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Exploring the Edges of the Doughnut
A story of how a diverse group tapped into the edges of the Doughnut ideas of finding abundance at the intersections
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Tempo Arts Centre: Flourishing Within the Doughnut
The soil beneath our feet, the water that nourishes our crops, and the air that inspires our performers...
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Toronto Community Portrait of Place Workshop
Place-Based Doughnut Design for Housing: A Community Workshop in Downtown Toronto
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Community indicators of living well
Some insights, questions and resources arising from a peer-to-peer exploration into community indicators of living well
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Mexico City's Global Donut Days 2024
Mexico City pulses with sustainability, art, and systemic transformation.
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Featured in PBS show: Climate California
Watch San Jose Doughnut Economics in action with a gamified ecofestival
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Fashion Fights Waste
The "No Label" is a continuation of previous projets that introduced young to Doughnut Econoimics and artivism.
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Beyond a Stage
Beneath dust, a rhythm builds worlds from what was lost
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International Classrooms from IDEEC project.
Mixed online and outline sessions, where classrooms from Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Scotland and UK work on impact ideas
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Reflections on the GDD 2024 Workshop in Seoul
Event brief of DonutZip's workshop for the GDD 2024
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Shaping Fairer Futures Together in Scotland
A Global Donut Day 2024 local event by Doughnut Economics Scotland Network and the Universal Recognition Movement
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Redesigning Creative Businesses in Europe
Learnings from conducting the Taster version at the annual conference of the European Creative Hubs Network
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DEAL: The first five years
A brief recap of DEAL's journey so far, including three annual reports since we launched in 2019
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Doughnut Economics Toronto Collective Launch Event
This November, Doughnut Economics Collective Toronto (DECTO) hosted its launch event during #GlobalDoughnutDays.
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Analysis of the Northern District of Lviv, Ukraine
Comprehensive analysis, which aimed to provide understanding of the current and potential state of the city district
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Neutinamu Makers’ Local Global Doughnut Day Event
Welcoming Global Doughnut Day with a “Zero-Energy Mujun-gi” Event
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GDD 2023 Accessibility Story
Sharing the deeply insightful project we undertook in 2023 to help make Global Donut Day more accessible
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We Are Neutinamu Makers!
A Network of Makers for a Regenerative and Redistributive Future
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Learn to influence policy with the DEAL community
Insights and resources from those who participated in Policy Influence Gatherings in September 2024
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Doughnut Board Game Maker Group Kicks Off!
Y-Donut starts developing a Doughnut Economics board game, aiming for SPIEL-ESSEN. Join us online or offline!
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ACT as a DOUGHNUT
ACT as a Doughnut is our quest to find a innovative answer to youngsters’ lack of engagement in taking action
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ACT! as a Doughnut Project in Frankfurt
An innovate, non-formal education programme with Doughnut economics at the heart. These are it's outcomes in Germany!
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Local group exploring Doughnut Economics
For World Donut Day 2023, we asked how we might apply it to ourselves and our local region.
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Good News Stories of Milton Keynes Spring 2024
Good News of Milton Keynes was so well received, that we have gathered a more stories.
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Evento de bienvenida a la Alianza Donut España ADE
Grabación evento bienvenida a Alianza Donut España ADE. 14 de Febrero de 2024
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Mexico City's Global Donut Day 2023
About the First Global Donut Day in Mexico City, going where the (sustainability) energy is.
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The Current Economy: What's Your Experience?
In preparation for picturing what's possible, we explored our baseline experiences of the economy to date.
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Amsterdam Donut Day 2023
On November 13th Amsterdam celebrated her third Donut Festival. This year we were joined by the worldwide community!
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Bielsko-Biała power of local activism
Community portrait of ambitious city in Poland getting familiar with doughnut.
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The Leeds Global Donut Festival
Bringing the ‘Global Social Lens’ of the Leeds Doughnut data portrait to life through a week of community events
Communities & Art
Cultivating grassroots agency and power with creative and accessible methods, peer-learning and global solidarity
Welcome to DEAL’s communities page
Here you’ll find tools, stories and events of people...
👉 applying the ideas of Doughnut Economics in their lives and in their neighbourhoods
👉 connecting at the city and regional scale to form groups and networks for systemic change
👉 connecting as a global grassroots community of mutual support and solidarity
Whether you've been using the ideas of Doughnut Economics in your work for years or you're completely new to the ideas, you're equally welcome! So take a look around, read some stories, browse some tools, and why not join an upcoming event to connect with others and learn ways you can take action.
The latest community stories
Topics of interest
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# grassroots-global-connections
Connecting as a global community of grassroots DE practitioners to nurture our individual and collective practice
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# interactive-workshops
Sharing activities and workshops that introduce the ideas of Doughnut Economics in interactive and experiential ways
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# neighbourhood
Tools, stories and possibilities for using Doughnut Economics in your neighbourhood
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# doughnut-portrait
Tools and stories to help and inspire you to create a Doughnut Portrait of your place
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# global-donut-days
Learn about, contribute to or participate in Global Donut Days 2024
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# games
Creating games to explore the ideas and possibilities of Doughnut Economics in action
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# the-commons
Exploring the role and potential of the commons through a Doughnut Economics lens
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# influencing-policy
Exploring how to engage and influence policies and governments with Doughnut Economics
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# research-for-action
Connecting scholar-activists to amplify Doughnut Economics research and to mobilise evidence for transformative action
Community events
Events that you can join to meet others and hear stories of community action around the world.
You can also create and publish your own community events to connect with others.
Groups and networks map
Top tools
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Quick Participatory Doughnut Mapping
Mapping perceptions and experiences to make a quick Doughnut Portrait for your place
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Personal Doughnut Template
A template to develop a personal doughnut
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Step Into The Doughnut v2.0 (now in 30 languages)
An accessible and engaging way to introduce the Doughnut to any group
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Step into the Donut - Online Workshop
An online workshop to introduce the Doughnut to any group
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Sparking Connections
A set of 37 cards to explore the connections between the dimensions of the Doughnut and the Four Lenses
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Edges of the Doughnut
Nature's Blueprint to Business Transformation. Just as wetlands create the richest ecosystems where water meets land
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People, People, Planet!
An activity to introduce the Doughnut in a playful way with no props, just people
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Four Lenses Walkshop Canvas
Go on a journey through your neighbourhood, bringing your curiosities and using the Four Lenses framework to guide you
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Introducing Regenerative and Distributive Design
Three short videos introducing the design dynamics at the heart of Doughnut Economics
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Seven Ways One Pagers
Each of the Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist summarised onto one page with some questions to reflect on
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Beyond the bookclub: DIY peer-to-peer learning
A DIY guide to help you design peer-to-peer learning journeys within your neighbourhood.
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Ring Rescue
A fast and fun Doughnut-shaped game that explores systems and collaboration
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Doughnut Economics Book Club Guide
A co-created guide to help you design and host your own book club or study group around Doughnut Economics
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Set the Stage
Act out the key roles of the economy, explore their relationships and play with the script in this interactive activity
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Dimensions of the Doughnut
An introduction to each of the 21 social and ecological dimensions of the Doughnut
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Communities: Let's Get Started!
A collection of tools & stories to apply the ideas of Doughnut Economics to your community
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Get Animated! Introducing the Seven Ways
Seven short animations to introduce the Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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Doughnut Dreams and the Dream Spiral
An activity to imagine your vision of a future when we are all living in the Doughnut
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Appreciative Inquiry
AI is a strength-based approach that allows to create change by looking on what is good & what dreams pull us forward
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Take a Stand
An activity to explore the diversity of views about whether humanity can get into the Doughnut by 2050
