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Scott Urban @urbanturbo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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Subscribers of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social be sure to read right to the end of today's newsletter. As the saying goes: Fortune favours the bold.

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🎉😎 Launched a new book (as a co-editor)! ***Doughnut Economics for Regenerative Business Design *** 14 case studies exploring how the deep design of a business (e.g. ownership, governance...) unlocks regenerative & distributive dynamics. Open Access: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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Frank Kumli @frankkumli.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Doughnut Economics isn’t a tweak—it’s a redesign! Align purpose, networks, governance, ownership & finance. Real impact comes from system coherence, not isolated initiatives. www.linkedin.com/posts/kumli_... #innovation #systems #regeneration #doughnuteconomics @erinchsahan.bsky.social

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/03/2026

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The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

📣 My new TEDx talk in Prague. Recorded during a time of transition - between leaving @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social and just starting at @jrf-uk.bsky.social, I took a moment to reflect on my 20 years attempting to transform the world of business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=URBo...

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What's stopping businesses from being a force for good? | Erinch Sahan | TEDxPrague

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The Mandelson scandal has shone a light on systemic issues in the British State. This is about wealth, power, and undue access - not just a few bad apples.

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

NEW ARTICLE | Transforming Businesses for People & Planet DEAL and ECOnGOOD combined the two powerful tools 'Doughnut Design for Business' and 'Common Good Balance Sheet' to rethink how businesses impact people and the planet. Read it here: bit.ly/3XioJmn #DoughnutEconomics #DoughnutBiz

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A shared goal between ECOnGOOD and Doughnut Economics - Economy for the common good

The shared goal of transforming businesses motivated the combination of two powerful tools: the Doughnut Design for Business (DDfB) and the Common Good Balance Sheet (CGBS). The result is an article t...

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Should companies pay dividends if worker pay isn't even keeping pace with inflation? If your answer is also HELL NO, then you'd be interested in this concept. The Wage Lock: companies should not distribute profits to shareholders unless employee pay has increased at least in line with inflation.

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#GlobalDonutDays 2025 | Business Session: Insights on using #DoughnutEconomics with businesses Join @erinchsahan.bsky.social & guests for this session focused on transforming the deep design of businesses. 14 Oct | 3:30 PM (UK) More info and register here: tinyurl.com/4pswnudw

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🍩 Global Donut Days! 📅 Business session 14 Oct ⌚ 10.30am US Eastern / 11.30am Brazil / 3.30pm UK/ 4.30pm Europe / 5.30pm Turkey / 8pm India Join me & a practitioners from around the world to hear about how to use #DoughnutEconomics with businesses. Register👇 doughnuteconomics.org/events/busin...

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Business Session: Insights on using Doughnut Economics with businesses | DEAL

An introduction, with insights from practitioners on using Doughnut Economics to unlock transformations in businesses.

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Bernie did a bad job debating Rogan on climate. He failed to say that it's the [very few] scientists who cast doubt on human-caused climate change THAT ARE ACTUALLY THE ONES EARNING THE BIG BUCKS (via fossils funding). And scientists who demonstrate that climate change is real aren't getting rich.

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I think the same thing played out with vaccine science. At some point, you either trust or distrust the scientific institutions.

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Climate is a bit different. You can see some of its impacts, but some of these also happened before industrialisation (some extreme weather, changes in weather patterns...). So if you don't trust scientists, how how do you decide on which storms & heat-waves would have happened anyway?

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Why does #nature cut through but not #climate? Loss of forests, sea-life, healthy soils, real food... this is all tangible. It's easier to believe the science on this.

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1.2m companies in the US employing 58m people could transition into #EmployeeOwnership (1/3rd of the US civilian labour force). For investors, it's a $1 trillion investment opportunity. A huge opportunity to build wealth & resilience. 👉 Amazing new report from Transform Finance: bit.ly/EObriefing

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Transform Finance Briefing: The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight.pdf

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It was a way into raising all the amazing purpose-led models being pursued, like #StewardOwnership #EmployeeOwnership #CommunityOwnership #NatureOnTheBoard... These new forms of relationship between investment & business are driving the amazing innovations in #PurposeDrivenBusiness.

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🥊 If all that doesn’t hook you, of course there is also the drama between Altman & Musk. We were also joined by Page Hedley, former policy & ethics adviser at OpenAI, who explained what has changed in the governance of the company, and why it matters so much.

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💰 Also, limit was set on extraction by investors (of 100x). But then investors demanded more - 100x was insufficient. They expected to make much more than $100m for every $1m they invest. So the company restructured, bringing into question if the non-profit can really enforce society's interests.

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The evolution of OpenAI seemed a good way in. The company was set up with the recognition that shareholder & society interests often diverge on AI. And that a non-profit needs to control its governance so as to prioritise society's interests. So a non-profit was set up to control the company.

