Ocean Hoptimism

How to Tell Ocean Stories Without Killing Hope Another viral headline flashes across your feed: “The ocean is dying.” The clicks pile up,...

What These "Uninvited Guests" Can Teach Us About Ourselves and the Sea It’s time to talk about gulls. Not as thieves. Not as pests. Not...

Why Vulnerability is the Beating Heart of Ocean Hoptimism In a world reeling from climate crisis, biodiversity loss, policy rollbacks,...

Why Ocean Hoptimism Refuses to Let Despair Win Along California’s coast, sea otters once vanished—hunted nearly to extinction for their...

Belonging Builds Movements. Guilt Doesn't. There’s no shortage of reasons to despair about the state of the ocean. Coral bleaching....

How to Recognize Doomscrolling, Protect Your Peace, and Reclaim Hope It starts the same way most nights do. You’re in bed, phone in hand,...

Showing Up for Each Other in Conservation We often think of optimism as a glow: something bright we carry to light the way forward. But...

Interconnected Systems That Protect the Sea—and Us Mangrove forest root systems serve as nurseries for coral reef fish. In human society,...

Why Resilient Optimism is Our Most Powerful Tool for Ocean Action Do we read the news? Oh, we read the news. The gut-punch rollbacks. The...

How to Stay Engaged Without Burning Out Ever notice how one harsh comment seems to stick longer than a dozen kind ones? That’s your...