# Books, sources of information and teachers that have helped shape our understanding of the world # Peers & Allies Communities of practice we see working on similar issues - ## Tamera Tamera is a peace research village with the goal of becoming "a self-sufficient, sustainable and duplicable communitarian model for nonviolent cooperation and cohabitation between humans, animals, nature, and Creation for a future of peace for all." It is also often called a "healing biotope". - ## Commonweal Today, Commonweal works in three core fields—health and healing, art and education, and environment and justice. - ## Canticle Farms Canticle Farm is an urban farm and educational center, an intentional community, and an experiment in faith-based activism, nonviolence, and restorative justice. - ## Mondragon Corporation The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. - ## Guerilla Translation (DISCO.coop) Guerrilla Translation is a communications collective building an knowledge commons while also providing livelihoods for activist translators, using open value accounting and feminist economic principles. Activists can seldom afford to be activists. - ## Enspiral Enspiral is a network of groups and people, a DIY collective of social enterprises, ventures, and individuals working collaboratively across the world while fulfilling their purpose. - ## Burning Man Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression, radical self-reliance and occurs within a decommodified, market-free context. - ## Aethos A creative guild for the new renaissance. - ## Friends and Lovers A community based in the northeast of the United States centered around long-term friendship. - ## Amah Mutsun Land Trust From archaeological and fire research to educational gardens, the Amah Mutsun Land Trust is bringing indigenous stewardship back to the lands of the Amah Mutsun. - ## The Sogorea Te Land Trust The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship. - ## Cultural Evolution Center The Center for Applied Cultural Evolution was created to help communities guide their own social change efforts using integrated social science tools and frameworks. - ## DAOstack DAOstack is designed to catalyze the future of collaboration. It's a platform for decentralized governance that enables collectives to self-organize around shared goals or values, easily and efficiently. - ## Game B A community gathering around a better future referred to as **Game B**. - ## Digital Life Collective The Digital Life Collective researches, develops, funds and supports Tech We Trust: technologies that prioritize our autonomy, privacy and dignity. - ## Earth Nation The Earth Nation is an International Society of positive change organizations and people that are dedicated to finding, developing, and implementing solutions for every major challenge the human race deals with today. - ## Esalen The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The Institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s. - ## Impact Hub Impact Hub is a community centre headquartered in Vienna Austria that aims to foster entrepreneurship, idea incubation, business development and offers co-working spaces. - ## International Bateson Institute The International Bateson Institute is a non-profit research and educational organization focused on exploring possible solutions to some of our most pressing problems through approaches to research that are consistent with the nature of complex systems. - ## Ouishare Ouishare is an international network of freelancers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. - ## Regen Network Regen Network is a global marketplace and contracting platform for Earth's ecosystem assets, services, and data. - ## Transformation Agency On a mission to empower today’s leaders with tomorrow’s social technologies, to accelerate a positive paradigm shift worldwide. - ## Odyssey ODYSSEY is a co-creative visionary incubator for the new companies, brands, infrastructure, identities and narratives that we require as support in our desired evolution. # Reading list This is an incomplete list of some of the books we’ve read that are important to our work. If you know of books that we should read in order to do our best work, please send your recommendations to info@terran.io # Articles and Posts Here are some important digital-form writings that we think you would benefit from reading. - [**New Economics Series: Part I** by Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://civilizationemerging.com/new-economics-series-part-i/) - [**Meditations on Moloch** by Scott Alexander](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/) - [**Sensemaking in Organizations Pt. 1** by Bonnitta Roy](https://medium.com/agile-sensemaking/sensemaking-in-organizations-pt-1-e79c4aaf63ca) - [**Enspiral Handbook** Enspiral](https://handbook.enspiral.com/) - [**Salmon Nation: People. Place. An Invitation** Salmon Nation](https://medium.com/@salmonnation/salmon-nation-a-place-and-an-idea-1f18e4776362) - [**If I Only Had a Heart: A DisCO Manifesto** DISCO.coop](https://www.tni.org/files/profiles-downloads/disco_manifesto_v.1.pdf) # Podcasts # Authors, Leaders, Artists and Teachers These are people whose work has in some way deeply informed our collective understanding of the world. - [**Adrienne Maree Brown** Author, Activist, Artist](http://adriennemareebrown.net/) - [**Bill Plotkin** Cultural Visionary, Wilderness Guide](https://animas.org/about-us/our-founder/) - [**Bonnitta Roy** Author, Teacher](https://medium.com/@bonnittaroy) - [**Buckminster Fuller** Philosopher, Inventor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller) - [**Casey Cripe** Artist](http://www.caseycripe.com/) - [**Charles Eisenstein** Author](https://charleseisenstein.org/) - [**Daniel Christian Wahl** Author, Biologist](https://medium.com/@designforsustainability) - [**Daniel Kahneman** Professor, Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman) - [**Daniel Quinn** Author, Cultural Critic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn) - [**Daniel Schmachtenberger** Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker](https://civilizationemerging.com/about/) - [**David Abram** Philosopher, Ecologist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Abram) - [**Donella Meadows** Environmental Scientist, Teacher, Writer](http://donellameadows.org/) - [**Douglas Hofstadter** Professor, Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter) - [**Douglas Rushkoff** Author, Teacher, Speaker](https://rushkoff.com/) - [**Eda Zavala Lopez** Healer, Wisdom Keeper](http://www.edazavalalopez.com/) - [**Elinor Ostrom** Political Scientist, Economist, Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom) - [**EO Wilson** Biologist, Naturalist, Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson) - [**Forrest Landry** Transcendental Designer, Author](http://ronininstitute.org/research-scholars/forrest-landry/) - [**Fyodor Dostoevsky** Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky) - [**Gary Snyder** Poet, Bioregionalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder) - [**Hanzi Freinacht** Author](https://twitter.com/hfreinacht) - [**Herman Hesse** Poet, Novelist, Painter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse) - [**Hunter Lovins** Environmentalist, Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Lovins) - [**Janine Benyus** Biologist, Author](https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/) - [**Joanna Macy** Author, Teacher](https://www.joannamacy.net/) - [**Joe Brewer** Author, Teacher](https://medium.com/@joe_brewer) - [**Jonathon Miller Weisberger** Ethnobotanist, Healer, Author](https://rainforestmedicine.net/about-jonathon-miller-weisberger/) - [**Jordan Hall** Entrepreneur, Author](https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall) - [**Ken Wilber** Philosopher, Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber) - [**Kim Stanley Robinson** Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson) - [**Lao Tzu** Philosopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi) - [**Mark Henson** Artist](https://www.markhensonart.com/) - [**Martin Prechtel** Author, Musician, Artist, Educator](https://www.martinprechtel.com/) - [**Octavia Butler** Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler) - [**Paul Stamets** Mycologist, Speaker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets) - [**Peter Berg** Writer, Bioregionalist](https://www.planetdrum.org/) - [**Robin Wall Kimmerer** Wisdom Keeper, Ecologist, Writer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer) - [**Starhawk** Author, Teacher, Activist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk) - [**Tom Robbins** Author, Novelist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins) - [**Ursula K. Le Guin** Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin)