What is a Regenerative Doughnut?
Hint: It bridges local actions to meet global climate goals.
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth authored a unifying economic theory of change to thrive in the 21st century. This involves finding the safe and just space between the social foundations (The inside circle of the doughnut) for us to flourish and the planetary boundaries that protect Earth’s life-supporting systems, ensuring we don’t continue to exceed our ecological ceiling (The outside circle of the doughnut). Here’s a great animated series in her words to break it all down. Additionally, follow my TikTok as I unpack its practical applications on a 1-acre regenerative pilot in West MI @prosperityforest
Crucially, the Doughnut Economic (DE) framework acknowledges a profound truth, that economics as a field has failed us as a measure of national health focused on Goods and Growth. The goal of unlimited growth feels so…20th century. Chasing the Goods and Growth model of extractive economies rely on limited resources, destroys ecosystems, creates waste, and accelerates both climate change and exploitative inequities based on legacies of colonialization and genocide. Nothing in nature experiences unlimited growth, in fact in terms of physical health, unlimited growth is classified as a tumor or even cancerous. Instead of growth, DE suggests an economic framework…
