Meet the DEAL Community

Cardiff

I'm a designer, engineer and innovation lead with over 25 years industry experience, a passion for sustainable business and a specialism for circular economy transition strategy & development.   

Upper Manhattan, NY, USA

Aging, pensive schlub; dyspeptic alter kacker (Yiddish; do a search); crackpot Upper Manhattanite. My Mastodon timeline is, currently, largely a reflection of my self-hosted Friendica timeline which, in turn, is part of a larger project to combine self-hosted open source online facilities into a community-building and -maintaining suite.  I have a hashtag that I use a lot (alone, as far as I can tell):  This is meant to index scattered reflections on the history of human community as a uniquely adaptive invention, its impoverishment over the last few centuries by various hegemonic forces (chiefly economic), and the appropriation (and sometimes enclosure) of many of the most useful and adaptive aspects of human community by institutions and organizations.

Berlin

How can we can create regenerative business models that help build an economy that values planet and people over profit?

Valdoviño, A Coruña, Spain

I'm an SEO consultant from the UK living in Spain. I'm interested in helping regenerative businesses and using my skills to help ensure they can be found online. I'd love to continue to learn more about Doughnut Economics and to help spread the word. Feel free to reach out to me through my website https://matttutt.me or send a connection request via LinkedIn.

Nice, France

I spent 15 years in fostering local #economic development and designing major public infrastructure. I worked as Deputy Managing Director for Economy, Innovation, Employment and Int'l at Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis and used to run Sophia Antipolis Technopolis. I also gained international experience as project director in one of the major French concession and construction company. After realising economic development is a complex issue, in which we need to reconcile economic growth, planetary boundaries and social thresholds, I decided to focus on raising collective awareness about this issue, using the Donut Economic Model, which I find particularly clear and enlightning. I also decided to make a radical turn in my carreer and undertook the transformation of the family farm into an organic farm. I currently pursue my efforts to developping biodiversity within the family farm and help organisations shift their focus from economic development to Donut Economics! Let's shape a fairer and livelier future together!

Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.

Heidelberg, Germany

I am working on my Bachelor Thesis about Doughnut Economics and the City Portrait Methodology. My goal is to work on a transfer of the City Portrait for the German city of Heidelberg, located in the state of Baden-Württemberg.  I am open to networking and exchanging information and experiences with any other people interested in applying the City Portrait to other cities.

Galway

Hello there, very interested in #ClimateJustice and #ClimateAction that is informed by #feminist #equality and #socialjustice values

Bordeaux

Actuellement en 1ère année de doctorat au laboratoire BSE rattaché à l'Université de Bordeaux, je m'intéresse aux questions des frontières planétaires et aux seuils sociaux sur le territoire de La Réunion. 

Sweden

Haves: A traditional 1970th approach to life that is about to change. Wants: I want to explore more of the gratitude of giving and sharing.  Reads Raworth, Eisenstein, Ha-Joon Chang, Rockström and others but want more. 

Jakarta

My eyes lit up whenever I talk about learning and development. I like to call myself a bridge at the intersection of , , and . Currently, I'm leading a department in that focuses on creating curriculum for adult learners in public sector to build a , , and  future. I have met a lot of professionals and leaders from various backgrounds and industries who are humble enough to keep learning and finding new ways to improve policy making. In , we believe that development should be done without sacrificing our mother earth. That's what brings me to DEAL community. I believe that this is the right community to learn about what constitute "growth". Can we grow without sacrificing the resources we take from the environment? Can we empower others to grow along the way? Those are questions I'm longing to answer.

Glasgow

Community organiser, avid lover of humanity and ready for change. Interested in intersections between degrowth, human rights equitable design and the evolution of philosophy and our values are steering the way. 

Bogotá

I am Daniel Gutiérrez, a guy who is completely convinced about the need to shift paradigms to a social order based on cooperation and love. My life journey has convinced me that true happiness is made possible when hierarchical structures of society are disentangled and that is why I want to devote my life to that. I am the Co-Founder of an NGO called Saving the Amazon which works with indigenous communities in conservation and the founder of a company called Shambala, which attempts to build up environmental communities and educate people in environmental related topics.

Valla

G'day, I live on Gumbaynggirr Country, working remotely as the Environmental & Social Impact Advisor for a B Corp certified brewing company. 

Prague, Czechia

I'm interested in systems theory and how it can help with understanding and explaining social life as a seamless experience.

Pacific Northwest

 I am continuously curious about life's deep patterns, resourcing regenerative design lenses and cultivating an integrative living personal and professional practice.  A few of the areas of study I am currently passionate about are ancestral healing, resonance tuning, coherence building, biofield science, overcoming legacy burdens, deep biomimicry and permaculture, traditional medicine, paradigm research.  I am interested in this community as a practice of reverently weaving individual and collective interior and exterior expression.  In infinite gratitude,  Jas 

Copenhagen

I’m looking for ways to accelerate systemic change for a more equitable society based on rigenerative and sustainability principles. 

Milton Keynes

Working within and supporting the local VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) sector in Milton Keynes.

Marseille, France

Houten

My name is Mark Frederiks. Founder of amped.nl specialist in transition of food systems using data and IT, founder of short food chain enterprise local2local.nl  active in Amsterdam, partner of Climate KIC, H2020 Smartchain and recently granted EU4advice consortium building a learning ecosystem of experts and policymakers in short food chains. With metioned acivities we are working on a “just transition of a robust, regional, regenratice food system in the metropole region of Amsterdam. Inspiration videos of our GAIN transition model and our latest presentation of our ambitions building an eco system of regional food networks.  Contact info https://www.linkedin.com/in/markfrederiks/ 0031611375921 mark@amped.nl

Roskilde, Denmark

Heard Rob Shorter following af course at https://www.okonomiskolen.dk/. Very inspiring, and in times where action is needed, organizing is essential...DEAL simply sounds interesting. I currently work as an Emergency Physician, but part time involved in establishing some way to grow own food, and finding ways to run a 7ha. piece of land, in a regenerative way. This is currently work-in-progress.

Edinburgh

I've learnt about Responsible Business in 2023 and  started my personal journey to sustainability then. I would like to become more involved in bringing knowledge about this to others, while also learning more about it myself.

Cologne & Region, Germany

I am studying economics, sustainability and social design as part of my master's degree. As part of my master's thesis, I am applying the Donught Economy to the planning of a city district. To ensure the attunement of the citizens  I also use elements of Future Literacy. In my spare time, I advocate for Degrowth by spreading permaculture micro-gardening in urban spaces for more food sovereignty. In addition, I have been campaigning for a job guarantee in the social-ecological sector at European level for  the last 3 years. In this context, I have published a study in cooperation with several NGOs across Europe. 

New York, USA

Nour is a designer, educator, and entrepreneur who's passionate about design and technology solutions to climate and social justice issues. She co-founded Scopio, a photography platform and marketplace with the goal of centering images and stories told by people from underrepresented communities and regions. She has led the design and content teams, and worked with the engineering team to build products based on ethical AI and machine learning practices to solve racial biases in the image industry. She was a professor at the Parsons School of Design, teaching Responsible Innovation and how to design solutions for environmental and social issues. She co-authored and curated “The Year Time Stopped: The Global Pandemic in Photos”, a photobook about the year 2020 narrated in photos and stories from around the world. She has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in recognition for her work. She sits on the board and advises nonprofits that advocate for social justice through digital campaigning, data, and design.