Ocean Hoptimism
@oceanhoptimism.org
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!
www.oceanhoptimism.org
www.oceanhoptimism.org
Join us 7-8pm on Dec 18 at Faction Brewing and meet @andresamadorarts.bsky.social, an artist who transforms awe into action.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Join us 7-8pm on Dec 18 at Faction Brewing and meet @andresamadorarts.bsky.social, an artist who transforms awe into action.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
“Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.”
Oof. That lands.
At #OceanHoptimism, we reject the comfort of despair. Showing up for the ocean is work—messy, tiring, imperfect work. And still: we’ll do it again. And again. And again.
Because hope isn’t passive. It’s a practice.
#Hope 🌊
Oof. That lands.
At #OceanHoptimism, we reject the comfort of despair. Showing up for the ocean is work—messy, tiring, imperfect work. And still: we’ll do it again. And again. And again.
Because hope isn’t passive. It’s a practice.
#Hope 🌊
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.”
Oof. That lands.
At #OceanHoptimism, we reject the comfort of despair. Showing up for the ocean is work—messy, tiring, imperfect work. And still: we’ll do it again. And again. And again.
Because hope isn’t passive. It’s a practice.
#Hope 🌊
Oof. That lands.
At #OceanHoptimism, we reject the comfort of despair. Showing up for the ocean is work—messy, tiring, imperfect work. And still: we’ll do it again. And again. And again.
Because hope isn’t passive. It’s a practice.
#Hope 🌊
December’s Ocean Hoptimism closes out 2025 with something special: an artist who turns beaches into living canvases and tide cycles into lessons on connection. 🌊✨
On Dec 18, we welcome earthscape artist and visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
FREE and open to all!
Join us!
#OceanHoptimism
On Dec 18, we welcome earthscape artist and visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
FREE and open to all!
Join us!
#OceanHoptimism
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
December’s Ocean Hoptimism closes out 2025 with something special: an artist who turns beaches into living canvases and tide cycles into lessons on connection. 🌊✨
On Dec 18, we welcome earthscape artist and visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
FREE and open to all!
Join us!
#OceanHoptimism
On Dec 18, we welcome earthscape artist and visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
FREE and open to all!
Join us!
#OceanHoptimism
In 18 days, we’re back at Faction Brewing—one week earlier than usual thanks to Christmas creep—for a night of tidal geometry, big-tent creativity, and end-of-year reflection. Let Andres Amador’s Earthscape artwork reset your compass.
🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #BayAreaArts #SandArt
🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #BayAreaArts #SandArt
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In 18 days, we’re back at Faction Brewing—one week earlier than usual thanks to Christmas creep—for a night of tidal geometry, big-tent creativity, and end-of-year reflection. Let Andres Amador’s Earthscape artwork reset your compass.
🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #BayAreaArts #SandArt
🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #BayAreaArts #SandArt
The Caribbean monk seal is gone—not forgotten. A warm-eyed sentinel of the reefs, silenced by our haste. On Remembrance Day for Lost Species, we honor what we’ve lost and fight harder for what still has a chance.
www.lostspeciesday.org
#OceanHoptimism
www.lostspeciesday.org
#OceanHoptimism
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Caribbean monk seal is gone—not forgotten. A warm-eyed sentinel of the reefs, silenced by our haste. On Remembrance Day for Lost Species, we honor what we’ve lost and fight harder for what still has a chance.
www.lostspeciesday.org
#OceanHoptimism
www.lostspeciesday.org
#OceanHoptimism
Coming one week earlier because Christmas stole our parking spot and our usual Thursday.
Join us Dec 18 for earth-artist Andres Amador and an end-of-year Ocean Hoptimism splash of joy, hope, and good vibes. 🌊🍻
Same spirit, just… slightly time-shifted.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
Join us Dec 18 for earth-artist Andres Amador and an end-of-year Ocean Hoptimism splash of joy, hope, and good vibes. 🌊🍻
Same spirit, just… slightly time-shifted.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Coming one week earlier because Christmas stole our parking spot and our usual Thursday.
