Meet the DEAL Community

Helsinki, Etelä-Suomi, Finlandia

Hi! I am a design thinker creating sustainability strategies for companies, organizations, and governments. I use systems thinking, participatory methods, transition theory, and a human-planet-centric approach. I am a Mexican based in Helsinki and I work as a freelance consultant.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

I recently graduated college at the University of Texas at Austin. I am now living in Nashville, TN and working as a middle school teacher.

Hampton East, Victoria, Australia

I'm a sustainability consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally from Scotland, I have worked in climate, energy and sustainability for most of the last decade and in social justice campaigns and policy for about 6 years before that. I live with my partner and our ridiculously cute puppy Remy and when I'm not advising governments and companies on sustainability, I love drawing and painting, swimming in the sea and growing veggies in our stubbornly sandy back garden.

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

Recently quit my day job to focus on environmental campaigning and now run my local Greenpeace group.

Bern , Switzerland

Facilitating collaborations in local communities and orgs for regenerative futures

Mallow, Munster, Ireland

PhD student, working on the Re-Wind project which looks for repurposing solutions for wind turbine blades. I'm interested in Life Cycle Assessment and business models that are focused on repurposing of discarded items, from used baby goods to construction waste.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Associate Professor and Chair of Economics Calvin University My teaching and scholarship are focused on doughnut economics. My life's mission is to help shift the paradigm.

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Hello. I am a change management practitioner working with the United Nations. I pair my professional work with personal work in mindfulness meditation and time spent in nature and with art.

Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands

I am a researcher working on the design of regenerative agriculture systems for the Netherlands. My passions include, among others, climate justice, food justice, sustainable agriculture, human nutrition, degrowth.

Torbay, England, United Kingdom

Passivhaus Designer and Architectural Technologist with a passion for the co-benefits of good quality building design.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

With a love of Movies and a VFX (visual effects) background in Hollywood Feature Films / Post Production Effects a change of career was needed. From September 2021 I shall be studying an MA in Mass Timber Design in Barcelona (CAD solid timber buildings and virtually thanks to COVID). Having lived in the UK's first purpose built housing co-operative since 2000 I recently co-founded and am a board member of a Community Land Trust in South East London with an aim to build more housing co-operatives on community asset locked land. I'm also hoping to create a platform housing co-op incubator, an app to raise finance to build housing co-ops, hostels and hotels and house key workers, co-ops workers, the homeless and tourists alike..

Ramsey, Isle of Man

A freelance medical writer with a strong interest in improving our relationship with the natural world

Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia

I am self-employed professional in the area of social entrepreneurship wanting to do sth different in this world.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Specialist property developer interested in applying donut economics to support and help create eco-communities.

Berlin, Germany

A curious soul looking to dip into the sustainable development topics. Being a MBA & Engineering student I am fascinated by novel ideas in sustainable business and technology space. Working in clean tech company aiming to transform business processes into sustainable behavior. I enjoy exploring new concepts that address our modern societal challenges and provide feasible solutions for them. Love to collaborate, co-develop and turn concepts to reality. Anthropology and human mind enthusiast. Happy to connect and learn (:

Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Working towards a better future for all. Wanting to restore the ecological paradise that our planet has been for ages.

Visby, Gotlands län, Sverige

I want to change my future by taking action. I get inspired and company within my network Teansition Bureau, a digital network for transitioners in Sweden.

Plano, Texas, United States of America

Program Director | Cloud/NFVi/SDN Enabler | Telecom Executive | Lifelong Learner | Sustainable Finance | Operations | Customer Relations A young and dynamic individual with proven project and people management skills, 20 years of experience and Senior Leadership experience in Customer Service / Operations / Software Development with challenging work demands. Delivered significant gains to bottom line by negotiating Liquidated Damages. 7+ years in customer facing role as R&D Customer Leader and Technical Support Leader. 12 years in People Management of Software Development, System Test and Software Support (9 years in Senior Leadership role). 4+ years as a Senior Software Architect (Rational Rose, UML). 4 years in Software/Systems Engineering and Software Quality. 3 years in fast paced startups. Experienced in Wireline and Wireless technologies. Managed complex projects involving multiple sites. Directly managed an offshore development team in India for 2 years.

Athens, Αττική, Greece

Since I remember myself, I always had a passion for ways of improving the relationship between humans and the environment. I am still proud of the idea I had as a kid to put gardens on rooftops so that we'd have more green in our neighborhood and more "parks" to play. Ahead of my time! :)

New York, United States of America

Gary is Founder and President, Billion Minds Institute, and Visiting Scientist, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist who approaches mental health as a building block of social policy and progress, he recently founded Billion Minds as a non-profit policy and “think-action tank.” The intention of Billion Minds is to link mental health to problems of great scale, specifically to the climate crisis, and to safeguarding sustainable societies through a humane social climate. Gary is the former Executive Deputy Commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where he led the Division of Mental Hygiene and its development and implementation of the innovative NYC-wide public mental health initiative, ThriveNYC. Before joining city government, he was Medical Director for Behavioral Health across the Health and Hospitals Corporation of the City of New York and Director of the NYU Program in Global Mental Health.

Madrid, Cundinamarca, Colombia

Empresaria con 16 años de experiencia , Experta en Modelos de Negocios y Transformación Organizacional ,

Sarratt, England, United Kingdom

South African of English descent, moved permanently to the UK in 1999. Working in the IT industry as technical solution architect for data protection for large US corporate. Graduated from University of Cape Town BA (Economics) & BSc (Computer Science). Family man with two grown up daughters and two grandchildren. For leisure enjoy playing and watching various sports, reading widely, and listening to thought provoking long form podcasts on science, philosophy, the state of the world and the like. Have long been looking for a viable alternative to capitalist economics and was introduced by a friend to Kate Raworth’s TED talk and subsequently reading the book.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

I’m a web designer and concerned citizen. I’ve come to activism late in life, so there’s a lot of catching up to do.

Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia

I have recently started to really engage with our local community. I am amazed with how many good things are happening and discovering such passion that is starting to make waves. My line of work is as a Food Technologist. I work closely with local food businesses in the area and want to help them on their journey to focus on more sustainable practices for the future.