🍩 Doughnut Assessment
Activities
Sydney Doughnut Economy
They use the doughnut model with eyes open to both its strengths and limits. Adapted to Sydney, it captures place-specific ecological and social dimensions. For them it works as bridge and compass—supporting systems thinking that turns into action, speaking enough of the language of current institutions while holding a relational ethos. Across activities, it functions as a shared tool to grow systemic leadership and see past silos.
Devon Doughnut Project
In 2020, as the world grappled with the global pandemic, the BLC recognized an opportunity to reimagine their bioregion's future through Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics model. The BLC convene an action design collective, which grew in a year from about seven people to 170. For each domain of the doughnut economics framework, they gathered experts working on the ground in different sectors: coastal marine health, livelihood and work, political voice, and others. Participants identified leverage points in each domain, as well as pathways to action– one particular scenario in each domain that has the power to drive a significant shift. The collective also developed a framework using twinned indicators to create pathways for both citizens and policy makers working side by side. The process produced the Devon Doughnut—an interactive website capturing the current state of affairs in the region, proposing indicators and ways to track them, plus suggested actions to regenerate communities and ecosystems.