When Business Meets the Doughnut

Excellent tool for raising stakeholder awareness as part of CSR strategies.

Before the "Doughnut" we were using the basic ideas in a core curriculum for academia and business workshops. Currently applying the ideas in the arena of ESG's particularly in the finance arena

The Frankfurt Doughnut Coalition is starting to think about a variety of workshops that we could run for interested stakeholders in the city. Obviously, for-profit business (especially in the banking sector!) is an important target group. I was wondering how far along the DEAL team is in developing workshop materials that the various city coalitions may be able to use and adapt for this purpose?

I'm planning to use this in my work with businesses and student enterprise. I am aware that DEAL are developing the business interface and I do no wish to undermine this! I plan to use the resource here and concentrate on the design of the business (Vision, networks, governance, finance, ownership), rather than creating a doughnut dashboard for each business.(for example, I am developing a course for growing agri-tech business). I have long thought that they key to this subject is vision and ownership so it is reassuring to see the DEAL business design building blocks. I have read the FAQ and signed up to the terms of use. If the DEAL team have any concerns please do contact me - I don't want to overstep or undermine. I am based at a university and I run a social enterprise called WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise). Thank you.

Fantastic resource. Thank you.

Has the DEAL team look into the connection between the need for business to be fundamentally a viable and sustainable such as the Cybernetics Viable System Model and the capability maturity of the same business to climb the Corporate To Do List of reaching the goal of Do the Doughnut?
A great example of a viable business as featured on this platform is Houdini just going by the following statements found in their planetary assessment report:
* "we look upon our own organization as an interconnected and interdependent system"
* "In order to reach our vision, systemic change will be required. We need to embrace complexity, acquire holistic, robust and in-depth understanding of the complex systems we are part of in order to understand how to engage in, contribute to or change them"
* "We have found our “common sense” to be especially valuable when navigating complex systems. “The goal is not to
crack the code but to catch the rhythm”, is a quote that comes to mind when attempting to describe our ways of navigating and staying on course. It is a quote from the essay “Practicality in Complexity” by Nora Bateson, the researcher, writer and founder of the International Bateson Institute who has devoted her life to systems thinking and patterns in living systems."
Does the DEAL team aware of any open data to validate my claim above that businesses must be fundamentally viable before it can embark on its journey to do the Doughnut? I have checked firms data on The World Bank database but to no avail. Please help!

Two clear, simple introductions to applying the Doughnut to businesses. Made me want to find out more and think about how I can apply this to my own context.