This is an Open Artifacts project.

What is an Open Artifact?

Think of Open Artifacts as open source for everything humans create, from toys to governments. They give life to our ideas by inviting the community to join us in their development.

Like open-source software, these projects are free to use, adapt, and improve. Cultural Creators, like us, engage with open artifacts as part of our Creative Practice to improve ourselves and to help build a better world.

Visit Evolve The World to learn more about these concepts and how they fit together.

Recommended Reading

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

By Buckminster Fuller

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By Donella H. Meadows

The Men's Group Manual

By Clyde Henry

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

By Seth Godin

Active Hope

By Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston

The Evolving Self

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Infinite Game

By Simon Sinek

The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience

By Toby Hemenway

Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters

By Laurie Ann Thompson

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

By Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein

The Timeless Way of Building

By Christopher Alexander

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

By James P. Carse

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World

By David Deutsch

Resources

Each chapter in the book introduces ideas designed to help you take action toward building a world that works for all life. Here, you’ll find books, websites, and tools that can help you go deeper into those ideas—curated to support your creative practice and your journey into the Great Collaboration.

📘 How This Page Works

Resources are organized by chapter so you can easily explore what interests you most.

We include books, articles, videos, websites, and tools aligned with the principles of evolutionary design, creative practice, systems thinking, and cultural regeneration.

This page will continue to grow as we discover new materials and receive recommendations from the community.

Chapter-by-Chapter Resources

Suggest a Resource

If you know of a book, tool, or article that aligns with the principles in Don’t Save the World, you can suggest it using this form so we can continue building a rich, evolving library for cultural creators everywhere.

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