Podcasts by How It Looks From Here

HILFH #37 Paula MacKay from 2023-11-30T09:00

This month, Mary had the chance to talk with Paula McKay, a writer and conservation researcher. Paula has studied wild carnivores for the past two decades, and is currently affiliated with the L...

HILFH #36 Tyler Mark Nelson from 2023-10-29T09:00

Tyler Mark Nelson is an advanced student in the Masters of Divinity program at Yale Divinity School. He was raised on the northern banks of the Mississippi River, a stretch of the world that fig...

HILFH #35 Elizabeth Bernays from 2023-09-29T09:00

This month, Mary has the unique treat of listening to and learning from Dr. Elizabeth Bernays. Liz is an entomologist by training having received her Ph.D. from the University of London. But her...

HILFH #34 Gary Ferguson&Mary Clare from 2023-08-31T09:00

With this episode we begin our fourth season. Our very first episode  of How it Looks from Here went live September of 2020. The pandemic was just getting going. W...

HILFH #33 Dr. Zaher Wahab from 2023-07-30T09:00

Dr Zaher Wahab is professor emeritus of Education at Lewis & Clark College, and former senior advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. Dr Wahab, also taught at American University...

HILF #32 Mariana Pickering from 2023-06-25T09:00

In this episode, Mary spends some time with Mariana Pickering, co-founder of Emu Passive, a consultation group that offers training and consultation on the design and construction of high qualit...

HILFH #31 Alison Cunningham from 2023-05-30T09:00

Alison Cunningham is an activist and public leader in New Haven, CT. Currently, she serves as the Director of Professional Formation for Yale University’s Divinity School and this month she...

HILFH #30 Jack Pearson from 2023-04-30T09:00

This month our guest is Jack Pearson, another young leader who, as a recent college graduate, is currently on a Fulbright study grant in Jordan. Mary and Jack spoke over Zoom, Jack in his apartm...

HILFH #29 Ali Ramirez from 2023-03-30T09:00

Ali keeps a relatively low profile these days. She runs ultra marathons, applies her knowledge of physical therapy as a pilates instructor extraordinaire, and ventrues out far and wide in the wi...

HILFH #28 Sean Hill from 2023-02-27T06:00

This month, Mary talks with poet Sean Hill. Sean is currently on faculty with University of Montana in Missoula. His path to that post began in Milledgeville, GA where he spent his chi...

HILFH #27 Scott Bosse from 2023-01-29T09:00

This month Mary speaks with Scott Bosse, Regional Director of the Northern Rockies Office of American Rivers, a non profit devoted to clean water and healthy rivers. Since they were recording fo...

HILFH #26 Jesine Munson from 2022-12-30T09:00

This month, Mary speaks with Jesine Munson, an artist, historian and philosopher. Jesine landed on the planet in 1988, a Montanan born and raised. She's currently completing a PhD dissertation s...

HILFH #25 Thomas Doherty from 2022-11-30T09:00

This month, Mary speaks with Thomas Doherty, PhD Clinical Psychologist and internationally recognized expert on the psychology of living in and with climate change. 

Thomas is best kn...

HILFH #24 Lill Erickson from 2022-10-28T09:00

Mary speaks with Lill Erickson, Executive Director of Western Sustainability Exchange.

Western Sustainability Exchange is a nonprofit organization in Livingston, Montana dedicated to, "pre...

HILFH #23 Elk River Writer's Workshop Part 2 from 2022-09-30T09:00

Tune in for PART 2 of the panel of the five authors who spoke of the way the world looks to them in last episode of How It Looks from Here. In August, Gary & Mary were on the facul...

HILFH #22 Elk River Writer's Workshop Part 1 from 2022-09-01T00:45

To open Season 3 of HILFH, Gary & Mary were part of an unequaled faculty of writers in support of an equally astonishing group of students, all of us at the Elk River Writers' Workshop in th...

HILFH #21 Asher Jay from 2022-07-27T09:00

This episode, Mary speaks with Asher Jay, an award-winning conservationist artist, entrepreneur, National Geographic Explorer, and philosopher. Their conversation goes deep: from the psychologic...

HILFH #20 Lavoy Tolbert from 2022-06-28T09:00

This episode, Mary speaks with Lavoy Tolbert, legendary educator and wilderness therapist. Lavoy speaks of his connection to place near Loa, Utah, his understanding of the lessons that nature is...

HILFH #19 Chuck Hudson from 2022-06-06T09:00

In this episode, Mary speaks with Chuck Hudson, Hidatsa Elder and longtime expert in Tribal/Federal policy and government relations. Chuck speaks of his and his family's history and experie...

HILFH #18 Petra Kuppers from 2022-04-09T09:00

This month Mary talks with Petra Kuppers, a disability culture activist and community performance artist. Petra holds the Anita Gonzalez Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Cult...

