Kevin Bayuk works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets cooperative organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life. He is a partner with LIFT Economy where he provides strategy and technical support for social enterprises helping them grow. Kevin also works with impact investors identifying organizations creating the highest leverage beneficial impact for all life. He has developed internal and external beneficial impact strategies for market leaders in regenerative agriculture, compostable goods, energy efficiency and socially beneficent technology service providers. Kevin also serves as the Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown developing the business case to address climate change through existing practices and technologies.

Kevin also frequently teaches classes, workshops, does public speaking, facilitates meetings, plans events and provides one on one mentoring as a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute San Francisco. Kevin has helped design and start food security gardens and public learning experiences intent on reminding people that we,too, are nature. He is as fluent with information technology as with perennial polyculture agroforestry. Writing, speaking, researching and mentoring are his strongest skills. Kevin has worked with schools, farms, market gardens, community non-profit organizations and community gardens.

Direct discussion and learning to take your ethical regenerative enterprise aspirations into reality or further towards your vision.

This workshop is for individuals with an idea for a regenerative enterprise, a nascent venture or even just the intention to someday start your own enterprise. We will work directly with examples brought by participants to provide technical support on how to move forward to grow your enterprise to a self-sustaining vocational pathway providing right-livelihood for you and your community. We’ll use regenerative enterprise pattern literacy to build off of the specific examples to general principles (such as cooperative ownership and decision-making structures, community financing methods, self-managing teams, etc) that all can use and create space for individual exercises and small group discussion.

We encounter many permaculture designers and enthusiasts that would like to be generating their livelihood and meeting their needs through an enterprise bounded by the permaculture ethics and informed by permaculture design. Participants in this workshop will receive insights, references and resources and tangible next steps in the development of their enterprise vision. This topic is, in a sense, about building bridges between participants’ passion for permaculture and their income/livelihood strategies. Having more people generating their livelihood by providing needed goods and services in alignment with permaculture ethics and principles will help grow the movement by enabling more people to participate and not feel torn between their interest in permaculture and their ‘job.’

Presented By: Kevin Bayuk and Shawn Berry