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Global Donut Days 2024

Online day 6th November 2024

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Join us for Global Donut Days 2024 online day

Global Donut Days (GDD) is a community-led festival from 6 to 9 November 2024 to celebrate and inspire local action and global connection with Doughnut Economics.

Wednesday, 6th November is the online day. During the online day you can hear from inspiring speakers and connect with people around the world who are taking action on Doughnut Economics.

For more information about the Global Donut Days on 7, 8, 9th November go to https://doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutdays2024

Agenda and speakers coming soon

Global Donut Days is co-designed and co-created by pioneering and inspirational members of the global DEAL Community. The online day is no exception. The agenda is being co-created with contributions from dedicated practitioners around the world, and will be launched soon.

Watch the video from the first GDD - featuring in-person and
online events around the world in one day!

What to expect

Spanning time zones from Aotearoa / New Zealand to the West Coast of the Americas, the online day will contain a mix of keynote talks, panel events and connection spaces on key topics including community organising, business design, government policy design, educational materials, artistic methods, value systems, marginalisation and climate justice.

There will be presentations and workshops from community organisers as well as live ‘Local Spotlights’ to hear from people calling in from around the world to talk about their local action on Doughnut Economics.

Why Attend?

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Tools and ideas to start
Are you looking for a reason or support to start local action with Doughnut Economics where you are? The online day will help spark ideas and give you the springboard you need. You'll hear from inspiring speakers, learn about the tools to get started and connect with those already taking action.

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Inspiration to take the next step
Are you looking to take the next step with Doughnut Economics? The online day will give you inspiration for new things to try, ideas for how to connect with new audiences locally and create a sense of global solidarity in the systemic tensions you may be navigating.

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Connect with the global Community
Are you looking to connect with others? Throughout the online day there will be spaces to connect with people around the world to share your questions, stories, ideas and more. You are not alone in your work. We are all part of a wider and emerging story of change - a story that says a different future is possible and it’s popping up everywhere. This is your chance to make yourself visible and be part of it.

Quotes from Global Donut Day 2023 organisers

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Record your own Local Spotlight

The central theme of Global Donut Days 2024 is local action, global connection. Through this, we can build a sense that we are all part of a wider story of change.

To help do this, we’re inviting you to talk about your local action with Doughnut Economics. We're calling these Local Spotlights.

Send your recordings via WhatsApp to the DEAL Team at +44 7774 760 861. We invite you to record in any language. The Local Spotlights will be shared as part of the online day on 6th November.

Frequently Asked Questions


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The Doughnut is a proposed goal for economies that is ‘to meet the needs of all within the means of the living planet’.

The Doughnut is a diagram that shows us, visually, how we might think about living in balance with the planet. So imagine a doughnut shape with a hole in the middle:
  • The inner ring shows the essential things people need to live well - like food, water, health, energy, housing, education, voice and equality - that everyone should have.
  • The outer ring shows the limits of how much humanity can harm the planet. These limits include things like climate change, loss of species, and other types of pollution.
  • The goal is to live in the "sweet spot" inside the doughnut, between these two rings, where everyone's needs are met without causing too much harm to the planet. We call space 'the safe and just space for humanity'.

The Doughnut is like a 'thinking framework' that helps us see how connected everything is. By showing us these connections it shows us that we need to work together to live more sustainably.

Find out more at https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics
Doughnut Economics is a book that was published in 2017 by Kate Raworth. It offers "seven ways to think like a 21st century economist". One way to think about the book is that if the Doughnut is the destination, Doughnut Economics gives us some ideas to help us get there!

Doughnut Economics draws on ideas from lots of different fields. This includes feminist economics that makes visible the unpaid work in the household and in our communities. And ecological economics that shows how deeply dependent the economy is on the living world. It also shows us how the economic thinking we've inherited from the 20th century is based on very limited models of who we are as people and how systems work. It invites us instead to see ourselves, and the systems around us, as far more complex and relational. Doughnut Economics also proposes that we need economies that are regenerative and distributive by design.
Regenerative, so that we come back within the safe limits of the planet. And distributive, so that everyone has access to the things they need to live well. In summary, Doughnut Economics is an invitation to explore an economic mindset that is fit for the ever more complex and rapidly changing world we find ourselves in, in the 21st century.
Doughnut Economics Action Lab, or ‘DEAL’, is an organisation that helps people put the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice. DEAL was co-founded by Kate Raworth and Carlota Sanz in 2019. In 2020, DEAL launched an online Community Platform to host tools and stories of Doughnut Economics in action. As of 2024, the DEAL Team has 15 paid staff members. The role of the team is to support the needs of the DEAL Community, in line with the Doughnut Principles of Practice. DEAL is part of a wider movement of change working towards a world in which people and planet thrive in balance.

Read more about DEAL and its strategy at https://doughnuteconomics.org/about.
The DEAL Community is the people applying the ideas and tools of Doughnut Economics in their own place, and in their own context, all around the world. This includes in communities, in education, in business, and in government. The home of the DEAL Community is https://doughnuteconomics.org. This is what we call the ‘DEAL Community Platform’.

As of mid-2024, the DEAL Community Platform is made up of nearly 17,000 members in more than 150 countries. Members of the DEAL Community learn as they go, sharing their work and their learnings in the form of tools, stories and events. To date, they have created more than 150 tools, 300 stories, and held nearly 500 events – all with the shared aim of putting the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice. On the DEAL Community Platform, you can find and connect with people in similar contexts to your own, so that you are supported to take action in the way you want. As such, the DEAL Community is a global peer-to-peer community of inspiration, support and learning. Anyone can join the DEAL Community and all the tools and stories are free to use, so long as you follow the Doughnut Principles of Practice. So join us!
Global Donut Days (GDD) is a multi-day, community-led festival, to be held online and in-person around the world on 6 to 9 November 2024.

GDD 2024 will start with an online day on 6th November to hear from and connect with people around the world taking action on Doughnut Economics. This will be followed by three days for locally organised events from 7th to 9th November to connect with people taking action on Doughnut Economics locally.

The central theme of GDD 2024 is local action, global connection. Through this, we can build a sense that we are all part of a wider story of change. A story that says a different future is possible and it’s popping up everywhere.

There are three main ways for you to participate in GDD 2024:
  1. Register for the online day (on 6th November to hear from inspiring speakers and connect with people around the world taking action on Doughnut Economics.
  2. Search for local events to attend between 7th and 9th November to connect with people taking action on Doughnut Economics locally.
  3. Record a Local Spotlight to build a sense that we are all part of a global story of change.

Head to doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutdays2024 to find local events and share your own Local Spotlight.
Yes, the sessions will be recorded and available at this site for one month following 6th
November. After that, a number of sessions will be available at the DEAL youtube - timing for those sessions to be uploaded is to be confirmed.
Resources from speakers, groups, networks or organisations that are holding or contributing to the GDD 2024 online day will be shared on the platform. The content and items shared will vary from speaker to speaker - if you have any specific questions or requests when you have reviewed the agenda, you can email us donutdays@doughnuteconomics.org.
You can log in to the GDD 2024 online day on the day of the event - on 6th November. This landing page is available to view up to the event day (6th November), and it will be updated with speakers and programme during October.
This online GDD 2024 space will be available here for one month after event day. You can login anytime after 6th November for one month.
If you have any questions about the content of the event - speakers, agenda or resources, you can email donutdays@donuteconomics.org.
If you have any technology questions or getting into the event, you can ask at the support button on the page.
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