TERRAFORM: An essay collection about the future of our planet

Six writers explore the future of our world for an online series and print pamphlet.

Quick version:

• Terraform is a new essay collection featuring six writers exploring the future of our planet.

• You can support the project by purchasing the digital or print pamphlet here.

• Join our TERRAFORM literary salon discussion. Paid subscribers can join for free. RSVP here.
  

I’m excited to introduce TERRAFORM, our third cooperative media project for the Elysian Collective this year. This essay collection features six writers and one designer exploring the future of our planet through an online series and print pamphlet.

Over the next five weeks, we’ll publish ten essays for The Elysian. Once we’ve finished publishing the collection online, we’ll publish a digital and print pamphlet using Metalabel. Readers can support the project by collecting the digital or print version for a suggested donation of $5.

After learning from our CITY STATE project, we’ve changed the way we’re pricing this one. “Shipping costs” for the print pamphlet now include all costs associated with printing and shipping the physical product. That way, those costs can be diverted to our distributor, while sales of the digital and print versions are pure profit and can be shared between contributors. There is no longer a free version so that all collectors are paid supporters of the project.

Follow the essay collection

This is one of many cooperative media projects published by The Elysian Collective. Five percent of profits will go to the Elysian Treasury to fund future projects and, as there are 10 essays in this collection plus one designer, the rest will be shared 11 ways. Designed by Jason Arias, this collection features the following essays:

• We can terraform the Earth—not just Mars, by Elle Griffin

• No, we shouldn’t return to the climate of the 18th century, by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

• A self-governing forest, by Elle Griffin

• The future used to be better, by Maarten Boudry

• Is technology actually better than nature? (A review of The Pod Generation), by Elle Griffin

• Participatory science makes everyone a researcher, by Anant Agrawal

• How can we rewild the Earth at scale? by Spencer R. Scott

• We can create an interspecies future, by Elle Griffin

• What is the right amount of nature? (A review of A Psalm for the Wild Built) By Elle Griffin

• Building an Operating System for Earth by stephen marshall

Join the literary salon discussion

This series will publish online in June, with digital and print editions available in July. Then we’ll host a literary salon discussion where we can discuss the project between us. Anyone can attend the discussion for $10 or paid subscribers can join for free.

We’ll meet July 23rd, 3pm-4:30pm Pacific Time. Register below to join us 👇🏻