Ocean Hoptimism

The mother of Colombian corals Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" to help save endangered reefs.

Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" to help save endangered reefs.

How a Bay Area experiment is turning ocean despair into community-powered hope and action.

@deschutesbrewery.bsky.social keeps dropping these psychedelic hop symphonies and we’re just over here like 🍻 one more encore, maestro! This 9% double-dank IPA hits all the right notes. #SymphonicChronic #DoubleDank #HopHeadsUnite #BskyBeer

We’re unreasonably proud of this ridiculous trailer. If it were a real movie, we’d be there opening night: jumbo popcorn in one hand, a $10 pack of Reese’s Pieces in the other, judging ourselves the whole time.

Their Professor made a coconut radio.
Ours brings you fossil data, rafting iguanas & a survival saga straight out of pre-history.
Hop aboard Oct 23… no SS Minnow required. 🦎⛵️
#OceanHoptimism #GilligansIslandVibes

Parade, Bluff Walks, Art Exhibit, Film Screenings, Panel Discussions, Indigenous Food Fair, & more! — North Coast KelpFest! Events throughout the North Coast KelpFest! examines the tenuous condition of the bull kelp forests off of our coast through art, science, food, and film. This year’s fest has something for everyone, ...

The 2nd annual North Coast Kelp Fest is happening this weekend in Mendocino & Fort Bragg, Ca!
Lots of fun activities. #kelpfest #norcal

www.northcoastkelpfest.org/schedule

🐋⚓ #FisheriesFridays Did you know that OPC funding helps protect whales by reducing entanglement risk, while also supporting California’s fisheries through innovation and collaboration?

👉 Learn more: bit.ly/OPC-GEAR

Plant-Based Eating for the OceanWhen we picture “saving the ocean,” most of us think of beach cleanups, recycling, or banning single-use plastic. Those matter, but here’s a truth that’s often overlooked: one of t...

P.S. Want actionable ideas? Check out our thoughts on small weekly diet tweaks that can add-up to help the ocean: www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/plant-b...

A planet-first diet can feed the world by 2050 while improving the environment, new scientific analysis finds | CNN Focusing on a planet-healthy diet can provide nutritious food to the global population while reducing environmental damage, a new EAT-Lancet Commission report says.

The science is clear: a planet-friendly diet could save lives & cut emissions. The US answer? MAHA doubles down on meat, fueled by woo-driven RFK Jr. ideology & feedlot lobbyists, proof our leaders are willing to torch the future to appease both. 🌎🔥
#PlanetaryHealth #PolicyFail #OceanHoptimism

Take Action: Advocate for Bay Recreation - San Francisco Baykeeper Do you regularly hike, bike, kayak, surf, swim, or enjoy other recreational activities around the Bay? We want to hear from you! Our program team is building a network of Bay enthusiasts who can help ...

Do you regularly hike, bike, kayak, surf, swim, or enjoy other recreational activities around SF Bay?

Then we want to hear from you! 👇

The Current We Choose How a Bay Area Experiment is Turning Ocean Despair Into Community-Powered Hope and ActionOpen a news feed and the ocean often appears as a casualty list: bleaching reefs, starving seabirds, heat-drive...

The ocean’s future isn’t just catastrophe headlines. It’s shaped by communities that refuse to give up: one shoreline, one story, one action at a time. 🌊💙 Join us every 4th Thursday @ Faction Brewing in Alameda to bridge despair to action & keep the ocean’s story alive.
#OceanHoptimism

Ocean Hoptimism started as storytelling & is becoming a movement:
⭐ spotlighting local heroes
⭐ turning hope into civic pressure & policy wins
⭐ offering concrete next steps
⭐ holding space for humor, grief & wonder.
#HopeWithTeeth #OceanAction

Month by month the circle grows: activists, divers, coral geneticists, environmental attorneys, artists, students, surfers, poets, beer-lovers… proof that hope is contagious when you can name it & stand beside it.
#BigTentCommunity #OceanHoptimism

Not a networking night, but a commons for the ocean-hearted: part talk-series, part community night, part refuge. A place to listen, learn, laugh, even cry, but never let despair dictate our vision of the future.
#ResilientOptimism #OceanCommunity

So we built something different: a monthly gathering at Faction Brewing. An open, unpretentious third-space where a scientist might share the mic with an artist or fisher, neighbors trading questions over a pint.
#ThirdSpace #OceanHoptimism

