Cities & Regions: Let's Get Started [4 languages]

🍩 We're delighted to share the final report from a recent Oxfordshire Doughnut Economics project !

We've used the doughnut model as the basis of a visual Vision for the Shropshire Hills National Landscape

My Local Spotlight video for Global Donut Day November 2024

Jornada de experimentação da ferramenta das 4 lentes para pensar cidades prosperas e resilientes.

About the First Global Donut Day in Mexico City, going where the (sustainability) energy is.

A community of scholars and practitioners gathered around DEAL Cities & Regions, NELA, Yuge Lei and Ben Schmid

Climate Hope Lincoln and Lincoln Climate Commission joined the Global Donut Day 2023.

An story of how a tiny village can explore ways to evolve their initiatives

Zürich, Switzerland

Hello, I'm Myriam Best, welcome to my profile ! As a core team member of the Swiss Donut Economics Network, I am committed to making the doughnut a reality in Switzerland. My contribution focuses on advocacy, communication and consulting for public and private actors. A few words about my journey thus far ... The unfolding social, environmental and climate crises have led me to rethink my personal and professional aspirations. A slow and complex process, accelerated by motherhood in times of the gloomy outlook synthesised by the IPCC reports. 2022 was a pivotal year that took me back to university, 15 years after my first Master's degree! Guided by a burning need to dedicate my skills, time and energy to making the world a better, fairer and more livable place for all, I joined the Masters in Degrowth: Ecology, Economy and Politics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In doing so, I equipped myself with the best available knowledge on the causes of the social, environmental and climate crises, and delved into the discovery of post-growth economics and politics as a plausible way out of the polycrisis. More importantly, I joined an international network of committed change-makers! I am also a professional with 15 years of international corporate and client consulting experience in strategy, human resources, change management, digitalisation and organisational design. I have successfully led complex transformation programmes in international corporations and SMEs across a range of sectors. Former colleagues and clients praise my ability to make the complex accessible, to engage people of all backgrounds and to remain cool under pressure while keeping spirits high.  Happy to be in touch! Areas of interest: 

Buchlyvie, Scotland

#degrowth #art #workshops #community

Rio de Janeiro

Peter Kruse on Ulrike Reinhard "There are some people whose lives followed the logic of dynamic networks long before the internet appeared on the scene. In my time I’ve met a handful of individuals who were digital natives in a much more radical sense than their date of birth might lead you to suppose. Ulrike Reinhard is one of them. She has the genius to be able to think and act in terms of interaction. In conversation with her, it’s easy to be carried away by her enthusiasm for open processes. Ulrike Reinhard is a catalyst for collective intelligence and network nodes, an enabler who forges direct links that bring people together. She’s a virtuoso across the whole repertoire of modern technologies, but she would still be adding more reality to the We in this world if she had to use smoke signals and pigeon post to do so. Ulrike Reinhard is an impassioned explorer of frontiers with an astonishing faith in her ability to find her way even in new and uncharted territory.  She seldom follows a steady straight line but always shows an unflappable sense of direction. Like the path she’s carved through life, Ulrike Reinhard is never boring and always good for a few surprises! "     

Basel

I am Sustainability Business Developer working with SMEs, startups and people who want a more just and regenerative future. Working for Impact Hub Basel, I develop new formats and programs to achieve just that. 

Miami, FL (USA)

I am always seeking to contribute to more regenerative/sustainable, ethical, and eco-socially just world. Doughnut Economics excites and inspires me for its potential to transform cities!  My career journey has taken me into multiple sectors (technology, tourism, urban planning, academia, community non-profit, arts), but in all this work I have never strayed from my focus on socio-ecological justice. I am a hybrid cultural anthropologist / geographer who is building awareness of inclusive and regenerative tourism and placemaking in cities, with strategies focused on benefitting (versus exploiting) local communities (and the environment). I have a particular interest in addressing the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism.  As an aside, I've also conducted in-depth research on  Miami, Florida's Little Havana neighborhood, where I still offer (private) walking tours with a critical lens ...   

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France

I'm working towards a world in which business leaves more value than it takes, and puts positive impact before profit, in service of a just and liveable future for all. I work as an independent marketing consultant, organisation designer and change facilitator for leaders of social value, sustainable and impact-led organisations. I bring 25 years of real-world business experience, coupled with a profound understanding and authentic commitment to addressing the change that’s needed to secure a thriving future for life on Earth. I'm exploring the potential of marketing to play a key role in the transition to a regenerative future. What if collectively, as marketers, we could transform our industry into a fairer, kinder, more ethical and responsible place, which encourages sustainable behaviour change and nurtures well-being?