Reflections on Monday's Doughnut Economics workshop

Country snapshots and DE at a local scale

Hello!

On Monday we ran an ‘Introduction to Doughnut Economics’ workshop at Space4. Tickets sold out, so we had a full house 🥳 🍩

Introduction to Doughnut Economics, Space4, 22nd May 2023

During the workshop, we spent some time looking at the country trends at goodlife.leeds.ac.uk. These visualisations represent a snapshot of specific countries in a given year, using data to map social shortfall or environmental overshoot. We had a spirited discussion about how we might take a more long-term view in today’s snapshots. For example, countries like the UK have a far longer history of planetary overshoot than countries from the Global South.

Most recent country trend for the UK, goodlife.leeds.ac.uk

There were also lots of questions on applying the ideas at a local scale. We’ll discuss this topic in more detail during our upcoming workshops (19th June and 17th July). For now, I wanted to share some of what we talked about on Monday:

Doughnut Economics at a Local Scale 

London Undergrowth was founded as part of a Civic Square project that sought to explore Doughnut Economics at a neighbourhood scale. You can see some of our reflections and projects here: medium.com/the-london-undergrowth. 

This was part of a broader exploration (by other neighbourhood-based groups, Civic Square's full-time team, and other partners). As part of that work, Civic Square created a local Data Portrait for Ladywood (in Birmingham):

• There’s a detailed writeup of that project on Doughnut Economics Action Lab

• Civic Square has also published the full project on their Notion site

• There's some great detail and plenty of WIP, so it's worth digging around (I got lost in their public spreadsheet, for example)

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Hope to see you soon (perhaps at one of our upcoming workshops?)

John 💚