Join us Dec 18 for earth-artist Andres Amador and an end-of-year Ocean Hoptimism splash of joy, hope, and good vibes. 🌊🍻
Same spirit, just… slightly time-shifted.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
Join us Dec 18 for earth-artist Andres Amador and an end-of-year Ocean Hoptimism splash of joy, hope, and good vibes. 🌊🍻
Same spirit, just… slightly time-shifted.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
December’s Ocean Hoptimism closes out 2025 with something special: an artist who turns beaches into living canvases and tide cycles into lessons on connection. 🌊✨
On Dec 18, we welcome earth-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
On Dec 18, we welcome earth-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
December’s Ocean Hoptimism closes out 2025 with something special: an artist who turns beaches into living canvases and tide cycles into lessons on connection. 🌊✨
On Dec 18, we welcome earth-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
On Dec 18, we welcome earth-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
Grateful today for this growing, passionate Ocean Hoptimism community: people who turn wonder into action, conversations into momentum, and hope into something we can feel. Thank you for showing up for the ocean and each other. 🌊💙
#OceanHoptimism #Gratitude
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#OceanHoptimism #Gratitude
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November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Grateful today for this growing, passionate Ocean Hoptimism community: people who turn wonder into action, conversations into momentum, and hope into something we can feel. Thank you for showing up for the ocean and each other. 🌊💙
#OceanHoptimism #Gratitude
www.oceanhoptimism.org
#OceanHoptimism #Gratitude
www.oceanhoptimism.org
Prepare to lose yourself—and find yourself—in the massive earthscape art of Andres Amador on Dec 18 at Ocean Hoptimism. Join us to end 2025 with purpose and intention. #OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador #OceanArt
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Prepare to lose yourself—and find yourself—in the massive earthscape art of Andres Amador on Dec 18 at Ocean Hoptimism. Join us to end 2025 with purpose and intention. #OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador #OceanArt
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
From Nihilist to Activist 🌊✨🌀
Join us Dec 18 as Earth artist Andres Amador shows how impermanence, tide, and creativity can spark connection & hope.
One night. Big art. Big perspective.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
Join us Dec 18 as Earth artist Andres Amador shows how impermanence, tide, and creativity can spark connection & hope.
One night. Big art. Big perspective.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
From Nihilist to Activist 🌊✨🌀
Join us Dec 18 as Earth artist Andres Amador shows how impermanence, tide, and creativity can spark connection & hope.
One night. Big art. Big perspective.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
Join us Dec 18 as Earth artist Andres Amador shows how impermanence, tide, and creativity can spark connection & hope.
One night. Big art. Big perspective.
www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
Join us Dec 18, 7–8pm, at Faction Brewing for an end-of-year gathering built for reflection, creativity, and ocean-forward hope. Bring friends, bring openness, bring that “what’s the next step?” energy.
This is art that asks you to feel the coastline anew. 🌊🍻🌀
#OceanHoptimism
This is art that asks you to feel the coastline anew. 🌊🍻🌀
#OceanHoptimism
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Join us Dec 18, 7–8pm, at Faction Brewing for an end-of-year gathering built for reflection, creativity, and ocean-forward hope. Bring friends, bring openness, bring that “what’s the next step?” energy.
This is art that asks you to feel the coastline anew. 🌊🍻🌀
#OceanHoptimism
This is art that asks you to feel the coastline anew. 🌊🍻🌀
#OceanHoptimism
Raised amid SF’s activist murals and shaped by conservation work from Ecuador to the California coast, Andres brings a perspective that is grounded, expansive, and deeply human. His search for meaning became a practice rooted in environmental care.
#AndresAmador
#AndresAmador
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Raised amid SF’s activist murals and shaped by conservation work from Ecuador to the California coast, Andres brings a perspective that is grounded, expansive, and deeply human. His search for meaning became a practice rooted in environmental care.
