Nutrition & Ayurveda

• The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies: Based on the Timeless Wisdom of India's 5,000-Year-Old Medical System
• Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Simple Sattvic Recipes
• Moon time: The art of harmony with nature & lunar cycles
• Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
• Cookin' Up a Storm: Sea Stories and Vegan Recipes from Sea Shepherd's Anti-Whaling Campaigns
• The Herbal Manual – Hon Priest Kailash Kay Leonce
• The Yoga of Herbs – An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine
• Textbook of Ayuveda – Fundamental Principles – Vasant Lad.

Foraging for Food

• Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine
• Food For Free – Richard Mabey
• Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
• Ocean Greens: Explore the world of edible seaweeds and sea vegetables
• Eetbare wilde planten, 200 soorten herkennen en gebruiken (Dutch)-  Steffen Guido Fleischhauer

Ocean & sailing Books

• Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do – Wallace J. Nichols
• How to read WATER: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea – Tristan Gooley
• Sea Legs: One Family's Year on the Ocean – Guy Grieve
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• Sailing the Farm: A Survival Guide to Homesteading on the Ocean – Ken Neumeyer
• The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One – Sylvia Earle
• Deep – James Nestor
• Ocean Nomad: the Complete Atlantic Sailing Crew Guide – Catch A Ride & Contribute to a Healthier Ocean ;)

Freediving

• Manual of Freediving
• Deep A book about freediving, renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves.
• Blue Mind – By Wallace. J. Nichols.

Environmentalism & Activism

• The Uninhabitable Eart – David Wallace Wells
• EARTHFORCE!: An Earth Warrior's Guide to Strategy – Paul Watson

Adventure books

• The Beach – Alex Garland
• I am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes
• Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum
• Occupation Circumnavigator: Sailing Around the World – Lars Hässler
• Flirting with mermaids – John Kretschmer
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft – Thor Heyerdahl

Here are a few of my favourite ocean-related documentaries that will surely educate and activate

• Plastic Paradise
• Mission Blue
• Planet Ocean
• A Blue Planet
• The 11th hour
• Sharkwater
• Racing Extinction
• Cowspiracy: the sustainability secret, Before the flood
• Forks over Knives
• A Plastic Ocean
• Sushi: the Global Catch
• Food Inc
• Food Chains

• Earthlings
• Meat the Truth
• Comfortably Unaware
• What the Health
• Fat, Sick, and nearly dead I and II
• Food Matters
• Carnage
• The choice is ours
• Down to Earth
• SeaBlind – the price of shipping our stuff
• The Story of Plastic

Ocean podcasts

• Water People Podcast
• Speak up for Blue
• Ocean Allison

Sustainability podcasts

• Green Connections Radio
• A Sustainable Mind podcast
• The Good Stuff

Personal development podcasts

• TedX– Lessons worth sharing: These are actually little 4-5 videos but you can also just listen to the audio
• Tim Ferris – The guy from the ‘4 Hour Work Week’
• The School of Greatness – Lewis Howes
• Tony Robbins – A superhuman who will get you motivated and into action
• Exponential Wisdom – About increasing abundance & exponential technologies
• The Creative Life podcast – Get creative and listen to interviews with leading creatives and innovators
• The Random Show – Chit-chat with top entrepreneurs and experimenters Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss and Glenn McElhose
• The Happiness Lab