Meet the DEAL Community

Melbourne

Luke is one of Australia’s leading environmental designers. He has been championing sustainable and regenerative design for over two decades, and has applied his passion and expertise across a wide range of award winning projects.  Nature based systems are Luke’s driving force. He sees everything through a wide ecological lens and believes this is a springboard to poetic design. Since 2008, Luke has been developing/evolving his “Elastic Loop” process driven design, procurement and occupation methodology.  He believes the industry can restructure and recalibrate to meet the wicked problems facing the industry. Luke’s systems thinking lens extends to water and food resilience. In 2005 – 2009 he developed an educational program for industry and councils on the holistic integration of rainwater collection and stormwater abatement. 

UK

Leading on sustainability for the organisation responsible for making the UK's nuclear waste permanently safe, sooner. Our mission to protect people and the environment involves application of the waste hierarchy and circular economy principles as well as major infrastructure development, and our impact will be felt by communities and society for multiple generations.

Dudelange, Luxembourg

I am a retired entrepreneur that uses this time to leave a better world at least through some concrete holistic CAREE projects. (Construction/Architecture/Renewable/Energy/ Environment) My target approach is to join Science (Thermodynamics, 2nd Law about Energy) and the Doughnut Economy in projects destined to transform the LOCAL Ecosystem Environments (Building, Agriculture, Mobility, Water, Infrastructure and Personal) These 2 target objectives are complemented by a proprietary General Purpose Tech AI tool for Ecosystem and Compliance Management.  "AI" for me means "Applied Intelligence" Using the term "artificial" is nonsense and does not fit with the Doughnut either.   You can access a summary presentation via my LinkedIn profile. The detail presentation showing the various projects has not been published yet, except to a few friends. We an discuss that later and see where 

University College London

Hi All, I'm a student and activist at University College London. Running a student society, I seek to create events at UCL that discuss Doughnut Economics, raising the profile and thinking about the political transition required. Personally, I am a big fan of constitutional reform. I have experience working for cooperatives, engaging with New Economics thinking and working in sustainable communications. Feel free to reach-out!

BC, Canada

I'm an ethical marketer and communicator who cares about the 'how' of transitioning to a new economy. I help businesses do marketing in ethical, non-sleazy ways that help them move their businesses beyond growth-based marketing and operations. I recently went back to school after 20+ years and I'm currently completing my thesis on how the language and terminology of 'degrowth' affects the likelihood of transitioning to a new economic and social way of living. Communicating our environmental predicament - both getting better at it, and tackling disinformation - is what keeps me up night. I'm a Scot, currently living a beyond-growth lifestyle in British Columbia, Canada, as part of a community that has all the hallmarks of a post-growth society.     

UK

Cairo, Egypt

I am someone that believes in the power of humanity to change the current paradigm into a new design that better fits our present and future generations.   #universalincome 

Devon, UK

As a one-time principal advisor for all learning in the Royal Navy and the Executive Officer for NATO's Communications and Information Services Agency (NCSA/SHAPE Mons Belgium) I have acquired the highest level Learning/Analysis, learning delivery and strategic planning skills, particularly in the areas of STEM and Sustainability initiatives.  I have now retired from teaching and have decided to start my own business as a contractor to deliver these skills singularly or in combination to any college, university or employer who needs them. I remain a keen volunteer and mentor for Devon's Ukrainian Refugees, Loughborough university's Future Black Talent Programme, as a Co-Opted Governor for the Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust (Primary Schools), an EAUC Sustainability Champion, a Women in STEM Ambassador, and a keen advocate for the development of the Doughnut Economy model overseen by a new type of leadership (Transpersonal Leadership as described by John Knights in his book 'Leading Beyound the Ego' (2018)).

United Kingdom

I’ve spent my life as an IT and Management Consultant and have become increasingly morally conflicted. I haven’t worked out how I can help this vital transformation but I am convinced of its merits. I am perhaps most interested in understanding more about the relationship between the levels of wealth inequality and the negative impacts on the environment and finding ways to inspire business leaders and entrepreneurs to ‘lead better’. The cuckoo of GDP chasing is the same as businesses only chasing profits or at least relegating all other objectives to a subservient motivator. 

Durbuy

Hampshire, UK

Passionate about food system transformation and sustainable diets and nutrition. Having worked for many years in international food marketing, I recently educated and re-trained Sustainability, food system challenges and Circular Economy. I'm interested in helping food businesses re-think their models  to ensure they are helping people and planet to thrive. Member of the future food movement and volunteer at the social entreprise The Pantry Partnership in Salisbury - re-distributing industry fresh produce waste to those most in need in communities.     

Edinburgh, UK

I am a strategy and delivery specialist, keen to mobilise change, improve equity and inclusion, and build more connections in our relationships at work and in the community. My experience includes advising on organisational development initiatives; providing mentoring, coaching, and training to staff and young people; designing and delivering complex health change programmes at a national level in England; and working with qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate impact.  #organisationaldevelopment #equalitydiversityandinclusion #mentor #communitydevelopment #transformation #facilitation #community #co-creation 

Weston-super-mare

Nairobi

Dreaming and visioning of an Alternative Future that cares for people and planet before profit. 

Pardubice region, Czechia

Clinton, Massachusetts, USA

I read EF Shumacher's Small is Beautiful and Danielle Meadows The Limits of Growth in early 70's part of my extra curricular education while pursuing a B.S. degree at the University of Houston.  They were transformative and ever since (I'm 71 in 2023), have striven to live in the confines of the doughnut.  I'm working towards my solar powered small house in Clinton MA, where I hope to die listening to a healthy bird population thriving in a well maintained forest ecosystem.   

Bedford, UK

Canada

excited to help things look a little more doughnut-shaped!

Syros island , Greece

running an off the grid eco hotel, self sufficient in power, fifty percent in water and 25% in food. Interested in #food problems related to  #climate crisis, particularly in storage, new forms of cooking using dried , #cryopacked vegetables. Educated in the UK, lived 20 years in Western Australia and a further 20 in   Also involved in #new political systems that involve community, de-growth and simplification as well as universal incomes

Armenia

# I am an educator and activist creating opportunities for people to collaborate while navigating the chaos of emerging digital technologies.

Chiangmai, Thailand

Madrid, Spain

Grand Forks, British Columbia