Last updated: January 10th, 2026.
If you are here, we hope to have one intention in common: to cultivate a more liberating relationship with money and economy, rooted in reciprocity and abundance. This library of resources is curated by members of the Abundance Fellowship and our extended collective. It is open for anyone looking to proactively challenge the extractive, competitive and scarcity-driven practices dominating the mainstream economic system.
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Our economic systems have created both incredible innovations and deep structural challenges. We have amazing technology alongside growing inequality, global connections alongside environmental breakdown, and financial growth alongside widespread disconnection from community. Most of us recognise that measuring progress only through GDP growth misses what actually matters for a good life - strong communities, healthy families, stable businesses, a thriving environment.
We've inherited ways of creating wealth that prioritise one form of capital - financial - while treating social, cultural, and natural capital as secondary or invisible. Many knowledge systems around the world understand wealth differently: as reciprocal relationships, as stewardship across generations, as the health of the whole community including the land. Yet our dominant economic models fragment these interconnected forms of value, creating artificial separations between financial success and social impact, short-term gains and long-term stability, individual achievement and collective wellbeing. This fragmentation shows up in the tensions we all navigate - business leaders seeking ways to measure success beyond profit, families working harder but feeling less secure, communities watching traditional ways of wealth-building disappear as resources flow elsewhere.
Economy is supposed to stand for our own sense of home and wellbeing, and for the larger systems of relationships that keep us (and all life on earth) alive and thriving. When economic systems consistently damage the environment, fracture communities, and leave people anxious about the future, it signals that these systems aren't serving their fundamental purpose.
Just as certain pioneering plants can prepare degraded soil for new growth, humans can intentionally rebuild healthier economic relationships and systems, starting with our own understanding and practices around money, value and wealth. This isn't about discarding what works - it's about expanding our approach to match the full complexity of what we need as human beings, in relationship with each other and the living world.
What is economics for anyway?
â... It turns out that answer depends a lot on who you ask. On their website, the American Economic Association says, âItâs the study of scarcity, the study of how people use resources and respond to incentives.â (...) With scarcity as the main principle, the mindset that follows is based on commodification of goods and services.
[Dr. Valerie Luzadis, professor of the US Society for Ecological Economics], prefers the definition that âeconomics is how we organise ourselves to sustain life and enhance its quality. Itâs a way of considering how we provide for ourselves.â
The words âecologyâ and âeconomyâ come from the same root, the Greek oikos, meaning âhomeâ or âhouseholdâ: i.e., the systems of relationship, the goods and services that keep us alive. The system of market economies that weâre given as a default is hardly the only model out there. Anthropologists have observed and shared multiple cultural frameworks coloured by very different worldviews on âhow we provide for ourselves,â including gift economies.â
Source: The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Featured in The Emergence Magazine | Artwork by Studio Airport
In case you donât know where to start exploring this library, here are some of our favourite picks:
The Waterworks of Money | ****Carlijn Kingma, Thomas Bollen, Martijn van der Linden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IszXpzIo_ZQ&t=1292s
Although money plays a key role in our lives, the workings of our monetary system are a mystery to most of us. âThe Waterworks of Moneyâ by cartographer Carlijn Kingma is an attempt to demystify the world of big finance. It visualizes the flow of money through our society, its hidden power made manifest.
**Unlearning Economics** | Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, Kate Raworth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC11UQD9q3w
In this lively discussion, each guest begins by sharing one fundamental aspect of what conventional economic theory gets wrong and how it could be improved in our education system. What areas has (mainstream) economic theory turned a blindspot to as the foundation of our economic systems?
Pluriverse - A Post-Development Dictionary | Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar
This is a collection of over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalised development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.
The Serviceberry - An Economy of Abundance | Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?
3000-year-old solutions to modern problems | a TEDx with Lyla June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5zJxQETl4
In this profoundly hopeful talk, Diné musician, scholar, and cultural historian Lyla June outlines a series of timeless human success stories focusing on Native American food and land management techniques and strategies.
**Boy and the World** | AlĂȘ Abreuâs Academy Award-nominated movie
Brazilian artist AlĂȘ Abreuâs Academy Award-nominated masterpiece is a vibrant cinematic experience that depicts the wonders and struggles of the modern world as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Creating Resilient Wealth With the 8 Forms of Capital
The concept of resilient wealth is best illustrated and understood using the 8 Forms Of Capital, a model originally developed by Ethan Roland of Appleseed Permaculture, as the foundation for creating, preserving and applying wealth in ways that enhance resilience.
**Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition** | Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extremeâbut in the wake of their collapse, we may find a great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
The Economics of Happiness | Going local as a way to repair our fractured world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2kHUKbPogQ
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, governments and big businesses continue to promote globalisation and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people around the world are resisting those policies â and, far from the old institutions of power, theyâre starting to forge a very different future.