Works to turn the ideas of Doughnut Economics — economies that meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet, "regenerative and distributive by design" — into practice. Founded as a UK Community Interest Company in July 2019, it launched an online Community Platform in September 2020 where practitioners worldwide share open-source tools, stories, and events, and works across communities and art, business, cities and regions, schools, research, and government policy. Its own role is thought leadership, policy influence, and co-creating tools with the community, most of which are made by community members rather than the DEAL team. It also convenes Global Donut Days, an annual community-led festival of local and online events.
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Doughnut Economics Action Lab's fourth annual Global Donut Days: a five-day, community-led festival of online and in-person events around the world where people putting Doughnut Economics into practice share what they're doing. This year's sessions cover cities, land and food, who gets to make decisions, ancestral economies and Indigenous voices, and art and imagination — from a Global Doughnut Day evening in San Francisco and a Greater Manchester data-portrait workshop to an online session for educators teaching ecological economics. Each session is posted and run by a local group or community member; find one near you, or an online one, on the festival page and register for it individually.
Doughnut Economics Action Lab's online community for anyone exploring or practicing Doughnut Economics — educators, policymakers, community members, businesses, artists, academics, and young people. Members get a public profile on a world map, post open-source tools, stories, and events, comment on each other's posts, and connect through six themes (communities and art, business, cities and regions, schools, research, government) and topics. Members agree to DEAL's guidelines on using the ideas with integrity.
Checked Oct 21, 2026 for ways to get involved: found the events listed above, and found the communities listed above.
Added Global Donut Days 2026 as a single festival record rather than its individual sessions. Nearly every event on DEAL's calendar (24 in the RSS feed on 2026-10-21, most of them GDD sessions) is posted by a community member or local group, not DEAL — the same index-the-network-not-the-listings call RESEARCH_QUEUE.md makes for ic.org's directory. The DEAL Community Platform is added as a forum: members post tools, stories, and events and comment on each other's, and two dozen member-posted events in one week show it's active.