#AndresAmador
#AndresAmador
Amador’s art is collaboration: sand, tide, light… and whoever shows up with curiosity. His pieces invite us to slow down, listen to place, and remember that belonging isn’t abstract—it’s shaped one step, one rake mark, one tide line at a time.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Amador’s art is collaboration: sand, tide, light… and whoever shows up with curiosity. His pieces invite us to slow down, listen to place, and remember that belonging isn’t abstract—it’s shaped one step, one rake mark, one tide line at a time.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
If you’ve ever seen a beach transformed into sweeping geometric patterns visible only from the cliffs or sky—that’s Andres. 🌀 His work appears for moments, disappears with the tide, and somehow stays with you long after. Impermanence as insight.
#AndresAmador
#AndresAmador
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you’ve ever seen a beach transformed into sweeping geometric patterns visible only from the cliffs or sky—that’s Andres. 🌀 His work appears for moments, disappears with the tide, and somehow stays with you long after. Impermanence as insight.
#AndresAmador
#AndresAmador
December’s Ocean Hoptimism closes out 2025 with something special: an artist who turns beaches into living canvases and tide cycles into lessons on connection. 🌊✨
On Dec 18, we welcome land-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
On Dec 18, we welcome land-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
December’s Ocean Hoptimism closes out 2025 with something special: an artist who turns beaches into living canvases and tide cycles into lessons on connection. 🌊✨
On Dec 18, we welcome land-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
On Dec 18, we welcome land-art visionary Andres Amador to Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #AndresAmador
We’re sliding into Dec 18 with Ocean Hoptimism a week ahead of schedule, and a guest whose art lives for one tide cycle but stays with people for years.
Come watch inspiration rise and fall with the shoreline. 🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #December #GuessWho
Come watch inspiration rise and fall with the shoreline. 🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #December #GuessWho
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We’re sliding into Dec 18 with Ocean Hoptimism a week ahead of schedule, and a guest whose art lives for one tide cycle but stays with people for years.
Come watch inspiration rise and fall with the shoreline. 🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #December #GuessWho
Come watch inspiration rise and fall with the shoreline. 🌊✨
#OceanHoptimism #December #GuessWho
Ocean Hoptimism jumps ahead a week earlier once again—Dec 18—to dodge the holiday chaos and deliver a December surprise.
We won’t tell you who’s speaking yet… but you’ll definitely be talking about it afterward. For now, just this clue.
#OceanHoptimism #DecemberSurprise
We won’t tell you who’s speaking yet… but you’ll definitely be talking about it afterward. For now, just this clue.
#OceanHoptimism #DecemberSurprise
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ocean Hoptimism jumps ahead a week earlier once again—Dec 18—to dodge the holiday chaos and deliver a December surprise.
We won’t tell you who’s speaking yet… but you’ll definitely be talking about it afterward. For now, just this clue.
#OceanHoptimism #DecemberSurprise
We won’t tell you who’s speaking yet… but you’ll definitely be talking about it afterward. For now, just this clue.
#OceanHoptimism #DecemberSurprise
Spread some holiday cheer and protect SF Bay! Grab these special greeting cards (illustrated by Bay Area artists) benefiting our friends at @sfbaykeeper.bsky.social —100% of proceeds support their work defending the Bay. A little card, a lot of impact. 🎁
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November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Spread some holiday cheer and protect SF Bay! Grab these special greeting cards (illustrated by Bay Area artists) benefiting our friends at @sfbaykeeper.bsky.social —100% of proceeds support their work defending the Bay. A little card, a lot of impact. 🎁
cardsagainstclimatechange.org/shop-to-donate
cardsagainstclimatechange.org/shop-to-donate
The shark teeth in those nodules weren’t meant to be mined. They were meant to be reminders.
The deep sea doesn’t need more extraction.
It needs witnesses.
It needs restraint.
