Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Whew, that one went on too long. USGS says 5.9 on the Big Island. Here on Maui 100 miles away, on the second floor, it sent us rocking back and forth. Strongest I’ve felt in 7 years here. I hope everyone’s ok over there. 020
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Happy to see some better science happening here. Study finds native waterbirds were probably most abundant right before Europeans arrived to the islands because Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) managed shorelines for waterbirds. www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/01...hawaii.eduStudy debunks myth of Native Hawaiians causing bird extinctions | University of Hawaiʻi System NewsA new UH study found no scientific evidence that Indigenous people hunted waterbird species to extinction. 161
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyCarl Safina @csafina.bsky.social · 21/04/2026time.com/6273684/eart... Never mind climate change or pollution--the issue runs much wider and deeper and calls us to all these and more.time.comThe Case For Making Earth Day a Religious HolidayCelebrating the world as a living miracle should be more fun and important than it currently is. 032
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026"Nature spirituality is all about inspiration—what could this possibly have to do with the cesspool of politics?" It's time to answer this question. 26 mins listening, or read it with some pretty pictures too priscillastuckey.substack.com/p/62-connect...priscillastuckey.substack.com62. Connecting with Nature's WaysListen now | On a path of nature spirituality, even politics goes through nature 030
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Hawaiian proverb: “Hahai no ka ua i ka ulu lāʻau. Plant a forest and the rains will come.” “Share purpose with others & transform the world.” 200 volunteers in one night planted a coconut grove to help bring back the Hawaiian culture of everyday access to coconuts. kawaiola.news/aina/the-fir...kawaiola.newsThe First Coconut Grove Planted on Maui in Over 100 Years - Ka Wai OlaThe echo of pahu drums under the darkened sky signaled to the 200 volunteers who stood waiting that it was time to begin their work: planting Maui’s first uluniu (coconut grove) in over 100 years. 021
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026This should be a bigger story. open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...open.substack.comSam Alito has an oil money problemNearly 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels. 0114
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 26/02/2026What a thrill—to meet one of my all-time heroes! Sylvia Earle, "Her Deepness," the first woman to walk on the sea floor, the first woman chief scientist at NOAA. Now 92, she is small, with a quiet voice, but what a powerhouse for the sea! "No water, no life. No blue, no green." 170
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyMatt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026A nudibranch for you, Bluesky! This is a Phyllidia (I'm not sure exactly what species) from Anilao #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿 17711
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyPriscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026My brand-new website! To express my love for the sea. I designed a lot of it, and working on it helped me remember to keep my heart open—as open as the vast and rolling sea. Here’s the behind-the-scenes tour of how the design came to be. open.substack.com/pub/priscill...open.substack.comCelebrating the SeaIn the middle of a national crisis, I've been working on a website 042
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"I believe that tribal culture, philosophy, & knowledge of the natural world are equivalent to W science & religion & I believe they are superior in many ways. We don't produce as many mechanical gimmicks, but we certainly produce better people." —Vine Deloria Jr. ty @leilanisabz.bsky.social 020
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026My brand-new website! To express my love for the sea. I designed a lot of it, and working on it helped me remember to keep my heart open—as open as the vast and rolling sea. Here’s the behind-the-scenes tour of how the design came to be. open.substack.com/pub/priscill...open.substack.comCelebrating the SeaIn the middle of a national crisis, I've been working on a website 042
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyDr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I'm late to the party (it's been a busy weekend) but I had to post at least one #SuperbOwl before calling it a day :) #birds 🌿 738235
Reposted by Priscilla Stuckeyoakandredwood9.bsky.social @oakandredwood9.bsky.social · 09/02/2026This osprey was unexpected and gorgeous #MarineLife over the cliffs at the Monterey Bay today… 1132
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 17/12/202561. The Language of Nonspeaking Beings How long does it take to move past the mind-body split of Descartes? In my case, a lifetime. Some wisdom from mushrooms and from a bougainvillea I knew long ago about stepping toward a world of kinship. open.substack.com/pub/priscill...open.substack.com61. The Language of Nonspeaking BeingsAnd what a bougainvillea taught me about how long it can take to step into a kinship world 061
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Fantastic summary: The 4 steps to toppling dictators nonviolently. Wagingnonviolence.org is a powerful library for planning what comes next. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/the-...wagingnonviolence.orgThe playbook of every successful nonviolent struggleNonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps. 011
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Listening to a beautiful interview with a scientist from the Amazon rainforest with Indigenous roots. Rosa Vásquez Espinosa practices both traditions of knowing. open.substack.com/pub/natehage...open.substack.comTwo Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New DiscoveriesThe Great Simplification #201 with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza 0112
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Amy Westervelt says one nation at COP30 brought it: “The most inspirational action came from…the small but mighty Colombian delegation, the only one whose negotiators and civil society groups were unified in their call for one primary goal: a commitment to phase out fossil fuels.” 020
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Working with native plants is so magical! We're helping to restore the native dryland forest at the top of Haleakalā. priscillastuckey.substack.com/p/60-hui-up-...priscillastuckey.substack.com60. Hui Up and Care for the LandListen now | Planting our feet in what is real and life renewing 110
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Did Americans really vote for this? I needed to know. So I pored over statistical reports from @electiontruthalliance.org. Here's what I found: it's worse than I'd heard! Evidence of vote manipulation across multiple states. We need hand audits! priscillastuckey.substack.com/p/59-did-the...priscillastuckey.substack.com59. Did the People Choose This President?Listen now | Statistical analyses of voting data are raising serious red flags 200
