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Communities: Let's Get Started!
A collection of tools & stories to apply the ideas of Doughnut Economics to your community
Version 1.0 (May 2023)
Summary image picture credit: CIVIC SQUARE
Overview
Communities: Let's Get Started is a collection of tools & stories to apply the ideas of Doughnut Economics to your community, whether at the household, street or neighbourhood scale or connecting as networks for systemic change at the city, region or national scale.
The tool contains over 25 tools and 20 stories - with contributions from people, groups, networks and organisations from around the world - to help you get started with your community in your own unique context.
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Why use it?
Doughnut Economics covers so much that it can feel overwhelming! Use this tool to find ways to get started in putting the ideas into practice with your community.
Use it as a signpost to see things you would like to…
- do straight away
- do in future
- share with others
Who is it for?
We believe this tool could be for anyone, whether you're interested in:
- learning more about the ideas by yourself or with others;
- introducing the ideas to others in your household, street or neighbourhood and exploring their implications together; or
- connecting with others at the city, region or national scale to work towards the deeper systemic shifts that are needed.
How long does it take?
It could take just 5 or 10 minutes to flick through some of the possibilities in the tool, but if you want to go deeper, you can set aside an hour or two to read some of the tools and stories contained within Communities: Let's Get Started.
Some of the tools contained here are processes that you can start now but are several months or years long.
Use it as a signpost for things you might want to do straight away, do in future or share with others.
Acknowledgements
This tool was made by Rob Shorter, with design contributions from Ruurd Priester; Doughnut Economics conceptual contributions from Kate Raworth; communications and technical support from Aimee Laurel and Karn Bianco.
Tool contributions from Mona Ebdrup, Magda Petford, CIVIC SQUARE, Huddlecraft, Jacob Rask, Kavita Purohit, Nettes Derbyshire, Charlotte Bailey, Zoe Gilbertson, The Jump and Leonora Grcheva.
Story contributions from Rieta Aliredjo, Nicole Hartmann, Ben McCallan, Olivia Carpenter-Lomax, Steph Bleach, Roisin Markham, Louise Byng, Tim Frenneaux, Miho Shimizu, Chris Paddock, Robertson Work, Karin Eyben, Sikander Bizenjo, Andrew Fanning, Rosana Rezende, Emi Imai, Alice Howard-Vyse, Kiran Kashyap, Pete Dowson, Zohar Ianovici, Rosa Tibosch, Nicole Barling-Luke, Eva Valencia Lenero, Franziska Raedeker, Dave Kearney-Brown, Della Duncan, Brian Dowling, Anne Sheridan, Aaron Blanco, Bjørn Hauger, Ellen Sjong and Kate Raworth.
Thank you to everyone for their generous contributions!
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Angelo McNeive
Bray, Leinster, Ireland
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Matthew Byrne
Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Shannon Coles
Otley, West Yorkshire
I am a volunteer with Otley 2030, a group set up to work with our community to build a climate friendly and socially just town
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Jenni Brooks
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
I am Doughnut Economics/ Engagement Lead at Climate Action Leeds, working for a 'zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s'. This is an ambitious, Lottery-funded project linking up local and city-wide communities to act, plan and build a movement of action and change. We are using Doughnut methodologies to help us do this in a range of ways. - We set up the Leeds Doughnut Coalition which has been meeting regularly for over 3 years - We carried out the first Leeds Doughnut City Portrait in 2022 with the University of Leeds providing a data baseline for the city: https://www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/leedsdoughnut - We have made 2 short illustrated films - the first is about the Leeds Doughnut here: - The second short film, 'The Clothes We Wear' is about clothing and fashion through a doughnut lens: https://www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/post/the-clothes-we-wear-cal-launches-fashion-film-at-major-leeds-event channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@climateactionleeds864 - Working with the Roundhay Environmental Action Project in a Leeds neighbourhood to develop a local doughnut selfie portrait.
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Bjørn Hauger
Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norge
Bjørn Hauger (PhD) is a sociologist. He has worked at Vestfold University College in Norway and has also worked as a consultant. He has extensive experience with the use of the strength-based action research tradition Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as an approach to work with organizational development and change processes in the public sector. Hauger has written several publications on this topic.
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Blair Evans
Idlewild, Michigan, United States of America
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Jannis Niethammer
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
Student in Environmental Governance
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Duncan Crowley
Lisbon, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal
I’m an Irish architect in Lisbon, doing a PhD in “Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories” in ISCTE and working on Horizon2020 project UrbanA (Urban Arenas for sustainable and just cities) in FCUL. While living in Curitiba, Brazil (2014-18), I did a masters in Environment and Development. Living in Barcelona (2006-13) I co-founded the local Transition group and gained a Permaculture Design Certificate (2010) at Mas Franch, also active in Barcelona Indignado square occupations 2011. I worked with Eco Intelligent Growth on LEED and Cradle to Cradle certification, collaborated with William McDonough and developed a White Paper for the Sustainable Urban Development of Barcelona for the Catalan Government. An Ecocity activist since Banja Luka, Bosnia (2003), I set up the Curitiba Ecocity Festival during the 2017 Ecocity World Summit. I represented ECOLISE at COP25 in Madrid 2019 and was part of the Climate Social & Climate Justice Caravan, with indigenous groups, during COP15
