Like what you're reading and want to support Nomad Earth Catalog?
We’re deeply grateful for our reflective, generous, and quietly growing readership. These guidelines are a way for those who feel nourished by our work to help sustain it, if they feel called. For those who have the means and want to help us remain strange, slow, and stubbornly non-optimized.
NEC remains mostly free to access, because we believe in open knowledge, slow discovery, and publishing as public practice. That said, creating and maintaining this space takes time, care, and resources. Hosting, editing, research, design, and infrastructure aren’t invisible to us, so we’re naming them here.
In order to be able to offer over 90% of our content for free, we’ve chosen a model rooted in carefully selected affiliate relationships in brands we believe in, paid products, and occasional contributions, where our readers remain our compass, not our commodity.
Here’s how you can support NEC:
Route your purchases through our affiliate links
If you're booking travel, buying gear, or making a related purchase, you can use one of our affiliate links. These are the same links you’d use to purchase directly, except we receive a small commission, at no extra cost to you. Some links even include discounts.
We’ve gathered them here, and bookmarking this page helps more than you might think. Whether it’s a booking platform or a tool you already planned to buy, your choice to route that purchase through us makes a difference.
We don’t promote things we don’t believe in. Every recommendation you’ll see is something we’d share even without a commission. And we’ll always remind you: more gear is not better gear. If you already have what you need, bless that, too.
This model allows us to stay independent while letting larger companies, not readers, cover more of the cost. A small, quiet redistribution.
Share our work
If something here resonated, let it cross-pollinate. Share a post or image with someone who might carry it further across disciplines, inboxes, friend circles, or study groups.
We especially appreciate shares on Pinterest, where visual thought thrives beyond the feed, and Are.na, where knowledge moves rhizomatically.
But the most meaningful transmissions are still personal: a quiet forward, a whispered recommendation, a shared moment in conversation.
Forward our emails
If one of our Slow Signals emails stirred something in you, consider forwarding it to someone else who might benefit from it. One thoughtful reader often leads to another.
Consider buying one of our paid products
Our products are aesthetic, ethical, and conceptual extensions of our ethos. They are crafted with care, and designed to be useful.
Whether you buy something for yourself or gift it to someone else, your support helps keep this project alive and evolving.
Make a one-off contribution
A single contribution, given in your own time, helps sustain the Catalog’s slow publishing and ongoing care.
Every contribution, small or large, is a gesture of trust that allows us to keep creating freely.
Thanks for being here
We know not everyone can or wants to support us financially. That’s okay. The most important support is your attention: your choice to read slowly, to think critically, and to come back.
Thank you, truly, to everyone who has supported NEC, quietly, generously, or simply by listening.
We’re here because you are.
