Meet the DEAL Community

Timișoara, Timiș, Romania

Portland, Oregon, United States

I am part of Measure Meant, we are a team that helps organizations understand their environmental impacts, plan for climate change, and develop social and environmental sustainability strategies. I have been doing this work for four years now and have increasingly felt like the work I've been doing is perhaps more distraction than meaningful change making (though there have been glimmers in our work).  

Prague, Czech Republic

'If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?'  (Anita Roddick) - Doughnut Economics, p. 233

Taunton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

I'm an interior architect working throughout Europe.  A recent  MA in environmental humanities, currently studying regenerative economics in my belief is that holistic  - doughnut  type - elements and policy must be in symbiosis for healthy home and business planning and decisions.

Hong Kong

Hi! I am Joyce. I am passionate about improving lives and sustainability. I recently co-founded Better Futures, which is a purpose-driven design consultancy. Our projects span corporate sustainability strategy and implementation, learning and development, and nonprofit service innovation. Previously, I was a government consultant in Hong Kong and the UK, and a project manager at a nonprofit, leading the R&D of various social innovation projects on the topics of affordable housing, education and more.      

紀尾井町7番 千代田区, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Professor Sophia U Tokyo Japan, sustainability education, edu in Estonia, Lifelong Learning; UNESCO Translation & Sustainable Futures Prog. coordinator, 🇪🇪e-resident

Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands

Economist, donut economy lover

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Hi, I've have recently completed my MSc Ecological Economics in Leeds. Since then I have been the Oxfordshire Doughnut Project Data Lead across the Four Lenses for the Preliminary Data Portrait:  • Global Ecological Lens: based on planetary boundaries model, downscaling data to county or regional levels and applying and improving on best practice methodologies. • Global Social: designed a data methodology applying material footprinting data to Global Social dimensions (aligned with Sustainable Development Goals) to build a coherent narrative around local consumption and global social impact. • Local Social and Ecological: supervising and producing calculations across all dimensions and their visualisations. Looking forward to see where this doughnut goes and what opportunities for engagement arise from it! 

Pavia, Pavia, Italy

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

I am a seasoned international development professional and educational leader, having worked in grassroots/international NGOs, international schools and the public sector in 7 countries in the last 15 years. I am now keen to focus on climate change, sustainability and justice.  

Goa, India

Hello there: I have been following the studies of Doughnut Economics, especially THE AMSTERDAM CITY PROJECT.  The drive to find a balance between social and business intrigues me.  And I believe change can only happen from school-level learning. We (unirisefoundation.org) are a non-profit organization based out of Goa, India where we are hoping to save the biodiversity and culture that Goa is known for through learning in schools, focused on children with disabilities. We want to give the children the opportunity to ask questions that will require responses until they are convinced for their lies the gap between destruction and saving Goa (and India and the world). So, it is a big DEAL for WE MATTER and together WE CAN make a difference. Cheers, Titus

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

I am a volunteer organizer with the informal group - Imagine Lethbridge.  Our vision is to apply Doughnut Economic principles and practices to our community so that Lethbridge becomes the healthiest city in Canada to live, thrive and age well.   I am also the national VP of Advocacy for the Canadian Federation of University Women, with a vision that women and girls are educated and empowered to make transformational changes in the world, by promoting fellowship, continuous learning and empowerment to achieve educational and economic equality and social justice.   My work with CFUW advances the status of women.   I am newly a board member of the Lethbridge Community Wellness Assessment Board, where we review applications for funding by the social service agencies assisting those residents needing support.  

Denver/Lakewood Colorado United States

Healing thru Reiki, Shamanic Practices, Plant-Based Foods for Medicine, Support & Sustaining Active Loving Lifestyles, completely Re-Wilded "yards" now create a "parkland" in the middle of Neighborhood; Artist, Writer, and retired Attorney. 

