Transforming Businesses for People and Planet

Overview

Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) and ECOnGOOD teamed up with a shared goal: to help transform businesses.

By bringing together two powerful tools — DEAL's Doughnut Design for Business and ECOnGOOD's Common Good Balance Sheet — this collaboration opens new possibilities for reimagining the impact that for-profit organisations can have on people and the planet.

A DEAL & ECOnGOOD joint article is now available to support consultants and facilitators in this work. Download the PDF file from Attachments.

Why use it?

This article guides advisors, consultants and facilitators to use the concepts of Economy for the Common Good and Doughnut Economics with for-profit organizations (businesses). The article focuses on the two primary tools through which each of these concepts can be used with businesses: the Common Good Balance Sheet (CGBS) and the Doughnut Design for Business tool (DDfB). Written for the practitioners of these tools (i.e. people working with or within businesses), it includes suggestions for how each tool can be used at different stages of a company’s journey. The article also describes the common goals underpinning the CGBS and DDfB tool, as well as some tangible ways these tools can be used complementarily, and to reinforce each other. 

Acknowledgements

This work was a collaboration between DEAL and ECOnGOOD.
Authors: M. Culka, J. Hofstede, G. Pepels, A. Prehn, E. Sahan
Collaborators: H. Brosche, L. Cornaglia, I. Larik, C. Schleicher.

Image: ECOnGOOD