Meet the DEAL Community

Somerset, UK

I'm an architect/urban designer interested in neighbourhood scale doughnut thinking.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lígia Fernandes is a Portuguese visual artist and curator based in Portugal, focused on the intersection between visual arts, socially engaged art and community economies. In her work she uses drawing and painting as tools to explore cultural universes, ethnographies and identities, and organizing as a means to create space for sharing, collaboration and creation. Her practice is often the result of site-specific research and aims to address the connection with its collective identity. There is, in all her work, a permanent awareness of a Portuguese point of view. Currently she is interested in the role of love in relational art and community economies. She holds and MA in Painting and BA in Drawing from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and also a BS and MS in Economics from UCP-FCEE. She has been dedicated to drawing and painting since 2014, having participated in several exhibitions, residencies and exchange programs in Portugal, Hungary, Montenegro, Latvia and Estonia. Since 2020 she also co-created several ongoing art and community projects such as Panorama, Lisbon Drawing Club, Artists Anonymous, Art&Craft Refúgio and Mais Uno +1. Currently, she is enrolled in the master’s “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art” at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design at University of Gothenburg.     

Philippines

An environmental planner and development worker 

San José, Costa Rica

I am an independent consultant in peace and sustainability education based in San José, Costa Rica. During the 1990s I directed two programs in all Central America in cultures of peace, affiliated with the United Nations University for Peace. I was a member of the drafting commission of the Earth Charter and carry-out my educational work within its framework. I am particularly interested in community and social network approaches.  

Cumbria UK

We are a small manufacturer and supply business (team of 7)  est 2006, disillusioned by capitalist consumerist route to nowhere... looking for a more sustainable community led model. Obsessed by waste and trying passionately to close the loop and meet like minds 😊  

Urbana, Illinois, USA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vernitapearlfort/

Enfield, north London, UK

I read Doughnut Economics and was blown away. Now I'm looking to play my part in developing routes through our global crisis. Have been a campaigner, journalist, specialist fitness trainer, and currently a piano tuner. Long-term self-employed, winding own but desperate to pick up this urgent challenge and do whatever I can, however menial

Berlin

Climate & Post-Growth activist, Project Lead @LocalZero - Network for Local Climate Neutrality in Germany. 92+ Municipalities. 1000+ volunteers.  "Making Germany climate-neutral: bottom-up" ---  Academic background:  Macroeconomics, French literature in Bonn (B.A., 2009-14), Classical Philology and History of Science (M.A.) in Bonn, Münster and Paris (2014-17), Online-M.A. in Post-Growth Economics & Political Ecology in Barcelona (2023-) Professional background:  Head of Research & Communications (RPC Consulting, Mexico City, 2017-18), Sr. Business Development Manager (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Querétaro, 2018), Project Manager & Event Director (Deutsche Messe, Mexico City, 2018-2020), Sr. Program Manager & Sr. Manager (enpact, Berlin, 2020-22), Operations Lead & Product Manager at PUNK by WBS Training AG (2022-23) Entrepreneurial Background: Co-Founder of an EdTech (WikiStage, France, 2014-15) and an award-winning TechFugee social startup (Helpu, Germany, 2015-17), a global impact-driven maker movement (Makers For Good, Mexico, 2018-20), and a sociocratic changemaker network for social entrepreneurs (Impact Circles, Germany, 2019-23).  Memberships:  Beyond Growth Germany (BGG)  International Degrowth Network (IDN) Independent member SEND (Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany) Interested in Post-Growth Economics & Social/Impact Entrepreneurship, Circularity, Social Innovation, Narrative Change, Behavioral & Learning Science, Philosophy & History of Ideas, Education, E-Learning, Game-Based Design  

Sunway University, Subang Jaya

Programme Officer at the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health. I am the focal point for the Planetary Health Alliance in South and Southeast Asia, and also part of the Ipoh Doughnut City team, working to transform Ipoh, a city in Malaysia, into the first Doughnut City in Asia.

