# Whole Earth: Access to Tools, Systems Literacy, and Planetary Consciousness > [!summary] Collection status: Pending > This collection is reserved for the next project. It will organize the [[wiki/Whole Earth Catalog|Whole Earth Catalog]], [[wiki/Whole Earth|whole-Earth perspective]], [[wiki/Access to Tools|access to tools]], systems ecology, personal computing, planetary consciousness, long-horizon institutions, and the intellectual lineage that later reaches [[wiki/Edge.org|Edge.org]]. ## Starting points - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] — the current gateway connecting the 1969 Whole Earth moment, ecological-technological renaissance, planetary imagery, tool access, and Edge's later networked conversation. - [[wiki/Whole Earth Catalog|Whole Earth Catalog]] — the publication and interface through which a distributed tool ecology became browsable. - [[wiki/Whole Earth|Whole Earth]] — the planetary image and systems perspective. - [[wiki/Stewart Brand|Stewart Brand]] — editor, organizer, and institutional bridge. - [[wiki/Access to Tools|Access to Tools]] — the collection's governing practical principle. - [[wiki/Earthrise|Earthrise]] — the visual threshold that made planetary interdependence culturally immediate. - [[wiki/Long Now Foundation|Long Now Foundation]] and [[wiki/Long Now|Long Now]] — the long-horizon institutional continuation. - [[collections/Edge|Edge]] — the later move from an interface to tools toward an interface to scientific minds and frontier questions. ## Planned development The next pass should inventory Whole Earth editions, contributors, reviewed books and technologies, institutions, ecological and computational concepts, archival sources, and the routes by which the Catalog influenced personal computing and network culture. This placeholder does not yet claim complete coverage of that record. ## Relationships - **Publication:** [[wiki/Whole Earth Catalog|Whole Earth Catalog]] is the collection's primary historical source-work. - **Founder and editor:** [[wiki/Stewart Brand|Stewart Brand]] connects the Catalog to later projects in network culture, preservation, and long-term thinking. - **Planetary frame:** [[wiki/Whole Earth|Whole Earth]], [[wiki/Earthrise|Earthrise]], and [[wiki/Planetary Consciousness|Planetary Consciousness]] establish the visual and ecological context. - **Operating principle:** [[wiki/Access to Tools|Access to Tools]] connects information architecture to practical individual agency. - **Later intellectual network:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] is treated as a related but distinct continuation, not as the same organization or project. ## Sources and provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] - [The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog](https://longnow.org/ideas/the-lasting-whole-earth-catalog/) - [Spring 1969 Whole Earth Catalog](https://archive.org/details/sim_whole-earth-catalog_whole-earth-catalog_spring-1969)