Meet the DEAL Community

Nijmegen

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

I am the Director of Placemaking at GO! Southampton, the Business Improvement District for Southampton city centre.

Netherlands

New York, New York, United States

Savannah, Georgia, United States

I'm the co-author and graduate coordinator of the Design for Sustainability program at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), a trans-disciplinary design program focused on facilitating sustainable change through systems thinking, design strategy, and behavior change. I've authored four books, including one on sustainable packaging, one on design, social innovation, and equity, and a volume of poetry on environmental degradation. I founded Re:Purpose Savannah in 2009, an award winning non-profit organization that facilitates the deconstruction of unwanted buildings and the innova­tive repurposing of building materials into community-based resources through multi-stakeholder engagement. I'm also Chief Regenerative Officer of 4 Fungi’s Regenerative, a circular economy, region-based food company. I'm on the Board of Directors of Catapult Design, a National Design Award winning non-profit design agency, and member of the Founders Circle of the Winterhouse Institute. 

South America

Worked for near 20 years as a climate change economist in LATAM, focusing on renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, sustainable finance, and 3E modelling. I am passionate about finding practical solutions to address climate change challenges, eager to contribute his expertise to the Doughnut Economics Lab's mission of creating a regenerative and distributive economy.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

United Arab Emirates

Berlin, Germany

Systems engineer interesting in the circular economy, regenerative businesses, and the yoga of life.

Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands

Hello 🖖, I am Michael and I am a passionate #FairTrade supporter. I am also a cat dad who spends his free time running or gardening. I help promote and grow a community of Fair Trade #Enterprises at the World Fair Trade Organisation. I join this community to learn how I can be part of a growing movement. 

Berlin, Massachusetts, United States

Working on building the infrastructure of intentional communities: housing communities of small, ecological homes with a common house, small farm and renewable energy on site. We envision this mode of living to help lower housing costs, cost of living and increase the sense of community among those living here. We aim to be multi-generational, with the elderly aging in place and children growing up in nature. 

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Robledillo de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain

Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia

Herne Hill, SE24 0HD, Lambeth, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Asturias, Spain

I'm a father and secondary school teacher, and I'm looking to apply what the people at  are discovering to my local community. I live in a rural part of the world, and the changes our farming community has seen over the past decade have been pretty alarming. With that in mind, I would like to make connections and build on some ideas with others on this platform. I am the furthest things from an expert, which is why I'm turning to you at the DEAL community to help. Primarily, I'd like to focus on initiatives,   and projects, with the goal of improving the in these areas, in local communities with the aim of building in our . Bigger picture projects would be something like , or making local communities more energy independent; also, improving to go beyond memorization but actually apply and synthesize what we're learning to improve the our lives and the lives of others. Lastly, I would also like to think about  , and bring in the older and wiser members of a community to advise, plan and implement ideas and strategies that will  improve the lives of the younger generations, and those to come. I believe this can a lot of this can be done by working with . I am also aware that this is not easy, and will require a   away from perpetual that is mostly individualistic and towards a richer, more world that is more community-focused. Thanks for reading this far, and please get in touch.

92130, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Architect, urban planner, and civic designer, he focuses his work on strategic planning and project management related to territory and community for organizations, institutions or communities.  He designs objects, spaces, games, methodologies and processes to generate healthy relational contexts, as well as the necessary conditions to facilitate community development and urban and social transformation as Mestura La Palma and Mestura Puerto. He is part of different national and international networks related to community culture, participatory urbanism or social economy where he continues to learn and connect ideas for a complex world.  Trained between Spain, Italy, England, and Argentina, countries where he has lived, he likes to put pieces together to make them work better. In his free time, he draws, plays chess, and tries to play guitar and piano. In groups, basketball, indoor soccer, and beers.

Sneek

Dorine van den Beukel - Nieuw Nijver (New Industrious) / Pleed The last decade Dorine has been actively involved in community building on diverse themes: textiles, sourcing of transition materials, mobility and local food connections. Working on her book about the need for knowledge of long gone local materials, as well as the production and use of those materials, she has created new craft networks such as Pleed — promoting the production and use of local wool in The Netherlands. Nieuw Nijver is in search of what defines a local shop and what can be used to create a sustainable, community-based and future-proof shop. www.nieuwnijver.nl / www.pleed.nl All sustainable transitions — whether they are food, energy or social transitions — benefit from good things close by. Good things close by are the basis of the new economy. Our new economy starts here.

Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom