Oceans of Hope

Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! Today’s episode is another Our Planet watch-along. What is the topic? The high Seas! I really enjoyed this episode learning all about the high seas and the creatures that call it home!

Links to Sources

Our Planet: High Seas

https://home.cern/cloud-experiment-uncovers-a-major-new-source-of-marine-aerosol-particles/

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! Today’s episode is all about corals and coral bleaching. I talk a bit about what corals are, why they bleach, and what scientists are studying related to bleaching!

References

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Coral recovery time cut short by warming oceans

NOAA Coral Reef Watch

Recovery without resilience? Contrasting benthic recovery trajectories six years after a mass coral bleaching event

Unprecedented 2020 coral bleaching reveals unexpected taxa-specific responses in the central Red Sea

Decadal tracking reveals species-specific limits to coral thermal acclimatization

Caribbean massive corals not recovering from repeated thermal stress events during 2005-2013

Future of coral bleaching research

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! Fall is on the horizon and Oceans of Hope is back for our fifth season! Today's episode is a description of the Trash Samurai in Japan and how they can be an inspiration for us all.

Links to Collective Action Organizations

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zaD6NFTkpd4

https://theworld.org/stories/2023/05/19/litterers-beware-tokyo-s-samurai-trash-collectors-are-watching-you

https://soranews24.com/2023/02/05/garbage-collecting-samurai-keep-japanese-streets-clean-but-whats-their-real-story/

The documentary is linked at the bottom of this link.

https://japandeluxetours.com/blog/samurai-of-shibuya

https://www.upworthy.com/samurai-litter-pickers-japan/

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! Welcome to the last episode of season 4! I am going to take the rest of the summer to prep new episodes and have a bit of a break before starting the school year and season five! Be sure to follow along on Instagram to see when we are coming back and what I get up to this summer!

Episodes referred to in this episode:

Mental Health and Sustainability

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! Here is another Our Planet Episode all about Deserts and Grasslands! It is a super fun one, I think so I hope you all enjoy and give the episode a watch as well.

Link to Our Planet

https://www.ourplanet.com/en/

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! I am very excited about today's episode. I have been seeing Solarpunk all over my social media lately. Here, I outline what Solarpunk is and how we can start creating a Solarpunk world. I hope you enjoy and find hope in the ideas of Solarpunk like I have!

Links to Solarpunk Information

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/solarpunk-imagines-future-renewable-tech-socio-ecological-enlightenment/##

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Solarpunk

https://re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/

https://republicofthebees.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-steampunk-to-solarpunk.htmlhttps://solarpunkfestival.com/history/

https://solarpunkfestival.com/history/

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/02/solarpunk-sci-fi-books-literary-genres-climate-change-optimism-technology/

https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/

https://earth.org/solarpunk/

https://solarpunkmagazine.com/

https://thejaymo.net/solarpunk/

https://solarpunkanarchists.com/

https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349027086_Multispecies_Cities_Solarpunk_Urban_Futures

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Happy Belated Earth Day! I got to spend Earth Day this year walking into Washington D.C. with the Great Mother March, celebrating the end of a march towards what we want to see in the world! It was a beautiful day of community and intersectionality that is embodied in this episode.

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Happy almost Earth Day! This is a collection of messages for the ocean from our community here at Oceans of Hope. They are messages of love, admiration, and respect. If you are inspired, feel free to reflect on and send your own message to the instagram! Enjoy!

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! In today’s episode, Jordan dives into the history of environmentalism, sharing many insights and fun facts about the environmental movement, perfect to bring to your next dinner party or lively debate.

Sources Referenced:

• Greenpeace
• University of Michigan
• PBS Timeline

For More Information On:

• Orion Myth
• Taoism
• Vedic Sages

If you want to participate in the Messages to the Ocean Special Earth Day episode make sure to send in your message (either written or recorded) to @oceansofhopepod on Instagram or deepblueworld1@gmail.com by April 10!

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Happy Monday, Oceans of Hope! In today’s episode, Jordan sits down with her roommate, Maisie Grogan, a fellow PhD student, to chat about all things grad school, phytoplankton, and hopeful moments.

Links:

• Maisie Grogan at Virginia Institute for Marine Science

Follow Oceans of Hope on Instagram! Don’t forget to rate and review the podcast if you like it. Remember to take a deep breath in, and be grateful for the oxygen phytoplankton and algae in the oceans provide us with! If interested in writing or recording a message to the ocean, dm it to @oceansofhopepod on Instagram or deepblueworld1@gmail.com. Lastly, be sure to share this episode with your friends and family (and anyone else you would like to) if you enjoyed it!

Happy Monday! The Deep Sea is the largest habitat on Earth and one of the least understood! Today we dive it to three of the weird and wonderful critters that call the Deep Sea home.