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

How do we get the media interested in purpose-led business? This morning on the BBC World Service, I gave it a go. See from 39 min mark: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe? 🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that! 🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e... 🙏 Feedback welcome

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

You’re invited to watch live as @erinchsahan.bsky.social, Business and Enterprise Lead at @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social, and other experts consider how business can help fill the global climate-leadership gap.

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ImpactAlpha @impactalpha.com · 15/05/2025

@aunniep.bsky.social and @erinchsahan.bsky.social of @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social lay out a vision to reimagine capital – to make it accountable, inclusive and regenerative. How to design funds to have greater impact. #InnovativeFinance impactalpha.com/innovative-f...

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My life story in 14 minutes. Here's the summary from Evan Davis & BBC. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/54Ot... 🎧 iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Bottom Line - Decisions That Made Me: Erinch Sahan (DEAL, Social Enterprise expert) - BBC Sounds

Erinch Sahan on switching careers because he wanted one that aligned with his values.

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Can you have regenerative leadership within a business that's dominated by extractive finance? Yesterday at #ChangeNow, we explored this.

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Jesse Griffiths @jesselgriffiths.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

At the end of a slightly terrifying week, where a major financial crisis was averted – for now – I thought I’d reflect on whether such a crisis might happen anyway, and what this means for UK financial sector policy. A thread. /1

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Frank Kumli @frankkumli.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Doughnut Design for Business! These case studies highlight aspects of real-world businesses that can be helpful in understanding the concept of #regenerative and #distributive enterprise design www.linkedin.com/posts/kumli_... @erinchsahan.bsky.social #innovation #sustainability #climate

Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This Wednesday, we're officially launching 26 case studies of businesses around the world... to explore the models & real world practice of regenerative & distributive enterprise design. Join me & @kateraworth.bsky.social & 15 case study authors for the launch! doughnuteconomics.org/events/busin...

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Business Case Studies Launch | DEAL

Launching case studies that explore real-world businesses through the perspective of Doughnut Design for Business

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I'm proud to be a part of this commission on democratic business, supporting the Spanish VP Yolanda Diaz.

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🚀 We are launching our Doughnut Design for Business case studies! Join me & @kateraworth.bsky.social + amazing team of authors to hear the what we learned thru our 6 month research + writing journey! 📆 5 March at 3pm GMT / 4pm CEST / 10am EST / 8.30pm IST 🔗 doughnuteconomics.org/events/busin...

Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Saw this from @gwkoren.bsky.social on LinkedIn. A great reminder that: 1. ownership models shape what a business can do & be in the world 2. in the battle for our online town squares, alternatives exist!

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Last year, the government committed to a landmark Pensions Review - the first opportunity in two decades to overhaul the £3 trillion private pension system. 🤔 So what does this mean for the divestment movement? 👇👇

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Not true. Given growth hasn't been improving people's lives in the UK, and the utter lack of evidence that growth can be sufficiently decoupled from it's ecological impacts, another way forward is to promote a post-growth economy that prioritises wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries.

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Promoting green growth does not make you an ‘eco-nutter’. It’s the only way forward

Heading off the environmental crisis and growing the economy are not at odds. They are two sides of a coin – as our politicians should realise

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Fickle companies & investors (are jumping off DEI, ESG & other agendas. They want to stay with 'the pack' to avoid reputational & political risks. Meanwhile, others are deepening their commitments on climate, human rights, biodiversity... This political moment is separating the wheat from the chaff.

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Erinch Sahan @erinchsahan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How are companies responding to the latest round of the 'culture wars'? 🎙️ Was on BBC Radio 4's *THE BOTTOM LINE* with Evan Davis to explore current responses, and what could come next. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Bottom Line - DEI: Are Businesses Dumping Workplace Diversity? - BBC Sounds

Has the Trump-inspired vibe shift already reached the UK?

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We ask ppl to think so boldly & write down regenerative ideas that are so challenging, that they push beyond their current power - even for a founder, owner or CEO. By doing so, we are understanding the limits imposed by their current enterprise design, & begin to explore how this design can evolve.

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But naming the big changes is scary. Genuinely pursuing it is often career limiting. The ideas involve enormous risk (to say the least), and involve stepping away from the profitable status-quo. But it drives uncomfortable but necessary discussions that can catalyse a deep redesign of any business.

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🌍 It becomes about transitioning... moving away from fast fashion, intensive agriculture, single-use packaging, exploitative supplier pricing, fossil fuels, poverty wages... and to what the future must look like for that business to belong to it.

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🐘 Asking 'what idea is so bold it could get you fired' often feels like pointing out the elephant in the room. It shows that the scale & nature of the transformation that awaits goes far beyond incremental & technological advances.

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