Nomad Earth Catalog is a reader-supported publication, shaped by care, curiosity, and refusal.
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This model allows us to sustain slow editorial labor, critical publishing infrastructure, and the gift of keeping most of our work freely available.
Affiliate links allow us to sustain NEC without paywalls, popups, or performance pressure. They allow resources to circulate with companies covering the cost, not readers.
We disclose this not as an obligation, but as an act of relational transparency. You deserve to know how ecosystems fund themselves.
We only share tools, books, platforms, and objects we use, believe in, or would recommend without compensation. We never link just to sell. We name what we love, and remind you: if you already have what you need, that is enough.
On Amazon
Nomad Earth Catalog participates in the Amazon Associates Program, earning from qualifying purchases.
We include Amazon links only when the item is difficult to source elsewhere, or when it meaningfully supports access for our global readership.
We do so with full acknowledgment: Amazon’s labor practices, ecological footprint, and market dominance raise profound ethical concerns. We do not name this lightly.
Our approach is one of pragmatic tension. When linking to Amazon, it is a compromise made visible, a balancing of NEC’s financial survival and reader access, not an endorsement of systemic harm.
Whenever possible, we prioritize small retailers, independent makers, and ethical companies, even if they offer no commission.
This is an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.
Thank you
If you choose to buy through one of our links, thank you. If you choose to resist consumption altogether, thank you. Both choices nourish the field we are tending.
In all cases: move thoughtfully. Acquire sparingly. Stay sovereign. Carry only what you need.
With care,
The Catalog