We also knew stories alone don’t sustain people. Conferences are pricey, hearings combative, social-media threads exhausting. Networking mixers? Too often just card-swaps, not real camaraderie.
#CommunityForTheOcean #OceanHoptimism

Because awareness alone isn’t enough. Every Ocean Hoptimism talk ends with tangible next steps: volunteer, join a clean-up, sign a petition, support a neighbor’s project… always a way to do the next right thing now.
#HopeIntoAction #OceanHoptimism

We asked a harder one too: once you feel that spark of hope, how do you keep it alive long enough to drive action? How do we leap from “I care” to “Here’s what I’m doing”?
#OceanAction #ResilientOptimism

🌊 Ocean Hoptimism began as a question, not a proclamation:
In a sea of crisis headlines, could we flip the lens to spotlight real people achieving progress, however local, and let their stories of hope breathe?
#OceanHoptimism #HopeWithTeeth

That drumbeat of doom doesn’t just inform; it numbs. Despair is exhausting. Cynicism feels safer than hope, yet no movement survives without the oxygen of belief.
#OceanHope #ResilientOptimism #OceanHoptimism

In the US, once a global leader in science-driven conservation, protections have been rolled back, budgets cut, research sidelined, scientists silenced or removed. The sea’s story is framed as a slow-motion obituary.
#OceanHoptimism #ResilientOceans

The Current We Choose How a Bay Area Experiment is Turning Ocean Despair Into Community-Powered Hope and ActionOpen a news feed and the ocean often appears as a casualty list: bleaching reefs, starving seabirds, heat-drive...

Open the news & the ocean reads like a casualty list: bleaching reefs, starving seabirds, collapsing fisheries, rising seas. Even wins feel fleeting, swept away by the next headline. 🌊
Read our new blog below for the deeper story behind this thread: 👇
#OceanHoptimism #OceanAction

“He always understood the traditions of the beers he brewed like a historian, and that knowledge allowed him to riff in ways that were, like his namesake “simultaneously radical and deeply traditional.”
Beautiful encomium to Upright Brewing: the latest casualty of the times we are in. #BskyBeer

Congrats to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas @mayorq.bsky.social for finding his blue mind paddling the Missouri River! 🚣‍♂️💙 Here’s to leaders who recharge on the water and keep rivers worth paddling. 🌊👏
#BlueMind #RiverTime #OceanHoptimism #MissouriRiver #LeadersWhoPaddle

We could’ve promoted Oct 23’s Ocean Hoptimism talk with scholarly dignity. Instead, we made a horror-trailer spoof: “It Came From The Desert… they drift… they arrive… they SURVIVE.” 🏝️🦎
Meet Dr Scarpetta on Oct 23, 7-8pm, Faction Brewing.
We promise he’s not scary!
#OceanHoptimism

Big thanks to journalist Ariana Bindman for spotlighting Dr. Scarpetta’s epic tale of Fiji’s castaway iguanas: proof science can be as thrilling as any Halloween creature-feature! 🦎🌊
Now save the date and meet Dr Scarpetta, Oct 23, 7-8 PM at #OceanHoptimism.

www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date

YouTube video by TED The fascinating secret lives of giant clams | Mei Lin Neo

Giant clams "walk" by pulling themselves along with a flexible foot, and opening/closing their valves to kind of wobble their way around! In this iconic talk from Mei Lin Neo, perhaps the world's foremost expert on their biology, she shows an awesome timelapse of it! (285) youtu.be/vGX3FA_rQq4?...

Podcast player interface for "Sounds Wild" episode 1 featuring an interview with Tierra Curry. The episode title is "How Is Extinction Changing the World Around Us?" and includes graphics of a stylized pika and sound waves. The logo for the Center for Biological Diversity is visible, promoting this new podcast series.

Did you hear? We just launched our new podcast, Sounds Wild!

Episode 1 is available now and features an interview with our Endangered Species Codirector Tierra Curry. It's called "How Is Extinction Changing the World Around Us?"

Listen here ➡️ bit.ly/4pNp0e5

Thursdays just got wilder. 🦖🦋 The @NHM.org crew is cracking open the vaults every Thursday to show off the jaw-dropping treasures usually hidden behind the scenes. Go see the science that rarely leaves the basement!
#NHMLA #BehindTheScenes #MuseumMagic #ScienceUnboxed #OceanHoptimism

Relatedly, check out our thoughts on the assisted gene flow approach to coral reef conservation:
www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/assiste...
#OceanHoptimism #CoralReefs #Conservation