It needs us to decide that progress doesn’t have to begin with a wound.
#OceanHoptimism #DeepSea #YourPhoneCanWait
The deep sea doesn’t need more extraction.
It needs witnesses.
It needs restraint.
It needs us to decide that progress doesn’t have to begin with a wound.
#OceanHoptimism #DeepSea #YourPhoneCanWait
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The shark teeth in those nodules weren’t meant to be mined. They were meant to be reminders.
The deep sea doesn’t need more extraction.
It needs witnesses.
It needs restraint.
It needs us to decide that progress doesn’t have to begin with a wound.
#OceanHoptimism #DeepSea #YourPhoneCanWait
The deep sea doesn’t need more extraction.
It needs witnesses.
It needs restraint.
It needs us to decide that progress doesn’t have to begin with a wound.
#OceanHoptimism #DeepSea #YourPhoneCanWait
A global push now wants these nodules as raw materials—iron, manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt, zinc—for the next phone upgrade. A fossilized shark tooth, an apex predator from a vanished sea, cracked open on a conveyor belt so someone gets a marginally faster camera. That’s the trade on the table.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A global push now wants these nodules as raw materials—iron, manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt, zinc—for the next phone upgrade. A fossilized shark tooth, an apex predator from a vanished sea, cracked open on a conveyor belt so someone gets a marginally faster camera. That’s the trade on the table.
That got us thinking. We talk about deep-sea mining like it’s just another extraction frontier. But these nodules aren’t “ore.” They’re time. Their geo/ecological patience made tangible. They grow micromillimeter by micromillimeter over millions of years. Disturb them once, and they don’t come back.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
That got us thinking. We talk about deep-sea mining like it’s just another extraction frontier. But these nodules aren’t “ore.” They’re time. Their geo/ecological patience made tangible. They grow micromillimeter by micromillimeter over millions of years. Disturb them once, and they don’t come back.
Liz Taylor shared an extraordinary image last night: manganese nodules grown around fossilized shark teeth—teeth that fell to the seafloor millions of years ago, slow-danced in sediment, then accreted into these strange, balls of metal.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Liz Taylor shared an extraordinary image last night: manganese nodules grown around fossilized shark teeth—teeth that fell to the seafloor millions of years ago, slow-danced in sediment, then accreted into these strange, balls of metal.
#OceanHoptimism
#OceanHoptimism
Liz Taylor, CEO of DOER Marine, reminds us: there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeless about the ocean—but also 8 billion reasons for hope. Each of us can make better choices, take part in local restoration, and care for the ocean like our lives depend on it. Because they do. #OceanHoptimism
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Liz Taylor, CEO of DOER Marine, reminds us: there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeless about the ocean—but also 8 billion reasons for hope. Each of us can make better choices, take part in local restoration, and care for the ocean like our lives depend on it. Because they do. #OceanHoptimism
We’re building community at Ocean Hoptimism: one talk, one conversation, one pint at a time. Grateful to every speaker and every person who shows up. You’re helping lay the groundwork for something hopeful, local, and lasting. Thank you for being part of this.
#OceanHoptimism
www.oceanhoptimism.org
#OceanHoptimism
www.oceanhoptimism.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We’re building community at Ocean Hoptimism: one talk, one conversation, one pint at a time. Grateful to every speaker and every person who shows up. You’re helping lay the groundwork for something hopeful, local, and lasting. Thank you for being part of this.
#OceanHoptimism
www.oceanhoptimism.org
#OceanHoptimism
www.oceanhoptimism.org
Huge thank you to everyone who brought food donations to our Thanksgiving drive last night! ❤️ You made a real difference for East Bay families heading into next week. Community, compassion & ocean hope—this is what #OceanHoptimism looks like.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Huge thank you to everyone who brought food donations to our Thanksgiving drive last night! ❤️ You made a real difference for East Bay families heading into next week. Community, compassion & ocean hope—this is what #OceanHoptimism looks like.