Meet the DEAL Community

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Top 100 Global Social Entrepreneur SE100 recipient l Social Innovator I Impact Investor l Smart Communities Promoter I NED #PlantBased 🌱

Bilbao, Euskadi, España

Jorge Garcia del Arco is co-founder and CEO of AQUADAT, a water deeptech researching and engineering solutions for water challenges & nexus.  This project has been a MIT Water Innovation Prize finalist and Galileo Master regional winner. It currently holds the H2020 Green Deal Seal of Excellence (awarded by the European Commission) and the INNOVATIVE SME Seal (awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation). In 2022 it was selected among the 35 European organizations by EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the Innowise Scale Community Water Scarcity programme. In 2023 it was awarded for the Data Science transfer service by BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, a world-class interdisciplinary Research Center in the field of Applied Mathematics.  Executive MBA from IE Business School, he has 20 years of management experience across the value chain of the Telecommunications Industry. The last 10 years he has focused on social and environmental innovation projects. He has been co-organizer of TEDx Bilbao and Financial Congress Digital Meeting. He was elected Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Bilbao Hub, a World Economic Forum community that empowers youth to play an active role in shaping local, regional and global agendas. One of the G-100 of TERRIS (Territories and Social Innovation), a process of co-creation of a New Rurality to build a new rural identity for the 21st century. As of 2022, he is a member of the Board of Directors of PTEA, a public-private cooperation network for the promotion of R&D in the water sector. It currently has 57 associated entities, representing more than 450 organizations. His confession: He´s a fan of Mr. R. Buckminster Fuller “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Aotearoa New Zealand

Hi, I live in Aotearoa and I'm interested in environmental issues.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Projectleader and head of education at the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (Arcam)

Wigan, England, United Kingdom

A passionate professional weirdo & a motivated mostly hairless monkey, with an appetite for all kinds of end to end project work, development of people & improving society.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

I am Comms & Engagement Lead at Climate Action Leeds, working for a 'zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s'. This is an ambitious, Lottery-funded project linking up local and city-wide communities to act, plan and build a movement of action and change. We are using Doughnut methodologies to help us do this, we have set up the Leeds Doughnut Coalition and are working with the University of Leeds on our first sketch city portrait.

Vallendar, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

I am a final-year business student at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. I am currently writing my Bachelor's Thesis about Circular Economy.

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

I am a veterinarian and Founder of Cherished Pets, the world's first certified BCorporation veterinary service. I am passionate about the role companion pets play in human health and wellbeing and seek multi-disciplinary care solutions to ensure that the benefits of healthy pets are accessible to all people regardless of their status.

Bargteheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland

Tomelilla kommun, Skåne län, Sverige

Organisational Development Manager at the municipality of Tomelilla. Background in philosophy & public sector innovation. Involved in integrating DE in the municipality as the first municipality in Sweden.

Singapore, Singapore

I work is an independent consultant on projects related to just transition. I post reports, article data tools for sustainable cities. My recent work in the past few years on topics in Singapore include urban farming and climate change mitigation policy. I have collaborated on projects with local grassroot climate action groups in Singapore in 2019-2020. My current work under Singapore Green New Deal is research on social dynamics in self-organizing systems and movement building for just transition implementation in local communities. Skills: Research, Data Science, Education, Energy systems, AgriTech, Chemical Engineering, Systems and design thinking, community organizing, stakeholder relationships, Workshops and webinars

Fribourg, Switzerland

lecturer in social work and researcher interested in sustainability, degrowth and how to address at the same time social inequalities and ecological limits.

San Sebastián, Euskadi, España

I am a researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, I hold a Ph.D. in Business and Territorial Competitiveness, Innovation, and Sustainability from the University of Deusto (Spain). I am an early-career innovation researcher with a focus on firm innovation in emerging economies (Doing, Using, and Interacting with little Research and Development capabilities). After reading Doughnut Economics I want to get involved in this community and use my platform to convey its ideas to my peers at Orkestra and to the regional economic agents, changemakers, and policymakers in the Basque Country.

Auckland, New Zealand

Chair - Doughnut Economics Advocates New Zealand (DEANZ). We are a New Zealand based Doughnut Economics advocacy group for people wanting to be involved in the fight against climate change, environmental degradation, and social imbalance. DEANZ members are committed to working towards a sustainable ecological and cultural future by putting the concept of Doughnut Economics into action. DEANZ holds regular Meetups with inspiring speakers on Doughnut Economics topics. The projects our members are involved with are continually expanding: revitalising the Repair Café movement in New Zealand; establishing Urban Composting and Community Gardens; building a free online healthy eating recipes database.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Greetings from Toronto.

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

I co-founded the Society of Sustainability Practitioners with a vision of sustainability at the heart of each and every organization, decision-maker, and citizen. I graduated MS in Sustainability Management in the Ateneo de Manila University, where I teach systems thinking, sustainability and environmental management. My interests center on systems analysis, social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Long career in Engineering and High Performance Computing. Running a startup that is using technology to facilitate civic engagement, deliver services and share resources to build vibrant communities.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hello, I'm really interested in supporting action to reverse global environmental degradation. I’ve always been concerned about the environmental degradation I am very much a part of. My efforts have been inadequate and commitment insufficient to what I believe is the most important issue of my lifetime. Deep down, I was feebly hoping that there were smart people who were working on this task and that I could leave it to them. Of course, there are, but I would like to be involved in whatever way I can to “take out the trash” or do whatever other menial tasks I can to support such leaders.

Takoma Park, Maryland, United States of America

Writer/editor for nonprofits

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

I work on the ecological transition and I am passionate about it.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I'm a teacher of The Global Impacts of Fashion Merchandise at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. A course that seeks to find solutions to the social and environmental damage caused by the fashion industry.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Be kind & make things better

Villaviciosa, Asturias / Asturies, España

I am a retired airline pilot with a high level picture of the planet and their living creatures. 

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

I am an entrepreneur that is tired of the race for building unicorns and believes that there is a better way of doing business.