Meet the DEAL Community

Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rewilding to live as we should on this beautiful planet. Hoping to meet like minded people to reestablish an ecosystem of ideas and action. 

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Impact Hub London is a social enterprise and a part of the Impact Hub Global Network. Our mission is to accelerate entrepreneurial action that benefits people and the planet.  We follow our mission through two arms: Firstly, we have a working space in Kings Cross & Euston and hence a community of entrepreneurs, secondly, we provide business support programmes focused on inclusion, climate change, and life sciences. Our vision is to make impact-driven entrepreneurship a reality for everyone.

Glasgow

Hello, DEAL Community! I'm Brian, the founder and managing director of EGG Lighting, established in 2013 with a vision for sustainable intelligent lighting and sensor control systems. With a M.Sc. in Communications Technology & Policy from the University of Strathclyde, my mission has been to pioneer sustainable solutions through advanced circular techniques like remanufacturing and digital product passports. As an Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Circular Glasgow Ambassador, I am deeply committed to the principles of circular economy and sustainability. Under my leadership, EGG Lighting has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Green Apple Awards 2022 for Lighting Remanufacture and the CeeD 2022 award for Remanufacturing. Our work emphasizes creating environments that allow people to thrive, reflecting my passion for merging technology with sustainability. #SustainableUrbanDevelopment #InnovativeTechnologies #CircularEconomy

Netherlands and U.S.

Decades of business and organizational development, mentoring, influencing, SME deal making, investment and operations. Shifting focus to development and expansion of worker co-ops as a form of business ownership, education and community development. Focused on conversions and ways to develop portfolios of worker owned businesses.

Dublin, Ireland

Mexican sociologist and aspiring writer based in Dublin. Very excited to be part of this community.  Sociólogo y escritor mexicano radico en Dublín. Muy contento de unirme a esta comunidad.  

Aurich, Kreis Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany

I am an Enterprise Architect by profession and a learning explorer by passion. Always have been curious what knowledge is and how learning works, first for myself, later in my job, still later when I cofounded an alternative private school for self-determined learning. In all my undertakings it was always the people and how they fostered their relationships that made (or sometimes broke) success.  I am Thinker and a Maker which sometimes helpful and sometimes exhausting. For more than a decade now,  I am building and testing my personal sustainability model, and now I want to help spreading this change. I am also a visual and creative person, so the Doughnut was immediately appealing for me because it is so easy to approach and to see the whole system effect at a glance.  I like the structure and the content I found here, so I will stay around for some time 😉 Special interests:     

Linda-a-Velha, Lisbon, Portugal & Marvão, Alentejo, Portugal

I have been connected to the #Transition Network for 12 years, either through a local initiative or in the national hub. I work as a volunteer in facilitating and creating resilient communities, using the principles and ethics of permaculture, transition, sociocracy, citizenship circles (neighborhood circles), among others. What brings me to DEAL is an experience prior to the #reconomy project, which has some principles similar to the doughnut economy.

William Strauss, MBA, PhD - William Strauss is the President and founder of FutureMetrics, LLC www.FutureMetrics.com.  Over the past two decades, the FutureMetrics’ consulting team has grown and is currently recognized as the leading set of experts in the wood pellet sector.  Bill continues to publish papers on a variety of subjects relevant to the wood pellet sector.  He is also a founder and a Director of Maine Energy Systems www.MaineEnergySystems.com, the largest manufacturer of European style automatic pellet fueled central heating systems in North America.  Bill has been named as one of the most influential leaders in the biomass sector in 2016 and again in 2017 by Argus Media and is the 2012 recipient of the International Excellence in Bioenergy award.  In 2021 a dashboard built by Dr. Strauss won the Limitless Business Intelligence Dashboard award at a major business intelligence conference, IBIS.  Bill has more than forty years of experience in the renewable energy sector including 10 years operating large waste-to-energy plants in the 1980s.  He has an MBA (specializing in finance) and a PhD (economics and earth systems science) both from the University of New Hampshire.

Bangkok, Thailand

Almonte, Ontario, Canada

Community compost composer.  Climate Network Lanark, Chair

Cardiff

As the Founder of iðun and with a 14-year tenure in homelessness prevention and social housing, my journey has been driven by a deep commitment to social good and innovation. From managing homeless shelters to strategic roles with community groups and sitting on boards of national charities, I've witnessed the challenges non-profits face in fundraising and the eagerness of businesses to engage in meaningful CSR and ESG efforts. This experience sparked the vision for iðun: a platform democratizing access to powerful tools for social good, enabling organizations of all sizes to launch health, well-being, and environmental challenges. Our flagship global event, One Million Steps, embodies our mission to integrate movement with mindfulness, offering a comprehensive toolkit for life's journey. Our achievements include prestigious awards and incubator participations, testament to our impact: over £140,000 raised by 850+ fundraisers and more than one billion steps walked by 1750+ participants. At iðun, we're not just building a platform; we're fostering a community where every step contributes to a larger cause. Join us in our mission to tackle the pressing issues of our time through movement, well-being, and unparalleled community engagement. Where will your Million Steps take you?

Amsterdam

I am a passionate water and climate change, young researcher with experience in consultancy and journalism. Currently, I am collaborating with the NEWAVE - Next Water Governance project and also working freelance for circular economy projects. I have my column in Ethic Magazine and VIA Empresa, where I write weekly about these topics. 

