Meet the DEAL Community

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.

Mérida

Mother of two, I believe in the possibilities of collective intelligence to build a better world. My professional background is linked to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship policies/programmes, creativity, public innovation and always, cooperation and work with other peers at international level,  #impacteducation #internationalnetwork #buildingbridges #collaborationprojects #values #ruralterritories

Barcelona, Spain

I work as an architect  for companies. I have been studying at University of Barcelona  since september 2023  "Master in  Environmental Management in private Companies and the Public Adminsitration. Resources, Communication and Change."

Alepochori, Arkadia, Greece

We are a family (Athena Lamberis (Lampiri) & Christopher D.Z. Mason based in Arkadia, Greece within a chestnut, pine & oak forest and acting as stewards on land we are regenerating - applying food forest and permacultural practices as an educational farm and area to further the education of ecology and our human-nature connection in innovative and creative ways.   My husband, Chris and I come from educational, film and creative writing backgrounds with experience in living on the fringe of wild spaces, such as the ocean coastal river mouths in Nicaragua, the Cape Point peninsula of South Africa and now in the ancestral land of my grandmother's village, Alepochori, Arkadia. We want to be a part of a network that considers social and environmental interconnectivity for a more thriving and inspiring future for generations to come. We have a 5 year old daughter and want to help foster a community of young people who understand their actions and the impacts it has on a larger scale for living plants, creatures and natural resources on the planet.  

Gippsland, Australia

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Alex and I live with my young family including three cheeky chickens in a small town in Gippsland. I love spending time in nature, especially hiking at Wilson's Prom. In a previous life I taught corporate English in Spain and developed teaching material for books and an online language platform. Now, as the Community Lead @ Regen Gippsland I'm looking forward to connecting with the DEAL community 🍩 and putting Gippsland on the map 🌏

Berlin, Germany

I am Humboldt Fellow (Professor W-1) at Freie Universität Berlin, "Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2023" by Stanford University. I have published more than 40 papers, with three Highly Cited Papers and one Top Paper. I have a Google Scholar H-index of 21 and more than 2000 citations. I am Editorial Board Members of Environmental Technology & Innovation (SCI Q1), Sustainable Development (SSCI Q1) and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (SSCI Q1). Reseach in Environmental Economics, Climate Modelling, Doughnut Economics, etc. New Paper: Assessing the sustainability of socio-economic boundaries in China: a downscaled “safe and just space” framework (npj Climate Action) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-023-00062-5

I am a retail and operations expert with new PMP certification, having entered the Utilities sector as an IT analyst. I'd like to utilize my business background to move into am industry utilizing donut or circular economic frameworks. 

UK

A Responsible Leader, trying to do my bit, moving us towards a more just, sustainable, and peaceful future.

Mexico City

I am an student of 3th semester of PhD. on economics at the Economic Research Institute of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). My research is about biophisical limits of mexican economy, but I have a strong interest to develop a doughnut economic model for Mexican economy. I would really love to receive guidance in this regard. I had worked on climate change since 2007, mostly on GHG mitigation actions and GHG inventories using GHG protocol and IPCC guidelines.     I worked for 8 yearsat the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC),   I  and I was part of the team that developed the Fourth and Fifth National Communications, and First BUR for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). But it was right after this job that I realized I had to know economics, and I did a master's degree in economics at the same institute. I believe that economics has led humanity in actions and thought, and if you want to make a proposal, it should go in that direction. I am also taking the second module of Common earth and I can contribute to this network everything I know about ecological footprints, carbon footprints, emissions inventories and systems thinking, as well as what will result from my research.