Discover the Community

Meet and join a community of pioneering changemakers from across the globe who are turning Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action.

Welcome to the DEAL Community!

The DEAL Community is everyone who is exploring the ideas of Doughnut Economics and pioneering ways to put the ideas into practice.

This includes educators, policy makers, community members, business people, artists, academics, designers, young people, facilitators, oh, and the occasional economist.

We believe economies of the 21st century will be practiced first and theorised later, and we believe they will be put inspired by the creativity, imagination, skill and perspectives of everyone.

That means everyone is welcome!

What we offer is an open-source commons of inspiration and tools to apply to your context, some created by the DEAL Team, but mostly created by members of the DEAL Community.

What we ask in return is that you use the ideas and tools with integrity, by following our guidelines as we lay out in our guidelines page.

Meet members of DEAL Community

Meet and join pioneering changemakers who are turning Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action. 

David Kettner

Berlin, Germany

I want to learn more about economics which respect the planet.

Rosa Groot

Berlin, Germany

I'm a fan of the experiment mindset

Stuart Hopper

UK

I would like to learn and build more connections between what I know of law, economic anthropology and doughnut economics

Sadia Irfan

Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

I am looking to find innovations in the field of economics to better understand the current global issues and combat problems.

Mariana Silva

Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

With a focus on intricate issues such as sustainable development, my goal is to actively contribute to collective solutions.

Massimo Calamassi

8003, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Co-creating regenerative cultures together!

Angela Nardozzi

Seattle, Washington, United States

I am looking to meet other DEAL members and work collaboratively to apply the action framework to our local context.

Fran Graham

Skipton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Following an inspiration lecture from Kate, I'd like to explore Doughnut Economics in my MSc dissertation.

Erin Andrea Craske

England

I aim to elevate the world by empowering ethical business leaders to succeed on their terms & spread a ripple effect of goodness.

David Sharpley

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

I would like to share insights from applied psychology, notably organisational psychology, with future-focused economists!

Local Groups & Networks

Self-organising networks turning the ideas of Doughnut Economics into action. Find a group or network in your area and get involved! 

Local governments in action

Pioneering places around the world are turning Doughnut Economics into practice. Local governments at many scales - from villages to megacities - are adopting the tools and concepts of Doughnut Economics in order to help bring about a thriving future.

Worthing Borough Council is exploring how the principles of Doughnut Economic can feed into their local policies. 

Bannau Brycheiniog  National Park Management Plan 2023-2028 The Park has developed a Park Doughnut and put it at the core of their National Park Management Plan 2023-2028, as a framework to define future actions, with the targets and indicators set to be used for monitoring progress. The Management Plan is a vision setting document, setting the high level objectives for the park through the Doughnut, with action plans then meant to be delivered in partnership with various stakeholders. The aim of this plan is to eliminate all of the red from the Doughnut diagram, and the plan defines five Missions in response to the biggest over-shoots.   

The City of Glasgow has ambitions to move towards a Green Wellbeing Economy in order to meet its social and environmental targets, and has joined C40's Thriving Cities Initiative. An important step in the process of becoming a thriving city is the creation of a (Doughnut Economics) City Portrait, a tool for thinking about Glasgow in a holistic and innovative way. University of Glasgow worked with the city to develop the first City Portrait, as part of the GALLANT project that uses Glasgow as a living lab to trial new sustainable solutions taking a whole-systems approach. In 2023, the Thriving Definitions of the first portrait (the Glasgow Doughnut) were adopted by the council to guide their future work, and to help forge new alliances across Glasgow's many organisations, businesses and individuals across the whole system. 

After commissioning a study evaluating the possibilities of applying Doughnut Economics in Tomelilla, the town is bringing Doughnut Economics into their work and policies in various ways - by basing their Sustainability Report 2022 on the Doughnut, planning the development of a new school based on the principles of Doughnut Economics, developing a Data Portrait, and exploring the development of an impact assessment and evaluation tool.   

Dublin City Council agreed a motion in 2022 to embed the principles of Doughnut Economics into their Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) - a statutory six-year plan, with the aim to expand from a sustainable growth-based framework to pursuing the wellbeing and prosperity for all people and the environment.

Since 2021, the local government of Valence Romans Agglo have been using the Doughnut as a tracking and monitoring tool for over 20 strategic projects, developing contextualised social and ecological indicators, evaluating the potential impact of these projects and steering their development. 

In 2022, Perak State launched their 5-year State Strategy that, as one of the strategy’s Flagship Programmes, sets an ambition for the city of Ipoh to be living in the Doughnut, and to use a monitoring framework using the Doughnut. 

Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) are bringing Doughnut Economics into their core strategies, including their new Local Plan, to guide the review, prioritisation and improvement of policies and projects, based on their potential social and ecological impact.   

The Regional Spatial Strategy for Thimphu-Paro Region, led by the Royal Commission of Bhutan and the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement and developed by a team of architects led by Prior+Partners, uses Doughnut Economics as one of the guiding frameworks, aligning it with Bhutan's Gross National Happiness framework. 

