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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Abigail Sykes

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

An illustration shows a modern school with high ceilings and large windows, with plenty of greenery and places to sit.
The proposal for a new school in Tomelilla includes airy, light spaces with plenty of greenery, and reused materials. Illustration: Wingårdhs

In a small town in Sweden, the local authority is carrying out an unusual experiment.

In 2021 one of the team had been reading an article about the concept of doughnut economics – a circular way of thinking about the way we use resources – and he brought it up. “I just mentioned it casually at a meeting, as a tool to evaluate our new quality of life programme, and it grew from there,” says Stefan Persson, Tomelilla’s organisational development manager.

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