Meet the DEAL Community

Louisville, Colorado, United States of America

I am an emerging idea creator and systemic change-maker, and I am enthusiastically curious to meet mentors and collaborators.  I believe that by changing the properties of the currencies we use, we can make it most profitable for individuals and communities to cultivate the common good.  I fight for all people to have universal basic access to well-being without cost; for the planet's wild places and natural systems to thrive in perpetuity; and for the new systems we create to be safe, equitable, and liberating for all people.  You can learn more about my work to revolutionize the currencies we use at https://www.make-money-better.com/

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

I am the founder and CEO of THIRST - The International Roundtable for Sustainable Tea. I set it up after witnessing at first hand an uprising of women tea workers in my birthplace, Munnar. I am greatly inspired by Doughnut Economics and hope to persuade the tea industry to apply it in order to understand how to balance its many social and environmental challenges.

Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Sacramento, California, United States of America

I'm a regenerative urban agroforester working on stewardship of urban food system repair, cultural evolution and climate adaptation / resilience at the neighborhood scale

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America

My name is Ronan Taylor. I have a background in paleoecology and herpetology. I have worked for organizations such as the Smithsonian and National Geographic and have conducted research on four different continents. I am currently trying to develop optimized modular systems of environmental restoration that utilize new technologies. I strongly believe that combating climate change is the challenge of our time and environmental restoration is a key component of this fight.

New York, United States of America

I am engineer based in New York, and I am pivoting my career toward the field of sustainability and environmental science.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

I have been a supporter of environmental organisations for years, but have recently got more personally involved in the movement to reduce waste. I'm a director of SHARE Oxford which aims to reduce consumption and promote a circular economy. It runs a Library of Things and Repair Cafés. I am working with a group to bring about an Oxfordshire Doughnut Collective

Bonn, Germany

Our present moneysystem is a contageous dangerous sick nervous system of cities and our post urban society. It is the money system that prevents us to remain within the tolerancies of our ecosystems. The current monetary system has two characteristics that are not normally seen. Firstly, it is a mathematical echo chamber that is completely disconnected from the real world, and secondly, the use of money is a systemic shifting of responsibility. Today's monetary system is therefore a major cause of the destruction of the Earth's habitability by us as a human race. Measures to protect this habitability currently have to be financed from taxes that come from an economy based on this monetary system. This is absurd. The financial sector has the opportunity to do something about it. However, it takes little or no notice of this responsibility. Of course, the habitability of the earth is to be given a higher ethical value than gold and money. But then it is also a moral duty to curb their destructive role. A new monetary order based on real values is possible. How, is described in my book "Nature as the Standard of Value. Three measures for creating a monetary system that protects our livelihoods" (Published Dec. 2024 in German, I am still looking for an English publisher.) https://value-for-money.org/en/ As a sinologist, I started my career in the financial world and later became a financial correspondent for the Dutch press in Bonn. After eleven years in the financial world, I joined a large German DAX-listed company to help it go public internationally. There I rose to the management level with responsibility for quality management. Since 2006, I have been researching how cities can achieve sustainability in real-world laboratories from Beijing to Hamburg. In 2014, oekom Verlag published the book "Wurzeln für die lebende Stadt" ('Roots for the Living City’). This book is available as an open science document. From 2014 onwards I have setup, directed and/or supervised four living labs in and between urban quarters. One in Berlin and three in the city of Hamburg. The results where published in 2023 in the German scientific reader „(Re-) Konstruktion von lokaler Urbanität“ (W.-D. Bukow et al. (Hrsg.)) in the article with the translated title ‘Small towns and quarters as the smallest units of an urban society, their fundamental role in ensuring sustainability and resilience with personal responsibility and self-efficacy’ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-39635-0 One of the results of this research is the observation, that our money system is a dangerous sick nervous system of cities. For a bit more information please look at: https://value-for-money.org/en/ For more information about me, see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harristiddens.

Dubai, دبي‎, United Arab Emirates

Resident, visitor and worker

Santiago de Chile, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile

Soy docente de la Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile en la asignatura Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en la Facultad de Ciencias y de la Escuela de Cine. También hago de Liderazgo e Innovación en la Escuela de Ingeniería Ambiental.

Milano, Lombardia, Italia

I am a consultant in the field of purpose-driven strategy and marketing. I am also the manager of a Technopole belonging to a regional innovation ecosystem in Bologna (Italy), focused on life sciences.

Woodside Park, London Borough of Barnet, England, United Kingdom

All-round IT guy - for certain values of 'all-round' - for a living; writer, musician and cartoonist the rest of the time. Grumpy a lot. Immensely grateful for rare things that provide grounds for optimism, such as this place. Everything is connected.

Highbury, England, United Kingdom

Hi, I've photographed in many of the world's most fragile environments. This has included the arctic and for The BBC across Africa.. I've provided aid and development in the most unstable states. This has included Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen. I've also led many digital change programmes for banks, governments and media organisations. I'm a writer and consultant using the power of stories and digital technology to drive ESG change.

Singapore, Singapore

I currently serve as Director of Social and Community Services for The Salvation Army and also double up as a social justice coordinator for part of the Southeast Asian region. I studied economics back in my undergraduate days with the aspiration that I might be able to help end poverty. That hope remains work-in-progress. What matters is that doughnuts go well with coffee.

City of London, England, United Kingdom

An economics graduate pre Doughnut theory, former property professional now a Programme Manager with Challenge Works (a nesta enterprise) looking to stimulate innovation to make cities more sustainable. I also own a craft beer brand and venue in London.

Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Writer and designer excited to contribute to building a better world

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

PhD in Sustainable and Social Entrepreneurship, MSc and BSc in Geography. Have been teaching and researching about how to foster bottom-up/grassroots development in mining territories beyond the neoclassical paradigm.

Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

I am a high school economics and social studies teacher, constantly seeking out ways to support my students as they become more globally and socially responsible.

Lohja, Etelä-Suomi, Finland

I am a very passionate social and environmental activist who is motivated by securing planetary well-being for my children, and their children's children. I am currently doing a Phd degree at the university of Jyvaskyla in Finland, and I am currently exploring how socio-ecological transitions can be activated.

Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary

For 12 years, I worked for CEEweb for Biological Diversity, first as a project coordinator and then as Secretary General. I lobbied for sustainable and fair resource use within EU and UN policy processes. I am also one of the initiators of the European Resource Cap Coalition that advocates for the limitation of absolute resource use while considering social justice. I obtained a biologist and an economist diploma, as well as a PhD focusing on sustainable and sufficient household energy consumption. In the EcosystemEvaluation expert team, I have been providing expertise in sustainable and just energy consumption perspectives and contributing to the work of Habitat for Humanity International on mitigating energy poverty. Furthermore, I developed an interactive scientific game promoting sustainability (Decarbonise!).

Lihue, Hawaii, United States of America

Monica Belz, CEO of Kauai's first CDFI Credit Union; KAUAI CREDIT UNION. Established in 1947 and formerly known as Kauai Government Employees FCU, Kauai Credit Union works closely with community stakeholders across Kauai in economic transformation. We believe Kauai can create and flourish in a regenerative economy.

Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Hello, I am Luciano, from Argentina. I have a degree in industrial engineering and then I made a Master and a PhD in Environmental Sciences. My fields of interest are environmental history, the studies of sciences and technologies, the circular economy, sustainability transitions, etc., etc.!

Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Life-centered designer for organizations who wants to do better for planet and people.

City of London, England, United Kingdom

I'm a climate entrepreneur dedicated to finding innovative solutions to the climate crisis that support a just transition to a green economy and reconnect people with planet.