Morecambe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

I'm an artist and part of The Good Things Collective, a creative sustainable Community in Morecambe. The Good Things is focussed on working together as a community, to secure the necessary skills, stuff and space that our community needs to thrive.  They inspire, promote and support the incubation and growth of community rooted and led initiatives that share our creative, social and sustainable ethos.  I run The Morecambe Community Riso Press which has grown from the GTC nurturing.  It is an artist-led, not for profit CIC providing access to our Riso printer for artists and groups to engage with this vibrant, low carbon way of printing, in order to create DIY prints, posters, flyers and zines. Creating connections with communities, charities, and collectives; activists, artists and individuals, who enjoy seeing things through the binoculars of creativity.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Ioannis Konstantopoulos is an FNS Researcher at the University of Lausanne. He is, also, a sustainability consultant, Founder and CEO of The Sports Footprint, a sustainability consultancy focusing on the world of sports while engaging fans, organizations, and key stakeholders. Ioannis has been working with clients, including but not limited to the Navarino Challenge, Hellenic Football Federation, AEK FC, Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, Pledgeball, Kazakhian Tae Kwon Do Federation, and the Hellenic Basketball Federation. He has also, developed several educational courses in sport and sustainability for the Football Business Academy, the International Olympic Academy, the Athens University of Economics and Business, and the European Association for Sport Management (EASM); to name but a few. His research interests include the intersection of sport and sustainability and the application of new technologies in sport.

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

I am a retired Ford Motor Company executive, with deep experience in negotiation, large scale organizational change, on line learning system design, conflict of all varieties and a passionate environmentalist since 1968. I lived in the USA for 25 years and worked with a local environmental group there as their exec advisor. I have been active in left political action for over 50 years. I am an economist and economic historian by education. 

Germany, Baden Württemberg, 97896 Freudenberg

As managing director of the hilbra GmbH I have developed a management system that shows the economic, social and ecological costs of our products and also how we can  compensate them. A short overview you find in the following research report: https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT:1837328382/Easy-EPD-Teilvorhaben-3-Anforderungsprofil-%C3%96kobilanzierung?cHash=3417d6ddc591995c9cae5bd974ab5e5b With our sustaincoin we make these results visible. The sustaincoin is also a communication tool in our sustaiability reports: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319467762_Der_SustainCoin_als_Nachhaltigkeitslabel  https://www.hilbra.de/images/Nachhaltigkeitsberichte/aktualisiert/Nachhaltigkeitsbericht_23.pdf With my senseholder concept I am looking for a new opportunity that slowly the homo eoconomicus, or known as rational man, can leave the scene. In addition I am an university lecturer. In this function, with the structural engineer students, I figure out how to calculate more sustainable building details. The managementsystem I developed in business I also can use as education tool. The concept of a "Down to Earth Economy" I have developed is a monetary system. Knowing that not everything can be expressed by money I see an enormes potential in the doughnut economic view.  

Dronfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

I am a keen gardener with a lifelong love of Nature. Recently awareness of the inadequacies of growth economies, globalisation, rampant consumerism and the First Past the Post system have led me to an interest in localisation, improved democracy and of course, doughnut economics.

Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St, Economics Department, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, United States

Following successful years as an educator, a community-based entrepreneur, social enterprise developer, investor, and business and organization leader, during which I also provided support to our emerging regional eco-system to encourage startups, I am now a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Entrepreneurship.  I teach business economics and entrepreneurship, co-direct our Fimbel Innovation Lab, coordinate our entrepreneurship programming (curricular and co-curricular), and serve on the academic program committee of Entrepreneurship, Organizations, and Society (EOS).  EOS establishes the social and environmental context for entrepreneurial action; our entire approach since 2016 has been to ensure that entrepreneurial action and all aspects of business are directly tied to social and environmental issues and impacts.

Barcelona, Spain

I am a researcher in the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona. I'm mostly interested in #fisheries,  #marine and  related themes.

India

Hi,  I am an Engineer working as a Technology Specialist in large multi-national company. I have read Doughnut Economics book and inspired by Kate Raworth economic story. It's truly inspiring, and it's not that scary what I thought about economics. I am eager to pull the ideas from the page and implement in my organization, at home and everywhere.  Thank you, Veer

Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hallo:) Ich studiere Medizin in Bonn und engagiere mich in meiner Freizeit in der Greenpeace Ortsgruppe Bonn. Vor einem Jahr habe ich mich erstmals mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Geld bzw. Wirtschaft auseinandergesetzt und seither lässt mich das Thema nicht mehr los! Ich bin bereits mit der Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie e.V. vernetzt und möchte auch gerne diese Plattform kennenlernen, um mehr über die Donut-Ökonomie und die DEAL-Community zu erfahren!  Hello:) I study medicine in Bonn and am involved in the Greenpeace Bonn local group. A year ago I first learned about the connection between sustainability and money/ economy and still aspire to learn more about it! I am already connected to Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie e.V. (ecogood) and would also like to get to know this platform to find out more about the donut economy and the DEAL community!

United Kingdom

I am a chemical engineer with over 35 years in industry, research, development, and innovation.  I have been part of projects and programmes developing new sustainable products and processes and enhanced environmental control. I am currently the Chair of the IChemE's Sustainability Special Interest Group, which has the aim of developing the understanding of sustainability, and encouraging sustainable activity by the Institution's Members.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Project Manager at UN Global Compact Network Canada. Co-organizer of Doughnut Economics Collective Toronto.

Douala, Littoral, Cameroon

Ashunchong paul Tanyi is a Cameroon based Attorney at law,member of the Cameroon bar Association and managing partner of Ashunchong and partners law firm in Douala .my firm provides a wide range of legal services to world wide clients and deals in corporate and commercial,cross border deals,commercial contracts,mergers and acquisition deals,oil and gas,maritime and shipping,Telecom, investment deals,Banking,pharmaceuticals,company formation,NGOS ,customs law,mining and energy law deals.