
PERMACULTURE
BUSINESS ETHICS & PRINCIPLES
Ethics
1. Always serve the Super Client (Earth) first
2. Cooperation, not competition
3. Disseminate permaculture
Principles
1. Start modestly and gain experience
2. Fulfill your role, not the roles of others
3. Produce only things which fulfill multiple functions
4. Invite feedback and inquiry/Share second thoughts
5. Create regional support communities and resource networks
6. Seek the best, most appropriate energy paths, utilizing appropriate energy
7. Everything is a resource, but use what you have.
8. Refer to existing knowledge, always explain rationale
9. Know your client as an individual, intimately
10. Divest yourself of surplus resources
11. Use and Value Diversity
“We can take a permaculture approach in any [reasonable) job or profession but to jump to the conclusion that permaculture IS a job, career or profession is false.” – David Holmgren 1993
by Aaron Armstrong, Aug. 20, 2017
Presented at the Northwest Permaculture Convergence on October 1st, 2017