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. 

Devin Grayson

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I would like to learn different structures and case studies from this community

Begüm Kilimcioğlu

Antwerp, Belgium

I would love to meet like-minded people to have horizon-broadening discussions and perhaps even collaborate on certain projects.

Victor Holmes

Oakland, California, United States

Loving the idea of upper and lower bounds for societal homeostasis!

Vanessa Moutinho

Rio de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Making alternative economics grow in global community, exchanging experiences & wisdom, honoring Brazilian creative potential <3

Ruba Farkh

Saudi Arabia

Regenerative business journey for implementation on

Raimundo Casé

Tocantins, Brazil

Trocar experiências e conhecimentos.

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.

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! 

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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. 

Circl-earth activates more regenerative projects through research action & support to venture builders.  View our public declaration here 

ARNO is an organization established in North Macedonia in 2013, with a special mission to develop and implement social innovation for societal change. We firmly believe that actions should speak for themselves. This is why our initiatives, such as the Annual Competition for Green Ideas, Ideation and Incubation of Social Enterprises, Cooking Classes, and Collaboration with Entrepreneurship Teachers, among others, serve as living examples of our commitment, readiness, and capacity to innovate in addressing social issues. In the Macedonian language, 'ARNO' means 'good.' This powerful word guides us in everything we do, which is why we strive to do good, see the good in others, and aim to be a force for good in our society. We promote a balance between nature and the needs of our society, advocating for economic development that is compatible with environmental sustainability and social justice. View our public declaration here

Exploring new paths of Entrepreneurship! Cycling the world to meet regenerative entrepreneurs to share, capture and spread best practices. 1 tree planted at the end of the adventure every 21kms View our public declaration here

We are a combo of experienced leadership consultants and trained regenerative practitioners & regenerative business leaders.  View our public declaration form here

I lead projects that explore the impact of technology on people and planet, using art, research and workshops to engage as many different people as possible.   I work with organisations on building digital, information and environmental resilience and developing networks for ecological repair. View our public declaration form here  

The Useful Simple Trust is a family of professional design practices driving change. Our experienced and committed engineers, architects, designers and strategists work side-by-side, and with our clients and users, to deliver valuable outcomes with positive impact. Our structure creates real value for our clients, beneficiaries and wider society.  View our public declaration 

Huddlecraft CIC creates collective learning ‘infrastructure’, to amplify the efforts of purposeful individuals, organisations and movements who are building a future regenerative civilisation. View our public declaration here

The School for Change helps people develop into connected and connecting change agents who are able to transform organisations in such a way that they contribute to safe ecological boundaries and a fair social basis for everyone.  View our public declaration here 

Sustainable City by France, The French association of sustainable-city stakeholders, is a place for capitalisation, sharing, and support in the implementation of French expertise and know-how for sustainable cities, both in France and abroad, as part of a “do tank”.  View our public declaration form here

TerrAsun Lab is a consulting services company guiding organizations and regions through their transformational journey towards models that are respectful of the living world and human communities.   Our activities range: -          from one-shot workshops to raise awareness and/or regular training sessions on environmental, social, and economic issues (climate change, biodiversity, water usage, planetary boundaries, green IT & responsible tech, introduction to regenerative economy…) -          to tailor-made and long-term support to organizations in their (radical) transformational journey towards regenerative and distributive models, which could include:  ·         co-construction of an ambitious purpose with multiple stakeholders, ·         identification and prioritisation of change levers, ·         building a roadmap with concrete initiatives and projects,  ·         definition of measurable impact indicators,  ·         new practises to foster conscious leadership and a cooperation culture.   We are experienced facilitators and trainersof several serious games labelled as “Fresks” (playful, collaborative and creative workshops that raises awareness on both environmental and social issues) such as The Climate Fresk, The Planetary Boundaries Fresco, The Digital collage, The Regenerative Econony Fresk, The Agri-Food Fresk … We deploy these tools in corporations (from SMEs to large multinational groups), public institutions, NGOs, universities, and schools. 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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