Antwerp (Belgium)

I am a general economics teacher in a secondary school near the town of Antwerp (Belgium)

UK

I am a Professional Dialogue practitioner. My work addresses the counterproductive or destructive behaviour that results from people thinking about themselves as separate from others around them, replacing this with decision-making that takes others into account.  For more than 20 years I've run a small consultancy working with organisations to enable them to become effective, healthy, and generative places to work. This looks like, for example, sustainable change to culture, addressing systemic bullying, union-management conflict, raising the voice of ethics professionals in a business, improving the way organisations work together for mutual benefit along a value chain or for the benefit of their shared clients in a social system, breaking down departmental silos, coaching people to be better leaders, etc, etc. I help structures to work as living systems.  My work sustains change because it changes the way people think and creates a common understanding that enables decisions to be made for the benefit of everyone. Without changing the way people think solutions are temporary fixes only to be monitored and enforced.   I am a founder and Director of Dialogue Associates dialogue-associates.com established in 2003 and founder and trustee of the Academy of Professional Dialogue aofpd.org.  I am also chair of the governing board of a large secondary school.  My clients have included commercial, public sector, and non-governmental organisations across a range of sectors, from energy and finance to public audit and prisons, and multi-stakeholder systems in, for example, criminal justice and migration and development. I have created a practice model and a curriculum for Professional Dialogue practitioners that helps to sustain Dialogue in a system and run educational programmes.      I am looking for opportunities to bring this radical approach to help communities to thrive.  

Gloucestershire, UK

I'm a 50-something doughtnut (economics) lover with a passion for our planet and deep-seated exasperation with the slow speed of change in my country and globally.  It's blindingly obvious to me that in everything we do, we have to start with the earth first.  I'm reading Kate's book right now, and wondering what I can do to move these ideas forward. My MP appears to be about as useful as a chocolate teapot. I'm interested in perhaps trying to apply doughnut economics in a local way to start with.  

Washington, DC Metro Area

 As an urban planner and climate resilience specialist, I draw on more than 15 years of experience working with private sector, government, philanthropic and civil society clients to design and manage environmental, social impact, and community-based livelihood programs worldwide.   Currently, I lead Anthesis Group’s Social Impact team. As a proud B Corp, Anthesis exists to shape a more productive and resilient world by helping organizations transition to new models of sustainable performance that can meet the needs of all people within the means of a living planet, building an equitable, inclusive, and resilient future. #justtransition 

Glasgow

Based in Glasgow, I'm a collaborative designer focused on creating sustainable futures through shifting perspectives with tangible experiences, co-creating products and services and building new impact ventures today for a better tomorrow.

Kilkenny

Background in art libraries in university education. Visual Artist and musician. Intending to study horticulture.

Colombia

Strategic and Service Designer with expertise in design for sustainability, design for social innovation and transitions, systemic thinking, and complexity science.

Paris, France & Washington DC

Economics PhD student, interested in climate econometrics and post-growth macro-economics.

San Luis Valley, Colorado, USA

I own a small real estate brokerage in a poor, rural area in Colorado. We are car-dependent, and dependent on money from people who move here from rural areas. Ours is a construction economy, with some limited tourism, and agriculture (mostly corporate) supports the wider region. I am interested in understanding DE as it applies to change in small geographically disparate rural areas. I am also interested in creating a new DE ethos that rethinks the future of home construction, home ownership and the sales/service profession of real estate. #housing #realestate   

Birmingham

Founder of Your Place Your Space engaging and empowering communities through digital. Community Passport 1.0. going live for Pride of Place engagement and promotion of Shared Values.   

Guernsey

I have a circular economy background and now help purpose-led founders bring there regenerative and impactful ideas to life. 

Taipei, Taiwan

As an entrepreneur, future thinker, mother, and nature lover, I shares my passion and life principles: justice, respect, integrity, equality, and love with my peers, and brings those qualities of being into my work, where it is exemplified through my design process and facilitation expertise.

Canterbury UK

I am an educator with a special interest in education for sustainability in early childhood and the primary phase of schooling.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Hello I'm Rob and I've worked in the world of social business and social innovation for most of my working life - getting on for 25 years now. I started out working for a fairtrade cooperative in Leeds and then I worked for a few different organisations, supporting people to set up and run social enterprises. In 2010 I co-founded a social enterprise which aims to develop creative, collaborative solutions to complex problems.  We set up various projects including Empty Homes Doctor and Zero Waste Leeds.  I left SBB in May 2023 and I am currently exploring what to focus on next.  I'm a big fan of Doughnut Economics - I loved the book and I really like the focus on both the social and the environmental - you can't focus on one without thinking about the other.  I'm interested too in the circular economy - and more than anything I want to continue to explore ways we can respond to the #climateemergency. I write here on Substack and have written here about Doughnut Economics. 

Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

Part of Community Hub Suffolk (CHIp) a cic set up to occupy empty spaces in Ipswich and makes them available to the community in various different ways.  As places for creatives to make, display and sell what they create, places for people to meet up and run FREE meetups; such as film club, drumming circle, mending circle, artist morning, musicians meet up, writers group, games sessions, knowledge exchange; a space to run early evening music and spoken word events, and private hires and much more.  As part of the advisory group for CHIp I have taken on the role of expanding to include a tool library and am looking for advice from groups that have already got one up and running.