This section includes links (and brief descriptions) to academic and non-academic sources I personally recommend you to explore. I will update this page erratically.
Non-Academic Sources:
Too Good To Go: This app helps you to decrease food waste, which equals 55 kilogramm per person per year in Germany. According to estimates, half of this food waste is avoidable. Reducing food waste has multiple benefits, you save production resources (land and water), which could be used differently, it reduces green house gas emissions and you save money for yourself. The system of the app works as follows: You order a surprise bag from a place of your choice, and you typically pay around one third of the actual value of the surprise bag. You have to pick up the bag from the store and might discover food you never tried before as you don't know what is in the bag. Yet, you have many stores where you can get vegetarian food, so you don't have to consume meat. However, this is only available in the UK and various continental European countries, so
Today in Focus: This weekdaily podcast by "The Guardian" covers the whole range of topics in an interview-style for about 20 minutes. While the Guardian is independent, it has a reputation for left-leaning tendencies. However, in every episode of the podcast, the journalists try to get responses from organizations or companies they invest critically and talk about their behavior and cite these statements if they were made.
Cool Earth: On this website (and some others) you can donate to reduce deforestation. Forestation has a huge potential to offset our carbon footprint, see Basin et al. (2019). On Cool Earth, you can donate any amount you want, e.g. if you want to offset C02 emissions from travelling, which can be calculated (and also donated for other projects) on Atmosfair. Particularly as someone who travels a lot - due to living abroad, going to conferences and simply going on holidays - I want to donate for something, which is combating the greatest challenge we face as humankind (in my perception). The projects on this website focus a lot on reducing deforestation in developing countries, which are most likely to be hit by climate change (even though industrialized countries are the main emitters). One advantage of focusing on existing forests instead of forestation is that forestation will take at least 50 years to become effective in combating climate change.
Geology: Nature is amazing, and geology is one of the main features on earth we as humans cannot influence at all. Particularly as a social scientist, who cares about actions and reactions of human beings, geology is something that fascinates me simply because it is very different from my research. Different to natural disasters, the outcomes of geological events are mesmerizing to look at.
Academic Sources:
Rethinking Economics (RE): RE provides an overview of different schools of thought within the discipline of ecomomics. Most curricula in European and American universities teach only one school of thought, which limits students to investigate and understand economic phenomena from different perspectives. Besides demanding changes in the curricula of what is being taught in universities, RE also demands for changes how economics is taught. The goal is to go to a teaching system, which requires more qualitative analysis, for example with essay writing, which requires a deeper thinking of the subject than solving all problems with the same mathematical tools. For those who want to learn more about the vision of RE, I recommend reading the book "The Econonocracy: The perils of economics to the experts", which is available on the RE website.