways. In my life, I have pursued this ideal through the tools of storytelling, partnerships and grassroots work; in areas of development, poverty, women, environment; and, by engaging strategies learned from communities, nature, nurture and life experiences. I am currently a journalist and a sustainability communication professional, soon to be an MBA candidate and on my way to becoming a practitioner and catalyst for the regenerative and circular economy. I believe the only way to make a difference is, "Be the change".

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Founder of Open Risk (aka the open future of risk management). Physicist, Risk Manager, Developer. I am moderating the reddit channel sustainableFinance.

Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand

Graphic Designer and Sustainable Development Advocate

São Paulo, Brasil

Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Catharina Any Sulistyowati (Any) has a Bachelor's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, and a Master Degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. She joined a two-year fellowship at the Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) in 1998-2000 and Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program in 2007-2008. She is the founder and coordinator of KAIL, a not-for-profit organization in Indonesia that facilitates learning and action planning processes for sustainable development. Through KAIL, she had facilitated various groups, such as young people, the urban poor, village leaders, women, government, and social organizations.

Kottayam, Kerala, India

Nandu  S Nair is a research scholar at Tuscany Universities PhD program in Economics at the University of Pisa, Florence and Siena, Italy working on the themes of Public Debt, Income Inequality and Developing Economies. He has completed a Master's in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and then worked as an Academic Associate in Economics Area at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. His areas of interest include mainly Developmental Macroeconomics and Public Finance. Apart from academics, he co-founded Economiga, a platform for economic aspirants in India. Nandu also plays eastern percussion instruments and enjoys playing football in his past time.

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Brussels, Belgium

Strategic sustainability & governance consultant for medium to big companies. My values: positive energy, commitment, teaming, trust. MBA and experience as a board-member and as an impact-entrepreneur.

São Paulo, Brasil

Professional in Business Administration and passionate about sustainability, education and protection of the planet.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Boulogne Sur Mer, Buenos Aires, Argentina

5 years ago after organizing a Family Day for 2,500 people, I saw the balance in waste and became aware of the great environmental damage that can be done just for fun, I was shocked. Immediately afterwards, I created green devices where the children learned to separate at source for better use, since this material was then taken away by cooperatives to sell it for recycling, thus infecting their parents and we managed to mitigate, but the enthusiasm did not last long. I could quickly see that the third R (recycle) is by far the most ineffective. I researched, studied and graduated in waste and founded “A TRANSFORMAR. Waste + People + Environment”. The impact is still small but it goes to the bottom of the problem in everything I undertake. Last year, reading Kate's book, I co-founded a multidisciplinary group and became a promoter and activist for Donut Economics in order to achieve greater impact in different areas: school, community, municipality.

Auckland, Nova Zelândia

Experienced Marketing professional with an entrepreneurial soul and ability to communicate effectively as well as manage different teams/projects. I'm committed to working towards a more socially equal and environmentally sustainable world.

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

16 years of experience in the academia, associate professor at the Department of English studies since 2016, PhD in 2011 in environmental humanities, 15 publications, two books and 15 conferences, project coordinator of the three-year program “Environment, Resources, society” (3rd year of Licence + Master’s degree) opening in 2021-22, member of two European projects and coordinator of two others, member of Le Ruche and ESEH (research groups in environmental history), regular appearance in the media, co-animator of the blog env.narrative.org/, co-direction of 3 short films on the history of mining.

Cordoba, Argentina

Author, Educator, Conservationist, Motivational Speaker, Grass roots Activist, Founder of La Lucena