The focus of our work to date has been on practical projects to understand how the Doughnut currently manifests, or could, in every day life in London.
Each workstream is run by one or two volunteers and are at different stages of development and activity. The list below are active work you might like to join.
With our new publication of the City Portrait we are now refining this into a set of Earthshots - declarations of intent to address the complex social and ecological challenges facing our city. We're strengthening the workstreams that support them, creating the conditions for the Earthshots to succeed.
Underpinning everything is our Data, Evidence and Celebration team - current work includes our Community Mapping project, which surfaces the breadth of activities already happening within the Doughnut.
With our new publication of the City Portrait we are now refining this into a set of Eartshot goals and Working Hubs to make them happen.
Earthshots are becoming an essential foundation of LDEC’s activities, recognising not only the opportunity for London, but also the complexity of the challenges we face. These will not be small pilots; to change the system, they will require multi-partner engagement spanning politics, finance, property and community.
They won't be a solution in themselves; they are optimistic and ambitious interventions which we feel can unlock the systemic transformation we want to see in our economy. And they will only happen if we simultaneously work the catalyst sectors of our active groups.
They will be launched in June 2026.
Inspired by the Earthshots created by Regen Melbourne, our portfolio of work recognises the unique position London holds...
…as a global influencer, with a responsibility to lead by example, with the nuance of thousands of places, communities and habitats.
…as a diverse cultural powerhouse, shaping urban life globally for the last fifty years and the potential to set the agenda for the next half century.
… but also as a place where the negative social and ecological outcomes of the 21st-century economic system are felt more so than in any other city in the UK.
