Meet the DEAL Community

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

I am a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. I make artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life ‘should’ look like. These have included: a performance score for 3-5 year olds to take power over institutional art space; a piece of gig theatre about concrete architecture featuring a drag king punk band; a book of 151 ideas for overthrowing the government; a quilt of data from the 2019 general election; a DIY business selling shares in a communal bicycle; a podcast about private renting. I am currently working on Transactionland, a shop/artwork/community-space for exploring inclusive economies.

Montreal, Québec, Canada

I'm a connector, facilitator, catalyst!  I help my clients make sense of messy complex challenges; to look at alternatives and opportunities for reinvention and innovation. Though I have just begun my exploration of Doughnut Economics, I want to bring this thinking into my practice and finds ways to help my clients turn these ideas into action. I look forward to learning and sharing more with you here! I'm respectfully based on Tiohtià:ke the traditional and unceded homelands of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk). 

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

Dr Michael Chew is a participatory action-researcher, photographer and environmentalist whose work explores creativity in social change. He draws from interdisciplinary perspectives with degrees in Participatory Design, Mathematical Physics, Social Theory, Art Photography and Social Ecology. He co-founded grassroots NGOs Friends of Kolkata, and Friends of Bangladesh to run international volunteer programmes and North-South solidarity work, and has run participatory storytelling projects across Asia. After completing a design-based action-research PhD in 2020 exploring how participatory photography can inspire youth environmental behaviour change across cities in Bangladesh, China and Australia, he is currently undertaking a Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I am a university researcher investigating the employment impacts of climate change and climate action, and how we can use the latter to make work more decent and fair. I have a special interest in the global textile and garment sector.

Ormstown, Québec, Canada

I have been an environmentalist for 30 years now. For many years it always felt like I was fighting against. I am feeling more hopeful than ever because more and more we are working to build new structures and the Doughnut Economics encompasses all the big issues. I am sitting on an environmental committee on my town and am feeling inspired by our new council.

Lochaber, Scotland

Artist, activist, architect

Cricket St Thomas, England, United Kingdom

Sustainability Manager meaning it, working in furniture manufacture but thinking about bigger things.

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

I'm a Caribbean-born, US-living, industrial ecologist by training, business and design professor by profession. I work on systems transformation towards sustainability and equity.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

I live and work in Amsterdam South East in Gaasperdam (35.000 inhabitants) where many people struggle with issues from the inside of the doughnut. In June 2019 I designed the concept and the realisation of Doughnut Deals (DD) as a tool for Multiple Value Creation (DD=combine at least one issue of the outside of the doughnut with at least three issues of the inside of the doughnut and set your goals on it with at least two partners. Since then 8 Doughnut Deals have been developed and described. These Deals are imbedded in and coordinated by Cooperative the Green Hub. Several new Deals came into being during the Doughnut day of the Doughnut Coalition (18-10-2022), even an international Doughnut Deal, together with the Metropole Grenoble. The Doughnut Deal Expertise Centre in Amsterdam, operates as a service for each (organisation) who wants help in creating a new Doughnut Deal;. See https://youtu.be/3F-sxkKcsGc and https://www.cocratos.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/folder-grenoble.pdf

Santiago de Chile, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile

I´m a forest engineer pasionated for sustainable water resources management. As a senior advisor, I work both with public and private actor in order to contribute to sustainable and integrated management of natural resources. Actually I am challenged to lead a serie of strategic basin plans, equals to the 50% of the compsuntion of water in Chile.

Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

Teacher by trade, Educational Consultant and LocalMotion Middlesbrough Core group member. Personal interests: Politics, Social Justice and reform, and Community Wealth Building. Fascinated in Doughnut Economics and how it can be applied across the town and country as a whole!

Wellington, New Zealand

I'm a storyteller, narrative strategist, spoken word artist, systems change advocate, and author of "A Future Untold: The power of story to transform the world and ourselves."

Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

John Atkinson is a community worker who has accumulated 30 years’ experience helping people to get involved, set up new organisations and build networks. John was one of the founders a charity delivering HIV prevention work in Darlington; he went on to work for Newcastle City Council supporting HIV prevention work across the Northeast. In 2003, John started working for Local Development Agencies in County Durham and Teesside, with a 4-year spell setting up telephone befriending services in County Durham, Northumberland, Merseyside and Manchester. John currently works for Middlesbrough Voluntary Development Agency supporting people to make good things happen.

Kildare, Ireland

I am one of the Directors of Mediate Travel-Souffleur Ireland working in the tourism industry. The magnitude of the looming climate catastrophe requires action - if we were to return to selling package holidays, one could compare that to discussing how to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. I am also a CATP (Certified Autism Travel Professional) gathering memories and looking for sensory experiences.

Praha, Česko

Senior Researcher, Vice-dean for Research, Coordinator of applied grant program "Resilient society for the 21st century"

Ámsterdam, Noord-Holland, Países Bajos

Economist with extensive experience in research and projects in the fields of environment, innovation, labour market, macroeconomics, economic growth, sectoral analysis and institutions for development both in United Nations, Government as well as NGO’s and consultancies. Ability to cooperate with a large number of partners and built networks, with a team perspective oriented to results along with excellent communication skills. Strong capability working in departments of studies and/or research centers which possess diverse cultures and analytical perspectives in the execution of projects. High technical degree, integrity, proactivity and flexibility. With publications in the aforementioned topics.

Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

Workshop designer, facilitator, consultant and physicist

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I Bhavini Parikh Founder of Brand Bunko Junko -It is an upcycle fashion Bunko Junko which has a vision of making fashion sustainable. Ours is an eco-friendly initiative that takes all the waste produced by textile and makes beautiful fabrics and garments along with empowering women in fashion.

Recovering/relapsing entrepreneur and author,

Paysandú, Uruguay

I am an agriculture engineer, farmer, entrepreneur and consultant. I am married and father of 1 boy. I like to study and keep myself informed. Currently looking forward to find my place as a sustainable development professional and help the community move towards a sustainable future.

Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Director, Continuing and Distance Education, St. Francis Xavier University

City of London, England, United Kingdom

I am the founder of Rethinking Choices. I worked for three decades at hedge funds and investment institutions in the investment industry before leaving the industry to co-author a book, The Unsustainable Truth. This tells how investments do not solve our problems but add to them. We focus as Rethinking Choices on three areas: transforming the ownership of fossil fuels into stewardship with our Transformational Ownership proposal, Thinking Tools for the Great Warming aimed at helping business executives and communities cope, and The Umbrella for Unscalable Things which is a business platform to reduce hurdles that prevent people from contributing simply as who they are.

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Recently graduated economist with a passion for sustentability, curious to learn more about the Doughnut

Tel Aviv, מחוז תל אביב, Israel

Funding Climate Tech companies at Firstime VC, publishing sustainable ideas (and Doughnut Economics!) at Radical Publishing House, and lecturing on Climate Studies at SCE College.