HILFH #17 Susan Bragdon from 2022-03-29T09:00

In this episode Mary talks with Susan Bragdon, the executive director and founder of SEEDS FOR ALL, an organization devoted to global food security. Seeds for All supports agroecology and regene...

HILFH #16 Karuna Eberl from 2022-02-28T09:00

This month Mary talks with Karuna Eberl, a freelance journalist, photographer and filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, nature, travel, science and hist...

HILFH #15 CMarie Fuhrman from 2022-01-31T09:00

This week, Mary speaks with CMarie Fuhrman, a poet and essayist. They talk about love, the deep, interconnected integrity that humans share with the natural world, and the grief that we must all...

HILFH #14 Alayna Rasile Digrindakis from 2021-12-31T09:00

This week, Mary speaks with Alayna Rasile Digrindakis, about Alayna's work with plant-based textiles, fine art, and environmental activism. As an emerging young artist and designer, Alayna is ke...

HILFH #13 Dustin Hunt from 2021-12-04T09:00

This month, Mary talks with Dustin Hunt, a muralist, art educator, and DJ at large in Lansing, Michigan. Dustin describes the challenges and triumphs of teaching math to youth through art. Withi...

HILFH #12 J. Drew Lanham from 2021-10-31T09:00

Listen to how it all looks to Dr. J. Drew Lanham - ornithologist, scholar, activist and author of the celebrated memoir, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man'...

HILFH #11 Pamela Reed Sanchez from 2021-09-29T09:00

For the second episode of Season 2, Mary interviews Pamela Reed Sanchez, the president and CEO of the Seneca Park Zoo Society in Rochester, NY. Pamela holds close the connection of peo...

HILFH #11 Pamela Reed Sanchez from 2021-09-29T09:00

For the second episode of Season 2, Mary interviews Pamela Reed Sanchez, the president and CEO of the Seneca Park Zoo Society in Rochester, NY. Pamela holds close the connection of people...

HILFH #10 Gary Ferguson from 2021-09-01T09:00

In our first episode of Season 2, Mary talks with her co-author and partner Gary Ferguson about their shared work, and recently published book, Full Ecology: Repairing our Relationship with the ...

HILFH #10 Gary Ferguson from 2021-09-01T09:00

In our first episode of Season 2, Mary talks with her co-author and partner Gary Ferguson about their shared work, and recently published book, Full Ecology: Repairing our Relationship with the Nat...

HILFH #10, Season 2 Gary Ferguson from 2021-09-01T09:00

In our first episode of Season 2, Mary talks with her co-author and partner Gary Ferguson about their shared work, and recently published book, Full Ecology: Repairing our Relationship with the Nat...

HILFH #9 Jon Trapp from 2021-04-14T09:00

In this episode, Mary Clare speaks with Jon Trapp, a wildland firefighter and fire behavior analyst, emergency search and rescue volunteer, and wolf biologist. Jon describes his experience worki...

HILFH #8 Graham Stacy from 2021-03-20T09:00

In this episode, Mary talks with Graham Stacy just a few days before his 16th birthday. Graham lives in Gardiner, Montana. Gardiner has grown up around the Yellowstone Arch - the original e...

HILFH #7 Meagan Lannan from 2021-01-30T09:00

In this episode, Mary talks to Meagan Lannan, a regenerative rancher, mother, and sustainable foods advocate in Paradise Valley, Montana. Meagan describes her work on the land, with her cows, go...

HILFH #6 Michelle Browder from 2021-01-04T09:00

Mary speaks with artist, alternative tour guide, and activist Michelle Browder. Based in Montgomery Alabama, Michelle Browder comes from a long line of civil rights and community activists. Mich...

HILFH #5 Sara Mapelli from 2020-12-01T09:00

In this episode, Mary Clare speaks with healer, activist, and artist Sara Mapelli about her life in Oregon and her work with bees. This year, Sara has endured hardships ranging from the immanent...

HILFH #4 Paris Mullen part 2 from 2020-11-13T09:00

Mary and Paris continue their conversation, this time focusing on the intersections of the environment and social movements. Our social ecologies inform environments large and small, from global...

HILFH #3 Paris Mullen - part 1 from 2020-10-25T09:00

In the first of our two-part interview with public health worker and activist Paris Mullen, Mary and Paris talk about the recent protests for racial justice in Chicago and the ways in which the ...

HILFH #2 Carmen Yupe from 2020-10-01T12:00

Host Mary Clare speaks with Shoshone-Bannock tribal member Carmen Yupe about Carmen's pillars of strength in this time of COVID. Carmen tells stories of her training as a yoga instructor and her...

HILFH #1 Joe Loviska from 2020-09-18T09:00

Welcome to How It Looks From Here. In this first episode, creators Mary Clare and Joe Loviska talk about how Joe's work in higher education has changed in times of COVID-19.

Check out Mar...