Uniting ocean enthusiasts over a pint! Ocean Hoptimism is a monthly gathering of ocean conservation, science, exploration, art, recreation, policy, & beer enthusiasts in SF Bay Area. Pint-sized hope for a brighter ocean future!
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"Now I’m in my 60s. There are more years behind me than ahead. This is supposed to be the part where you take a breath. Where you look around and see what endured. Where you enjoy, at least in part, the world you helped fight into being.
Instead I’m watching something else."
A hard piece to write.
Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry news.mongabay.com/2026/06/expe...
As we look back on Ocean Hoptimism’s first year, we remember December’s guest speaker, Andres Amador, whose vast beachscape artworks transform sand, tide, and time into something unforgettable. His work reminds us that awe is not separate from conservation—it is often where caring begins. 🌊🎨✨
Pride is often celebrated as progress.
But progress has a memory.
The Great Forgetting, a new piece in @therevelator.org, examines what happens when civil rights history, environmental history, and the voices behind both are softened, narrowed, or erased.
This Pride Month, memory matters.
It’s World Ocean Day. 🌊
The ocean has given many of us joy, healing, perspective, friendship, and purpose.
Today, we celebrate the water that connects us—and the people working every day to protect it. Thank you for being part of that story.
#WorldOceanDay #OceanHoptimism
🚨 A magnitude 8.2 earthquake off the Philippines has prompted tsunami evaluations across the Pacific. Hawaiʻi officials are assessing potential impacts while coastal communities monitor conditions. If you’re in affected regions, follow guidance from local emergency managers. 🌊⚠️
YOU’RE FREE. 🌈🌊
Free to explore. Free to belong. Free to show up as your authentic self.
Join Niko Kowell, founder of Narwhal Divers, for a conversation about ensuring LGBTQ+ people can access the ocean w/out hiding who they are.
📍 Faction Brewing, Alameda
📅 June 25
🕖 7 PM
The ocean is for all.
One of the hardest parts of getting older is realizing how many relationships depended on you doing all the emotional work. That’s why communities matter. Ocean Hoptimism exists to help create new ones. If you’re feeling disconnected, pull up a chair. We’re saving you a seat. www.oceanhoptimism.org
A powerful, must-read essay we published today:
As we look back on Ocean Hoptimism’s first year, we remember Liz Taylor of DOER Marine, who took us from SF Bay to the deep ocean. Through submersibles, robotics, and engineering built for exploration, she showed how curiosity and innovation help reveal a world few humans will ever see. 🌊🤖⚙️
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This is part 2 of a two-part series examining the U.S.’s efforts to begin deep-sea mining in federal waters. Part 2 examines the regulations that would govern the industry. Part 1 explored the process...
A tsunami threat to Hawaii is being evaluated this afternoon after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit Mindanao in the Philippines, according to the Oahu Department of Emergency Management.
Why friendships fade with age and what psychology reveals about loneliness, imbalance, and emotional effort
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Last night, Andres Amador shared his journey “From Nihilist to Activist”—from growing up amid SF Mission murals, to Peace Corps work in Ecuador, to a Burning Man epiphany that led him to draw at the tide line, where art meets ocean—then invited us fully inside his creative process.
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The Great Forgetting -- How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased. #PrideMonth https://therevelator.org/the-great-forgetting/
Last night’s #OceanHoptimism was so much fun. Liz Taylor kicked us off by celebrating our own SF Bay Hope Spot—highlighting seagrass restoration gains and the Wild Oyster Project’s gritty, local magic. Proof that recovery is already happening right here in our backyard. Come be a part of it!
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How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