Links Referred to in the Episode:
- Hag Fish video

Sources about Hag Fish:

https://marinelab.fsu.edu/labs/grubbs/research/deep-sea/hagfish/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/pii/B9780323908016001543

https://marinespecies.wildlife.ca.gov/pacific-hagfish/the-species/

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/interview/doug-fudge

Sources about Angler Fish:

https://news.yale.edu/2024/05/23/sea-love-behind-unusual-sexual-parasitism-deep-water-anglerfish

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/deep-sea-anglerfish

https://oceana.org/marine-life/deep-sea-anglerfish/

Sources about Pompeii Worms:

https://spj.science.org/doi/full/10.34133/space.0017

https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/marinesymbiosis/pompeii.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4002450/

If you want to participate in the Messages to the Ocean Special Earth Day episode make sure to send in your message (either written or recorded) to deepblueworld1@gmail.com by April 10!

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Happy Monday Oceans of Hope! After a bit of a hiatus while getting used to life as a graduate student I am making the effort to bring the podcast back! Today’s episode we talk about Mental Health, sustainability, and how it can be hard to balance being active and aware of how we are impacting our planet and being mentally healthy. I am not a mental health professional, so please seek advice from a professional if you are worried about your own mental health, but these are just a few tips and tricks to avoid burnout and deal with mild climate anxiety.

Links to Collective Action Organizations

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

https://www.surfrider.org/

https://rebellion.global/

https://www.sierraclub.org/

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Happy Monday! Spring has sprung, and for me, that means it is time for my yearly closet clean-out. In today's episode, I talk about how I clean out my closet to make the whole process a bit more sustainable.

Links Referred to in the Episode:
Wardrobe reset series!
Finatics
Cost per wear spreadsheet idea!
Parade

The truth behind donated clothes articles:
https://wayforth.com/blog/moving-solutions-b2c/4-ways-to-ensure-donated-clothes-dont-end-up-in-a-landfill/
https://www.greenamerica.org/unraveling-fashion-industry/what-really-happens-unwanted-clothes
https://www.goodwillcfl.org/donate/sustainability/#:~:text=Donations%20%E2%80%93%20Less%20than%20two%20percent,are%20sent%20to%20local%20landfills

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Hello Everyone! Thank you so much for your patience while I took a break from the podcast to apply to grad school. I am now in the waiting game to see what schools I will get into so the podcast is back! It took me a little while to get my inspiration for the podcast back, but I went on a backpacking trip with work a couple of weeks ago and now my inspiration is back. Today's episode talks all about the trip and how easy it can be to connect to nature. I hope you all enjoy it!

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Happy Monday! Today's episode is all about the back-to-school season that we have somehow made it back to. I have always loved back-to-school time and in this episode, I talk about how we can make this time of year a bit more sustainable.

Links Referred to in the Episode
My Website

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Hello everyone! This episode is a recap of my Plastic Free July experience. I talk about some things I learned, my takeaways, and why we need to use our voice as well as our dollar to tell producers what we care about.

Links Referred to in the Episode:
Swanson's Fabric
Plastic Free July Episode

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Happy Monday! This week's episode is another is the Our Planet Series. For this one, I watched episode 4 of Our Planet about Coastal Seas. I absolutely loved watching this episode because it was all about the oceans and how we are impacting them, which you know is my jam! Give it a listen and go watch Our Planet on Netflix!

I looked it up! The difference between fur seals and sea lions. I was almost right in the episode, Fur Seals have a shorter snout and slightly larger ear flaps.

Links Referred to in the Episode:
OurPlanet.com

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Happy Plastic Free July! In this episode I talk all about Plastic Free July and how I am challenging myself to use less plastic this month. I talk a little about the history of Plastic Free July and how I am thinking about it this year.

Links referred to in this episode:
Plastic Free July
Plastic Free July Instagram
My Instagram

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Happy Monday! Welcome back to my mythology series on the podcast. Today I look into conservation and climate change in Norse Mythology. This one is a bit different than the Greek Mythology episode; instead of focusing on one god or goddess, we are looking at the Ragnarok myth and its connection to what will happen with climate change if we don't make a change. The Norse were intimately connected with the world around them and it shows in their myths. Enjoy!

Links Referred to in the Episode:
Greek Mythology Episode
Rok Stone Article
Ragnarok Article
Spirits Podcast
Biophilic Design Episode

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Source Articles:
https://mythologysource.com/jord-mother-of-thor/
https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Jord
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Norse/Jord/jord.html
https://norse-mythology.org/jord/

Happy World Oceans Day!! This Thursday (June 8th) is World Oceans Day when we take special care to show the oceans a little love. Similar to Earth Day we should always be showing the oceans our love but on this day we get to be more intentional about it. For World Oceans Day this year, I collected love letters to the ocean from some amazing people who all love the ocean very much!

Maddie's Instagram
12 Tides Instagram
12 Tides
Caitlin's Instagram
Whitney's Instagram

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