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)

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Hello! I'm currently working as Source for the Piʌot Project - the emergent people-powered movement for regenerative transformation. [Towards a more beautiful future] [ Towards a more beautiful future ] I'm also a regenerative business designer, a bookseller selling nature/travel/adventures books that help folk reconnect with themselves and the rest of the natural world, as well as a collaborator with the Leeds Doughnut Coalition. Before finding my wings in 2020 I was the Head of Policy at the York and North Yorkshire LEP where I developed England's first, and only, carbon-negative Local Industrial Strategy, integrated the UN SDG's into our decision making and project appraisal processes and pioneered the implementation of design thinking in the public sector. In my work now I'm investigating the role that we puny humans and our powerful businesses can play in nurturing a more beautiful future via a post-growth economy.

York, England, United Kingdom

I'm convinced we can use two levers - entrepreneurship and technology - to make agriculture more profitable, productive and sustainable. Farming is complex, and entrepreneurship is complex. Neither is remotely easy! Nonetheless I'm sure there are many ways growing exciting new businesses, can help to move the needle on less damaging farming practices, improving food security and environmental impact as a result. I'm probably the only person who's ever been both a Stanford MBA and a Nuffield Farming Scholar, which gives me a unique combination of perspectives, all accompanied by endless curiosity.

Barcelona, Catalunya, España

Founder of Postfuturear, an agency based on advanced strategic foresight aiming to help SMEs and public local sector to think, embrace and plan toward better futures than the official

Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Here to learn and to change the world! I admire Kate since the very first time I listened to her. My world is marketing and ideas, preferably good ideas. Please feel free to contact me. Best, Rodrigo

Tampere, Länsi-Suomi, Finland

A Culture gardener working on improving the (economic) cultural soil and planting seeds for flourishing ecosocial regeneration. Creating tools, space and ways of communication for taking care of this garden. Helping grow regeneratively two cooperatives, Ehta Raha & Jälleenrakentajat.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Developing communities of practice and inquiry to link businesses and organisations interested in tackling the climate emergency through sustainable work practices. We envisage a hub bringing together like minded people and organisations, to act as a living lab, build and share good practice through projects and flourishing communities. Using our individual and collective agency to embed sustainable business models, circular design and supply chains and responsible management practices in an actionable, kind and ethical manner. Our projects link students, scholars and practitioners to build, test and embed MVPs (minimum viable products) that enable SMEs (Small to Medium Sized enterprises) to cut waste, design, build and deliver circular products and services. The ultimate aim of the hub, is to test approaches that can be replicated across the UK and Globally to help us to meet our UN Sustainable Development Goal commitments.

Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia

I describe myself as a continuous learner who has a passion for designing strategies to solve complex problems businesswise. However, I cannot stick only to the business side of things as our present has demonstrated that life and business are not as apart as I thought a few years ago. They are completely linked, and one relies on the other on a process that is constantly trying to find a clever (not always wise) way to help us, humans, perdure. For me, DEAL is HOPE, and it's giving us, humans, a new chance to make things right (and wise).

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa