
Four lenses - Four questions of city portrait
Use as a starting point for conversations and engagement in your community, to get people thinking and talking!

Overview
Template for the four key questions to start off your city portrait, ready for you to adapt for your place.
Available as Google Slides (online), OpenOffice Presentation, or Microsoft PowerPoint. Hope you find it useful.
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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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Application of Doughnut Economics to Sports Sector
Project seminar at the University of Bayreuth focusses on the application of the Doughnut Economics to the sports sector
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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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Donut Brasil bursts into life!
Connecting diverse communities of practice around the idea and principles of the Donut
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Exploring sustainability in digital tech
Can Doughnut Economics be used as a holistic way of exploring the digital tech sector’s impact on global sustainability?
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Tampere Region using the City portrait
Tampere Region was the first place in Finland to use the City Portrait method
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Doughnut Economics as a Strategic Compass
Report and case studies - how can municipalities use the Doughnut for impact-oriented transformation
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Coalición Tricolor CDMX-Tricolor Coalition MexCity
Somos un grupo de agentes de cambio interesados en una transición sustentable de la CDMX
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Ed Jarvis
St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
After 20 years as a senior programme manager at PwC, most recently leading PwC's Social Value Transformation, and in the context of a Climate and Nature Crisis that is unfurling right now, I want to help build a regenerative world. A world where human connection and experiences are valued more than consumption and materialism, and where our species can live in a regenerative way with nature and the environment. I see Donut Economics as a fundamental part of how we do this as a species.
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Rodrigo Pontón
Mexico City
From consumerism mercenary to change catalyst. After a decade building marketing strategies that maximized profits, I had an uncomfortable but necessary revelation: my skills were serving the wrong system. My transformation began when I saw myself for what I really was: a "consumerism mercenary." But I also discovered something powerful; the same tools I used to drive consumption could become amplifiers of systemic solutions. Why this transition mattersMillions of professionals are experiencing the same "awakening" I went through. We need bridges between the commercial world and social sector—translators who help scale innovations that truly matter. My north star: That my work generates community autonomy, not product dependency. What I bring to the social innovation ecosystem• Applied systems thinking: Translating complex ideas into narratives that mobilize communities • Regenerative strategic sommunication: 12+ years helping organizations articulate their transformative purpose • Collaborative leadership: Developing team autonomy, not hierarchical dependency • Transition facilitation: Expert at navigating undefined spaces and innovating without clear roadmaps. Does this transition resonate with you? Would you lead social innovation projects together? 📧 Let's connect: t.link/rodrigoponton [Communication + Strategy + Systems thinking]
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günther fischer
Dietramszell, Bayern, Deutschland
less but better! Weniger Verbrauch, mehr Qualität, mehr Verantwortung. Wir müssen selbst beginnen und entschlossen die Bereitschaft zur Veränderung zeigen. Nachhaltigkeit kann weder konsumiert noch delegiert werden.
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Kaleopono Norris
Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America
Retired community service organization professional, truck farmer, carpenter, handyman, property manager. Now active as a founder of Hui Kanaka Kalaiʻaina and the Kanaka Party intent on transforming democratic government in Hawai'i.
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Poa Jonas
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Antares Reisky
Hamburg, Deutschland
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Jeremy Melder
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Beaming Green Podcast
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Peter Dillon
Leyland, UK
Interested in rewilding the soul, soil and society