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025your moment of calm: a mossy waterfall deep in the heart of a Mount Hood trail. 455571
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025To stand up to fascism, the most important thing we can do, every day, is to plant ourselves firmly in what is true. And yes, we all have the ability to see clearly and know what is true. Though getting there takes a little practice.open.substack.com58. How Do We Know What Is True?Yes, everyone has a built-in place where they can see clearly. And getting there takes some practice. 020
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Youth v. Gov: Here’s a moving update on the young people’s climate case against the govt. They just concluded two days of live testimony to a court in Missoula, MT. With Nobel laureates and scientists backing them up. Lawsuit brought by Our Children’s Trust. api.neonemails.com/emails/conte...api.neonemails.comIn the cool Missoula morning, supporters lined the sidewalk with bright orange marigolds, creating a path of hope leading to the courthouse. As our young plaintiffs walked through this tunnel of solidarity, they carried with them stories that no child should have to tell. 000
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/08/2025Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon. This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming. 11808249
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Unusually beautiful breakers along the Kihei coast today, and surfers were out enjoying them. A minute of the magnificent ocean. Peace. 080
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyCBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Why seabeds matter? 🌊 💙 These vital habitats are full of incredible wildlife and store vast amounts of carbon. Yet they are threatened with destruction by industrial scale fishing in many areas. For #NationalMarineWeek we’ll be sharing how you can help save our seabeds. 0142
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyTerri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 30/07/2025"When nature is personal, the world is peopled by rocks, trees, rivers, and mountains...protagonists of their own stories rather than just props in a human story. When Earth is truly alive, the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.” - @priscillastuckey.bsky.social (Kissed by a Fox) 08418
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Update: It passed! Great news, more local long-term housing. 000
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I wanted to watch the tsunami at the reef where we swim. So at the last minute I learned how to capture video on a phone. This is the Ulua beach webcam in South Kihei on Maui. The first wave surge happened later than expected, after dark, so no viewing. But here, for you, is the beach at sunset. 130
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyMatt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025A scorpionfish resting on coral, Anilao. Scorpaenopsis sp., maybe S. oxycephalus #MarineLife 🐟🌿 1699
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Coming to a vote 7/23 at the Maui council: a bill to return some short-term rentals to housing for local families. Keep your fingers crossed for us! Great summary here of Maui politics in recent years.mauinow.comOp-Ed: From GMO to STR — Maui’s fight to end the rule of profit over people | Maui NowOp-Ed: Lahaina Strong's De Andre Makakoa Takahashi shares his thoughts on the STR housing crisis and the movement's road from protest to policy. 010
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Imagine boldly! “What would it mean for law to transcend the Anthropocene and find itself rooted in forests, bees, mountains, and dirt, not as passive objects but as entangled kin that sustain life?”openglobalrights.orgWhat a more-than-human court could beIn an era of ecological collapse, law must evolve to hear the testimony of rivers, whales, and forests — not as metaphors, but as kin. 030
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyPriscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 19/07/2025"The land was made to be shared among all, rich and poor alike. But you rich men are trying to reserve it for yourselves!" From a radical voice today? No, from a bishop in 385 CE. But only a few years later no one preached this anymore. What happened? On the corrosive power of inequality.priscillastuckey.substack.comWhen Christians Denounced InequalityBefore the church adopted the empire's rules 0102
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 19/07/2025"The land was made to be shared among all, rich and poor alike. But you rich men are trying to reserve it for yourselves!" From a radical voice today? No, from a bishop in 385 CE. But only a few years later no one preached this anymore. What happened? On the corrosive power of inequality.priscillastuckey.substack.comWhen Christians Denounced InequalityBefore the church adopted the empire's rules 0102
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyPriscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Hello again, all you wonderful people! If you need a good dose of peacefulness—who doesn't these days?—here is my starter pack of nature appreciators. go.bsky.app/BGhJymM 3123
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyPriscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Touching silence. Touching joy. Touching Earth. I've been getting up for the dawn chorus this year. It's a spiritual practice yes, but also political resistance. Because authoritarians want to control others from the inside out. And saying no begins at home—in the secret places of our own heart.open.substack.com57. Holding Firm to an Open HeartBecause resistance begins at home 082
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Touching silence. Touching joy. Touching Earth. I've been getting up for the dawn chorus this year. It's a spiritual practice yes, but also political resistance. Because authoritarians want to control others from the inside out. And saying no begins at home—in the secret places of our own heart.open.substack.com57. Holding Firm to an Open HeartBecause resistance begins at home 082
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Great views! Often SO hard to see, even if you know they’re there. 000
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Maui sunset report: After a day when the smell of smoke filled the air from a brushfire across the ridge, the wind has died, the birds have bedded down, and even Mr. Northern Cardinal, first to rise and last to sing, has drifted into sleep. Peace. 030
Reposted by Priscilla StuckeyKatie Surma @katiesurma.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Tonga could be the first nation to recognize whales’ legal rights, a move called for by its princess at the UN Ocean Conference. insideclimatenews.org/news/1006202...insideclimatenews.orgTonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate NewsAt the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference. 0188
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Anyone else out there listening to Jamal sing Heal at least once a day? 000
Priscilla Stuckey @priscillastuckey.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Sunset report Maui: after extra strong gusts of wind all afternoon, the breeze has begun to settle down. The birds have quieted, except for one making big circles overhead, softly chipping. Peace. 0193