Meet the DEAL Community

Stockholm

Rugby

Engineer and Academic with a decade of experience teaching sustainability to Master's level.

Rome

MD, Public Health resident. Passionate about #planetaryhealth. I am currently training at the Department of Epidemiology of the Lazio Region. 

Nashville TN

North Yorkshire

Retired from an Econ. Dev. Regen. background with post retirement training as a Teaching Assistant (a costly self investment scuppered by Covid. No regrets!).  BAMA Trinity College (matric 1979) but not your typical Cambridge grad. Family orientated, I love my progeny, and as we share neurodivergent genes I'm into civil and equal rights.

Liverpool, UK

Future (hopefully) economics student. Wanting to find out what is happening to usher the movement into a regenerative, distributive, growth agnostic etc. future. Seeing if there's anything I could do on a personal level and maybe to meet others in a similar situation.

Salem, Oregon

I'm a retired Unitarian Universalist minister and longtime activist for economic justice, care for the environment, universal healthcare and currently focused on mitigation of climate change.  I'm active in several group efforts to that end.  I am currently on the board of UUs for a Just Economic Community, and chair its task force for a Green New Deal. I have two sons and two grandchildren also living in the Pacific Northwest.  I live in the Pringle Creek Commuity in Salem which focuses on sustainability for its 30 acre campus.  I currently chair its Landscape Committee. I am very interested in Doughnut Economics because if our economic structures and popular persuasion, nationally and globally, do not change, we will not save life on our planet.  The "Doughnut" makes easily grasped sense of the dilemma and the solutions.

The Netherlands

I am a former journalist, who covered a range of interdisciplinary topics such as human rights, social justice, gender (in)equality, labour issues in the Gulf sector, politics and law. I am currently pursuing my -intense Master's in Development Studies (majoring in Governance and Develpment Policy) at Erasmus University. Besides journalism, I have worked as a content writer (India) and content marketeer (the Netherlands), as well as volunteered with numerous organizations engaged in education and  development.  I lived in Qatar for 20 years, studied and worked in India for 13 years, and have been residing in the Netherlands since 2021. 

Vancouver

We're the Environmental Committee at St. John's College: a graduate student residence at the University of British Columbia. We're looking to learn and share methods for making our building and culture more sustainable. 

Romsey, UK

byron bay

Brussels, Leeds

Hi, I'm Lieven (25) from Germany. I am eager to support the transition to economies beyond growth that promote the well-being of all citizens while respecting planetary boundaries. I was part of the Rethinking Economics network in Germany from 2017-2021 until I started focusing my research on ecological economics. I wrote a whide range of papers during my studies that deal with issues ranging from climate  justice, property rights, the morality of cap and trade systems, the link between capitalism and GDP growth and the philosophy of doughnut economics.  In my bachelor dissertations, I clarified the concept of rebound effects. My first master thesis treated the topic of competing paradigms in macroeconomic theories of GDP growth. My second master thesis will investigate what experts consider to be the most effective steps towards a postgrowth society and compare them with steps suggested by theories of change. For the time after my master degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Eocnomics (Groningen) as well as Ecological Economics (Leeds) I look for jobs in Brussels. I am grateful for all recommendations of how I could get involved in the movement.

Barcelona

I was trained as an architect, but after some existential crises I changed career to the arts, anyways, I am defintely enthusiastic to help flip the reality we found ourselves in, into a world that is on the other side of fascism, power and money... 

Buenos Aires Argentina

I am a Systems Engineer with more than 30 years of experience. I am about to start studying a postgraduate degree in Sustainable Development. I would like to develop my knowledge and activities to promote a change in the region where I live (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Switzerland

We are a movement of ordinary people, united across borders who agree that removing carbon from our atmosphere is in our common interest. The simplest way to demonstrate this agreement is to use carbon mitigation as a means to store, exchange and account for value amongst ourselves - as the basis for money.

Scotland

I'm a musician and have always been interested in the environment. Increasingly concerned at the government's focus on money above wellbeing and environmental health

Portugal

Philosophy professor (semi-retired) specialising in Daoist thought, arguably the first environmental philosophers who anticipated our current predicament about 2,300 years ago! Although my expertise is in Chinese philosophy, I began teaching a course on Environmental Philosophy because I believe it is the most important thing I could be teaching: how to understand the human relationship to the rest of Nature; how some worldviews and presuppositions lead almost inevitably to disastrous consequences, and how other philosophical worldviews might offer an antidote. I discovered Doughnut economics while learning about degrowth economics. Just saw a video of Kate Raworth at the EU conference on post-growth earlier this year, was inspired by her interview with Nate Hagens, and am eager to find out more about the Action Lab. 

Brighton, UK

A Public Sector worker, parent and interested human.  

London

Sandvika, Norway

Back in 2020 i studied Economics as University of Bergen, and discovered the ultimate scam - that growth is the aim for what we are trying to achieve as a species in this world. I questioned it but the professor didn't really have an answer. Nobody did -other than it was up to politicians to decide. After working with growth and tech most of my carreer i now know that what we measure matters. I discovered Doughnut Economics after taking the Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP28 at University at Edinburgh, and I'm now looking for ways to join the movement.  

France

Retired academic : lecturer in marketing at Plymouth University. Having spent a career in marketing and advertising, the last 10 years teaching students to think about marketing and consumerism has led me to question not only the role of marketing which must be much more responsible for the environment and general wellness, but also the paradox between marketing and the consumption of earth resources. I now spend time reading other people's opinions on both these questions.  

i have been working with education for the past 10 year of my life bringing the ideas and products of the school of life to Brasil. we are a global organisation devoted to helping people live more fulfilled lives through developing self-concious and emotional inteligence. Prior to that i worked with  Ashoka  promoting  social entrepreneurship in Brasil, i was part of the team that founded Endeavour.org in Brasil. i executive produced an oscar nominee documentary called wasteland a co production Brasil-UK about art and the new series of Vik Muniz on garbage. 

Luton

Community, social enterprise, regeneration and growth, young people, employability, faith, EDI, sustainability