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. 🌊🎨✨
As we look back at the voices that shaped Ocean Hoptimism’s 1st year, January brought us Adam Ratner & a reminder that every rescued seal or sea lion tells a bigger story about ocean health. Through compassion, science, & action, he showed how caring for wildlife helps us care for the ocean itself.
The Cal Academy story is a reminder that mission alone isn’t enough. Even beloved institutions can drift when accountability weakens, staff trust erodes, and leadership loses touch with the people doing the work. Culture is infrastructure. Ignore it long enough and cracks become fault lines.
"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.
A powerful, must-read essay we published today:
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
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
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.
Join Ocean Hoptimism on June 25 as we celebrate our 1st birthday & Pride Month w/ Niko Kowell of Narwhal Divers for an evening about belonging, adventure, and ensuring everyone can experience the ocean as their authentic selves.
Come for the inspiration. Stay for the community. Eat some cake. 🌊🎂🌈🍺
Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry news.mongabay.com/2026/06/expe...
Why friendships fade with age and what psychology reveals about loneliness, imbalance, and emotional effort
“Silence is not neutrality—it is participation in the outcome.”
New commentary in @therevelator.org examines how history is rarely erased all at once. More often, it fades through omission, caution, and the narrowing of whose stories are allowed to remain visible. Memory matters.
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
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...
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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How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
The Great Forgetting -- How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased. #PrideMonth https://therevelator.org/the-great-forgetting/
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
For years, insiders sounded the alarm about mismanagement. Now, after mass layoffs, a ballooning deficit, and a director’s resignation, one of San Francisco’s crown jewels is fighting for its life.
Last night’s Ocean Hoptimism with Adam Ratner (The Marine Mammal Center) was nearly a full house—and for good reason. Adam took us behind the scenes with real patient case studies across multiple species, showing how rescue, science, and care intersect when the ocean shows up at the doorstep. 🦭💙
