Transitional Permaculture
Sustainability & Inclusion Consulting
Transitional Permaculture is a professional consultancy facilitating values-based organizational change. The guidance provided collaboratively builds manageable steps toward cultural, financial, and ecological resilience over time. Organizations can select from three core services:
• Transition Programs that result in organization-wide transformation toward specific goals;
• Interactive Sessions that engage organizations in the visioning of positive change;
• Organizational Assessments that identify impacts and capacity.
These wins deserve to be celebrated and that’s why Transitional Permaculture also tracks progress through the process.
Twenty years of guiding organizational values into practice.
Robyn Wagoner is a sustainability and inclusion consultant who has spent the past two decades helping organizations live up to what they believe — across community land stewardship; climate advocacy; entertainment; collective governance; and both non-profit and private sector diversity initiatives. Transitional Permaculture Sustainability & Inclusion Consultancy is the consolidation of her varied expertise in services that successfully guide values into practice.
Credentials
Master of Environmental Studies, Climate Change,The Evergreen State College
Bachelor of University Studies, Media Psychology, University of New Mexico
Permaculture Design Certification, Divine Earth Gardens
Cultural Competency & Beyond, F.A.C.E. Consulting Collaborative
Relevant Experience
Executive Director, Rio Grande Community Farm
Coordinator, Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities, University of New Mexico
Director of Operations, Rio Grande Building & Storage
Co-Manager, Olympia Food Co-op
• Ecological Planning & Member Relations Committees, Board of Directors
• [Conflict] Resolution Team
Director-at-Large, West Central Park Project
Lead Event Coordinator, Northwest Permaculture Convergence
Owner, Crawford’s Attractions, LLC, Multimedia Production
Owner, Willow River Equine Rescue
Founding Chair, New Mexico Music Awards
Skills
Global Reporting Initiative standards
B Corp / B Impact Assessment National Co-op Grocer’s Coefficient Impact Assessment
Grant Writing
Permaculture Design
Regenerative Agriculture Practices
OSHA Safety Program Development
Cooperative Development
Collective Management
Volunteer Management
Strategic Marketing
Organizational Communication
Research Design
Data Analysis
Conflict Resolution
Restorative Justice
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training
Anti-harassment Training
Consensus Decision-making
Giving & Receiving Feedback
Meeting Facilitation
About the Name
The name reflects ethics and values inspired by The Transition Towns Movement — a grassroots, community-led effort designed to build local resilience. Initiated in 2006 in by Rob Hopkins, the global movement now spans thousands of independent groups across dozens of countries. Every group is shaped by local needs, but all share common goals: cutting fossil fuel use, boosting local economies, and strengthening community connections. The global movement was originally inspired by permaculture design.
Permaculture (permanent + culture) is a practice that unites a ancient and modern wisdom to design sustainable human systems — environmental and social. With reverence for the many Indigenous cultures who developed the earliest techniques, the framework adopts the model of a thriving natural ecosystems.The goal is to move from degraded and exploitative systems of production to sustainable and regenerative alternatives. The term was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.
Transition is Permaculture in Motion
Transition Ethics evolved form the application of Permaculture Ethics at the community scale.
Permaculture Ethics
• Earth Care – Rebuilding and protecting healthy soil, clean water, and rich biodiversity; treating all systems with respect.
• People Care – Meeting human needs for health, safety, resources, connection, creativity, and dignity, sustainably.
• Fair Share – Setting limits on waste and consumption; redistributing the surplus back into the system.
Transition Ethics
• Compassionate Compromises and meeting systems where they currently are instead of demanding instant perfection.
• Implementing Manageable Changes that compound into major cultural or ecological shifts over years.
• Mapping Existing Resource Flows, waste streams, and energy leaks before altering infrastructure.
The gap between what a company’s leadership says they value and how they actually operate doesn’t close by declaration. It closes by observation, by rebuilding trust before adding anything new, and by favoring changes that will take root. Organizations cannot function fully off-grid, produce zero-waste, and build cultural diversity overnight. The Transition Movement champions the permaculture ethic of small, slow solutions, that stabilize, proliferate, and evolve over time.
As a professional consultancy, Transitional Permaculture applies the ethics and principles of its namesake to guide organizations through successful transformation of their social and environmental impacts, operational systems, and work culture. Transitional Permaculture facilitates change in alignment with twelve Permaculture Principles:
Permaculture Principles
• Observe and interact before making changes.
• Catch and store energy for later use.
• Obtain a yield: Ensure designs provide immediate rewards.
• Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
• Use and value renewable resources.
• Produce no waste.
• Design from patterns to details.
• Integrate rather than segregate.
• Use small and slow solutions to make gradual changes.
• Use and value diversity to build system strength.
• Use edges and value the marginal where life is most active.
• Creatively use and respond to change.
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