Ocean HoptimismFiction only becomes future if we let it. Our new piece in The Revelator imagines a not-too-distant future we can still avoid — if we choose differently now. Read it, share it, and help bend the plot to a more hopeful narrative.
#OceanHoptimism #COP30
In just 8 days, Ocean Hoptimism sets sail with Dr. Simon Scarpetta! 🌊
Join us for Floating to Fiji: The Trans-Pacific Voyage of Iguanas — the wild true story of how a few resilient lizards rafted over 5,000 miles of open ocean to start a brand-new species. 🦎
Join us on October 23, 7-8pm, at Faction Breing, Alameda.
#OceanHoptimism #CreatureFeature
Join us for Floating to Fiji: The Trans-Pacific Voyage of Iguanas — the wild true story of how a few resilient lizards rafted over 5,000 miles of open ocean to start a brand-new species. 🦎
Join us on October 23, 7-8pm, at Faction Breing, Alameda.
#OceanHoptimism #CreatureFeature
This week, 160 scientists confirmed what many in coral conservation have dreaded: 🌊 global reefs have crossed a tipping point. Warming is driving irreversible change across 84% of reef regions.
At Ocean Hoptimism, we face that truth head-on: where grief, science, and action meet. Not to deny collapse, but to refuse surrender.
Read our latest essay:
👉 https://www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/after-the-bleaching
After the Bleaching
“Hope with teeth” is not a comfort mantra; it’s a discipline of clear seeing and sustained action. A kind of emotional triage. We grieve what’s gone, stabilize what’s wounded, and mobilize everyone who still has a pulse. Because the opposite of hope isn’t hopelessness, it’s indifference. And indifference is how tipping points become tombstones.
More spooky season-themed promos? We got you!
🎈“They all float…” 🤡 but not all on red balloons: some on storm-torn trees. 🦎🌊
Join us Oct 23 at Ocean Hoptimism to hear how iguanas rafted 5,000 miles to Fiji.
7–8 pm • Faction Brewing • Alameda
Creature-feature science you can’t miss!
#TheyAllFloat #OceanHoptimism #RaftingReptiles
A recent Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates exchange on what’s worth persuading over sparked our latest blog post. Some things, like catch quotas or harbor fees, are negotiable. But a living ocean & the dignity of those who depend on it? Not up for debate. 🌊
Full post here👇
#OceanEthic #OceanHoptimism
https://www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/not-everything-is-up-for-debate
Not Everything Is Up for Debate
Toward a Coates-Framed Ocean EthicA recent podcast conversation between journalist Ezra Klein and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates began with the promise of real exchange and then slid off the rails. The tone stayed civil but flint-struck; they kept circling the same ridge without ever landing on the same ledge.What jarred was not simply disagreement but dissonance: Klein, a white liberal host, kept asking a Black man to contemplate how he might reason with those who deny his very humanity; as if the bur
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.
#OceanHoptimism #Conservation
Meet Dr Scarpetta on Oct 23, 7-8pm, Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #Conservation
San Francisco BaykeeperJoin us for a fun-filled hour of hope, beer, and big Bay wins with our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh on 8/28 -- hosted by Ocean Hoptimism at Faction Brewing in #Alameda 🍻
Registration is free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ocean-hoptimism-w-san-francisco-baykeepers-sejal-choksi-chugh-tickets-1538271604779
#alamedaca #bayarea #bayareaevents #baykeeper #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #factionbrewing #hoptimism #oceanhoptimism
We’re gonna need a bigger… pint. Sea. Stories. Suds. That’s the vibe. Join us every 4th Thursday at Faction Brewing for pints, purpose, and the hope we need for the ocean we love.
#OceanHoptimism #SeaStoriesSuds #FactionBrewing #OptimismOnTap