The state of São Paulo is launching the Ecologic Economic Zoning (EEZ-SP), a planning tool that establishes guidelines for spatial and territorial management, according to the environmental and socioeconomic potentialities and vulnerabilities of the different regions of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, composed by 645 municipalities.   Doughnut Economics was one of the inspirations used for the conception of the methodology of construction of the zoning, based on the diagnosis and prognosis of the state in relation to five strategic guidelines: Resilience to Climate Change, Water Security, Safeguarding Biodiversity, Competitive and Sustainable Economy and Reduction of Regional Inequalities.  For its elaboration and implementation, the EEZ-SP relies on an integrated and shared platform with updatable and freely accessible territorial information, as well as on strategies of institutional articulation and of public participation. 

Organisations in action

Many consultancies, NGOs and others are putting Doughnut Economics into practice in their work. Find out who they are, and what they're doing. 

The Masters in Sustainable Business Transition at The Hogeschool Utrecht (Univ. of Applied Sciences) is using the tools of Doughnut Economics (e.g. the Doughnut Design for Business tool) through its students. The students of the Masters programme will be delivering workshops with their own clients as a part of their studies.  The integration of Doughnut Economics into the Masters in Sustainable Business Transition at The Hogeschool Utrecht is led by Naomi Thellier de Poncheville. Naomi is a Creative Impact strategist, facilitator and coach, focused on the design, development and adaptation to circular and regenerative business cultures, practices, and value creation. She is also a part-time lecturer affiliated to Creative Business, and the International Business Studies at the Hogeschool Utrecht (University of Applied Sciences). View our public declaration form here 

Institute for Circular Economy (ICE) is a Bulgarian NGO active at the intersection of circular economy, wellbeing, biomimicry and regenerative design. We create educational tools, university level course material, provide workshops, and are active at the policy front.  Public declaration form

Wylde Connections is a sustainability consultancy which helps businesses to develop and implement their sustainability strategies. Our Five Step model takes companies on a transformative journey of Assess, Develop, Implement, Engage and Transform. The ultimate aim is for businesses to become purpose-led with sustainability, ethical and responsible practices embedded throughout all their business operations. View our public declaration form here

Lukie set up Lucid Insight in 2014 to help companies with sustainable innovation, focusing on resource use, including industrial symbiosis, circular economy and waste utilisation. Since 2018, Lukie has been working with farmers, landowners, consortiums, SMEs and crop-to-product companies to explore regenerative agri-food systems, and development of biochemicals, biomaterials and other natural products to displace petrochemical and synthetic resources. With the discovery of the core original rewilding principles of letting nature take the lead and living in harmony with ohe lie, along with concepts from Donella Meadows and others on systems thinking and ecological economics, the revelation of doughnut economics gives a further practical framework to help communicate and explore solutions with organisations, regions and individuals. Lukie is part of the core team of the Oxfordshire Doughnut Economics group and is working with the development of sustainable agri-food systems, including as partner on the CenCHCx3 project. View our public declaration here 

We are a team of change-seekers looking to reshape the economy. SMEs currently represent 99% of the UK economy. Yet these companies often have no idea about how they contribute to social and environmental issues and most importantly what they can do to become regenerative businesses. We help them do just that, and in doing so we’re building the economic model of the future. One where people, planet and companies operate in complete harmony with one another. View our public declaration form here

One Stone Asia Pacific is a purpose-driven, women-owned sustainability advisory firm specialising in sustainability leadership, strategy, impact measurement, reporting and engagement. Our mission is to help clients become more effective sustainability leaders. Our aim is to help every business be a greater force for good and create measurable positive impact through every project we do.  View our public declaration here 

Growunited is an independent, non-profit, local organisation founded in 2021 with the main goal of promoting and developing civil society. It works to bring together people from diverse backgrounds, involve youth and citizens in decision-making processes, and encourage participation in democratic life. View our public declaration form here

"Tech forward, heart centered" encapsulates our ethos. Leveraging technology, we strive to positively impact people's lives. Our focus aligns with the sociological foundation of Doughnut Economics. This involves fostering a conducive work environment, advancing education, promoting health, ensuring gender equality, and upholding peace and justice. View our public declaration here

Litmus Sustainability is a pioneering sustainability consultancy that helps time-poor businesses become highly-regarded, climate-fit enterprises in rapid time. We understand sustainability can be an overwhelming, confusing, onerous and often frustratingly slow process. So we’ve made it our job to take away the chore and bore through collaborative, interactive experiences. Our unique methods are grounded in the latest cutting-edge academic thinking on business design and innovation to help clients understand how to thrive in a low-carbon world. View our public declaration here 

Leaving a footprint with the Huella Cero Community to plant and care for more trees in the world. View our public declaration here 

Upcoming events

Upcoming Doughnut Economics events - both online and in-person - by and for the DEAL Community. Have a browse or host your own event! 

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Tools & Stories

Open access tools that anyone can use to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action; and inspiring examples and case studies of Doughnut Economics in action in a broad range of places and contexts.

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