When Business Meets the Doughnut

In March 2024, we piloted our first Doughnut Economics Workshop. Here’s a taster of how we did it &what we learnt.

An award-like tour trough our region Achterhoek, the Eastern part of The Netherlands

Last months in Bogotá we have been doing events with citizens and schools to put the doughnut teachings into practice.

Opening the space to create transformational change from the heart, not just the head

Can business save the planet? One man is cycling around the world for three years to find out...

Recycling facemasks, medicine pots and inhaler mouthpieces into products using decentralised cradle-to-cradle clusters

An article explaining how teacher-authors got the Doughnut embedded into Kognity's new IB Business Management textbook

Recording of the launch of an Irish DE network, incl. presentation by Rob Shorter (DEAL)

Clonakilty, Ireland

I'm a permaculture practitioner and horticulturist, and work on a part-time basis on an organic farm. As an environmental and climate activist, I was at the forefront of the fossil fuel divestment campaign in Ireland and have led a number of direct action and media campaigns, specifically on Irish forestry policies. I'm also an award-winning songwriter and performer, and i craft ethical products with a circular economy mindset, which i sell at my weekly market stall in Skibbereen.

London, England, United Kingdom and Mexico City, Mexico

They refer to me as the "Mexican Lawyer with a French name in the City of London". I am a partner of the Mexican independent law firm Nader, Hayaux & Goebel (NHG) and trusted advisor of multinational clients and foreign investors on financing transactions, M&A and other operations involving the Mexican and Latin American market, where I lead NHG’s pioneering London office, NHG’s insurance and reinsurance practice group and NHG's regenerative practice group. I serve as NED in two Mexican insurance companies, and I am a member of Chapter Zero UK and founder of Chapter Zero Mexico. My life partner Maria and I enjoy living in Kew Gardens, raising together Jose Pablo (22), Maria Jose (20), Geronimo (18) and Carlota (15), producing films to reconnect with nature and ancestral wisdom to raise consciousness, sharing our experiences in our blog myhaysar.com and being of service, holding space, deep weaving, sharing bread and wine, learning from our own experiences, walking and hiking.

London, England, United Kingdom & Barbados

I am a chartered structural engineer who, in last several years, has held more multi-disciplinary design team leadership roles. I advocate for best practice in design and implementation throughout the built environment with a keen focus on sustainable (environmental, economic and social) development, and beyond resilient design. My project work has been diverse but has included a significant amount of healthcare related projects, and I have been supporting the promotion of healthy lifestyles in the built environment through planning and design. I am also a WELL AP. Disaster mitigation and disaster risk reduction are also key areas of interest. I am originally from the Caribbean region – an area particularly susceptible to natural hazards, such as hurricanes & earthquakes, & increasingly vulnerable because of the climate crisis, all hazards I have addressed in my work. My career has meant I have been based in Barbados, United Kingdom, Belgium, Turkey, Qatar, and The Netherlands.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A self-motivated big picture problem solver, always navigating between the tensions of facilitating the emergence of collective intention from diverse needs of community and efficiently managing the messiness arising from transformative changes in participatory manner.

Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

Berlin, Deutschland

As the co-initiator of Donut Berlin, I am passionate about co-creating regenerative and redistributive cities, and bringing Berlin into the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. I am a polymath, I love learning across the fields of systems thinking, human development, technology management, and sustainable business, and connecting ideas in ways that create long-term value for people and the environment. My experience as a scholar, speaker, founder, author, lecturer, consultant, and community manager has taken me to 30+ countries and reinforced my commitment to collaboration across national, cultural, and geographical divides. I'm currently looking for opportunities to share, spread, co-create, co-develop, and manifest Donut Berlin, and I am always happy to connect with inspiring people, so let's chat! 

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

We work with people who have half an idea, or maybe a whole one, and who don’t really consider themselves business material. We don’t work with the usual suspects. We go to where the businesses are, so we’re a little bit nomadic.