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Safina Center Update 10/17/25
This week, we've got updates from our Safina Center Fellows, new podcasts, and more!
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Ticket Sales and Sponsorship opportunities for the Safina Center’s 2025 Annual Celebration are Now Live!
Join us on the evening of Thursday, November 6th at the Explorers Club for a night of camaraderie, some good news, dinner, cocktails and a much-needed lift, showcasing our values-changing, life-altering work!
Purchase tickets or sponsor the event on our website.
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Fellow Spotlight:
Paul Greenberg
Paul Greenberg is an author, educator, and the Safina Center’s Writer-in-Residence. He writes at the intersection of the environment and technology, seeking to help his readers escape screens and find emotional and ecological balance with their planet. He is the author of six books including the New York Times bestseller and Notable Book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. His latest book, A Third Term, is a speculative fiction novella in which George Washington is brought to the present to run in the 2028 presidential election against a certain tyrant seeking a third term.
Read more about Paul and his work on his website.
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Updates From Our Safina Center Fellows
Each year, we support a small group of early and mid-career creators and connectors whose work addresses conservation, the environment, and/or social justice in unique ways. You can find more information about our fellows on our website.
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Isaias Hernandez Explores Local Ecology at the Theodore Payne Foundation
In the latest episode of his webseries “Teaching Climate Together,” Safina Center Conservation Videography Fellow Isaias Hernandez visits the Theodore Payne Foundation in Southern California to learn about local ecology and native plants. Isaias tours the foundation’s gardens, seed banks, and libraries, and speaks with the executive director and several of their staff about their work.
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Mikaela Loach on Wellness, Rest and Vulnerability
“…my vulnerability rose to the surface in a wave that felt at first like it would drown me. But then I learned to breathe underwater,” writes Mikaela Loach in a new article on our blog. After a writing retreat in the Welsh countryside, Mikaela reflects on the importance of wellness and vulnerability as a public figure and activist.
Photo: Emily Oliver
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Hob Osterlund on the “Naturally Scott” Podcast
Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence Hob Osterlund joins Scott Harris on an episode of his podcast "Naturally Scott" to discuss Laysan albatross, conservation, resilience, and her career as a nurse, conservationist, writer, and photographer.
"People often say to me, 'don't you want to bring those albatross home for a pet?' and I say 'absolutely not...' I want them to be free. Freely themselves. I don't need them to love me back."
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Carl Safina and Caroline Sutton at BookHampton on October 18
This Saturday, October 18: Join Carl Safina and author Caroline Sutton at BookHampton in East Hampton, NY for a discussion of Sutton’s latest book Eyes in the Soles of My Feet.
The book is a collection of essays on the more overlooked or misunderstood lifeforms on our planet. Sutton is a long-time environmental writer who contributed essays to Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Terrain.org, North American Review, Cimarron Review, and The Los Angeles Review. She is the bestselling author of the book How Do They Do That?
Register now on BookHampton’s website.
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A Third Term
By Safina Center Writer-in-Residence Paul Greenberg
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Purchase a Print from Eco-Surrealist Artist Victor Stabin’s Turtle Series and Support the Safina Center!
In collaboration with eco-surrealist artist Victor Stabin, 50% of the profits from every print purchased from his Turtle Series will go towards the Safina Center!
Just use code "SAFINA" at checkout to make sure your purchase supports our work!
See the full collection on Victor Stabin's Website.
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