Our Story, Our Values, Our Goal

Recommended to listen to this song when reading the story:  Lost Frequencies & Zonderling - Crazy (Official Music Video)

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When does the harshness of the conflicts around the world not feel heavy? What can we do when the complexities and level of the challenges feel like a burden to carry? What has given us hope, energy, and also the capacity to build new possibilities in our places? Well… we have gotten together with other people around the world, and in our places with the same vision for change. Together, we are planting seeds of different futures. That’s what we have been doing, and if you are also interested in finding out how to best contribute to these futures, we would like to invite you to be part of our community. Let’s make the exception the default. Let’s make a good quality of life for people and nature the priority, and not economic growth.

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Glocal Change Collective is a global community of local agents of change with a shared Doughnut Economics vision. It is a place where people around the world have realized that they want to contribute to making the world better through the improvement of social and ecological effects of our economies, and are learning with each other how to do so. It is a community that has learned that complex challenges require collective solutions.

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It is a community that is asking practical questions to reveal clearer paths for solutions. We are testing different ways to make the structural changes that are causing the news we see everyday in practice. We don’t expect to make the changes alone, but as part of a global community with knowledge, experiences and attitudes towards care for others and for our planet. We know we can be stronger in our actions, if we share our resources with others and if we build on the strengths of others as well to create alternative pathways.

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Our story.

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One year ago -wow, time flies!- Several individuals and local leads of the global Doughnut Economics Action Lab grassroots community decided we wanted to support each other for the local transformations we were building in Brazil, Kenya, Finland,  Mexico, the Netherlands, the United States, and Tunisia. We had been working for several years on different projects in our countries to put Doughnut Economics into practice.

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Some of the things we had done in our placesincluded: Coordinating spaces for local agents of change to know each other and collaborate, creating workshops with entrepreneurs to strengthen their socio-ecological impact (Tunisia), Integrating the Doughnut Economic vision as part of a local policy (Netherlands), creating a digital platform for exchange of resources (Brazil), working in the science-policy interface researching on policy opportunities for sustainability change in the water sectors (Mexico), creating national festivals that brought together socio-ecological leaders as part of Global Donut Days, among other activities. However, we all realized that we did not have sufficient resources to scale the impact we are interested in having. Moreover, we needed to intentionally bring to light and activate our interconnectedness as an unique and essential capability to address the challenges we were engaged to tackle in silos. 

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Thus, we started to learn how we could better support each other. We started to acknowledge what we had and what we could do together. On the one hand, we already knew that we shared a vision of changing our local places towards safer and just spaces. Also, we knew that our participatory work in our places was creating reflections for change, and that there were types of activities that we could do in our places that could strengthen this transformation. Finally, we knew we had each other as people that cared for the other to succeed as well. So, we decided to start meeting every month to see in which way we could better globally coordinate to create a greater change in our local spheres.

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From a meeting where we wanted to do a joint project proposal, we became a global community of people designing, implementing, reflecting, and coordinating actions towards a safe and just space on Earth, inspired by the Doughnut vision. We became a community of actors with the intention to learn from our local spaces, to replicate change in other places around the world. We learned that we could do mainly two types of actions: a) coordinated global action and projects that were built from the learnings of our local places, and b) leading local action as part of the global learnings that were relevant for our local needs.

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For these reasons, our community has the current purpose to strengthen agents of change for global and local change. We are then a community interested in supporting all those who want to make a change, and who know that collaborating with others is the best way to do so.

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About our work

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Our vision is a glocal safe and just space.

*By glocal we mean a “global movement of local place-based transformation actions.”

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Our mission is to: Equip global changemakers for an economic transformation in their local places, through the development of knowledge, skills, and mindsets.  

Our values are: Doughnut Economic Principles, and care.

We organize in two main circles:

• Strategic Circle. The participants in the circle are building an infrastructure to be used in the action circle(s), from the needs of the agents of change.

What do we have? A project management infrastructure to coordinate with other members, access to local and global networks and resources, a map of potential global partners that are relevant for socio-ecological action, a funding journey for socio-ecological leaders, and a product development journey for socio-ecological leaders. All based on trust to keep nurturing our own safe and just space so needed to host our dreams, challenges and fears.

• Action Circle. The participants in this circle have spaces to brainstorm ideas and reflections, match with other people who are also interested in implementing these ideas globally, and exchange learnings for their local actions.

How do we do it??

a) We have a monthly meeting learning space for the members to foster global collaboration and coordination for local transformation, where we onboard you to the materials and network in the community.

b) We are currently developing two projects that you can participate in:

Donut Podcast: A podcast showing leaders, and initiatives around the world putting Doughnut Economics into practice. You can join the community by developing one episode of the podcast with us.

Train-to-Trainers: A training for local agents of change interested in socio-ecological place-based transformation. You can join the community by participating in one of the training sessions we are organizing.

Call to Action

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So, as you see, we are interested in scaling the enabling conditions for agents of change with a Doughnut Economic vision to act.

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Thus, if you are an organization interested in scaling Doughnut Economics initiatives, or if you are interested in being a Doughnut Economics practitioner, please contact us at glocal.economies.link@gmail.com.