Nederland, Colorado, United States

Mateo Beauvineau is a rising senior who loves to fish, ski, hike, and camp in the mountains of Colorado where he grew up. He is passionate about protecting the environment and is exploring the field of environmental economics through the IB diploma program’s Extended Essay. He volunteers at the local hospital and leads an environmental and international impact club at his high school, the Fairview Institute. He raised $17,000 for an outdoor greenspace at his school, which expanded to a tree canopy, as well as upcycled solar panels into solar charging stations which were sent to schools and soldiers in Ukraine. Mateo hopes to study  and environmental economics in college and likes learning useful skills. 

Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

Bióloga e Designer de experiências de aprendizagem. Criadora da NiDo Estúdio - ambiente para curadoria e desenvolvimento de materiais de aprendizagem e vivências centradas na natureza e sociedade [Biomimética e ESG]

Tirana, Albania

Organisation and management researcher, interested in contributing to management studies as a tool to tackling grand societal challenges. 

Germany

Manuel S. Sand is a professor of Outdoor Sports and Adventure Management at the University of Applied Management in Treuchtlingen, Germany. His research interests include adventure tourism, mountain bike tourism, well-being and adventure activities, nature protection and outdoor sports and the effects of experiential learning in the outdoors.

London, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Director at Useful Projects (part of the Useful Simple Trust), a leading sustainability consultancy who is part of DEAL, trailblazing the transition towards a regenerative future.   Championing Doughnut Economics in communities, regions and the sport sector.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Hi, I am Melanie, a finance profesionnal for over 16 years after studies of Business Administration and some Economics.  In the last 8 years, besindes Finance, I was in charge of CSR of a SME in Geneva and my interest in sustainable business transformation gott bigger every day though often created conflictual interests with my financial objectives. I got increasingly ambitious in digging beyond carbon accounting in business' strategy and governance and beyond business in the bigger picture of the system we are operating and living in.  This is how I got interested in Donut Economics - quite late actually - and I was immediately fascinated by the logical and inclusive concept but moreover by Kate Raworth visionary and highly encouraging speeches. I am as well a big supporter of peer mentoring and collective intelligence for creating better ideas, innovation and engagement. As an enthousiastic cyclist in the city and in the mountains, I am very interested in mobility topics especially in terms of urban policies and transformation in my local environment and believe that the concept of the 15-minute city is part of the solution.    #15-minute city

84 Rue Marcadet, 75018 Paris, France

Technologically, I'm a fan of low-tech. Aesthetically, I find solar punk desirable. Professionally, I'm a strategic planner in the capitalist world, and I create strategies and narratives for brands, politicians and associations. I think it's important, as a society and as a species, to look ahead and dream of a desirable future. Especially in pessimistic times like these. I believe that hope is a powerful driving force, stronger than fear.  I like your economic, social and environmental diagnosis. Now it's time to create the narrative, to ‘visualize our future’ in order to create energies, synergies and make it a reality.  I'd like to be part of that. 

Sweden

North Devon

Lifelong concern for the planet and species . Interest in circular economy and reducing linear waste . Live as simply as I can with if societal constraints and infrastructure . Appalled at obsession with GDP growth model and its logical  conclusion . Heard Kate seaworthy speak on The Rest is Politics Rory Stewart , Alistair Campbell Podcast. Want to be part of the build to critical mass for change. 

Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Architect and Urban Planner, Master in Design and PhD in Engineering and Knowledge Management (UFSC). Post-doctoral student at the USP Global Cities Synthesis Center at the University of São Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies. Founder and coordinator of LabIC Novale, a civic laboratory dedicated to facilitating participatory design processes for urban media and the co-creation of solutions to issues of shared concern at the local level. Leader of the research group A Cidade e a Névoa, which investigates hybrid urban spaces, civic technologies, participatory mapping, locative media and location-based technologies applied to the urban experience. Co-founder of the Children's Books Going Mobile project, which explores the use of mobile technologies in digital children's books to create situated narrative experiences. She is a member of the Australia-Brazil Network for Research and Practice in Smart Cities.

Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France

I’m an American history-geography teacher at a bilingual middle and high school in Paris, interested in doughnut economics and post-growth solutions for the challenges facing humanity.