London

Paul Pulford of Grounded Ecotherapy and Head Gardener at the Southbank Centre's roof garden.

With GoodGym, Grounded Ecotherapy and the Southbank Centre.

In this episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast Running Out of Time special, we join the relay as it makes its way through London. We reconnect with Ivo Gormley, founder and CEO of GoodGym, after he and a group of lively GoodGymmers have carried the baton all the way from Parliament Hill in North-West London, to the Southbank Centre in Southwark. We speak to Emma Nutland, Arts and Wellbeing Manager at the venue, and learn about the incredible rooftop garden there, which has been growing for over a decade thanks to the care and dedication of Paul Pulford and his project Grounded Ecotherapy. And we meet Paul himself who tells us a bit more about his journey from addiction struggles to star-gardener at the UK’s largest arts centre. 

Listen to learn more about the amazing impact that this urban-greening initiative is having on all those involved. 

Show Notes  

Find out more about what’s happening across Westminster for climate and nature: https://carboncopy.eco/local-climate-action/westminster  

Find out more about Find out more about what’s happening across Southwark for climate and nature, here: https://carboncopy.eco/local-climate-action/southwark 

Learn about Grounded Ecotherapy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/grounded-ecotherapy

Learn more about GoodGym: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/goodgym 

Hear our earlier chat with GoodGym founder and CEO, Ivo Gormley in our first Carbon Copy Podcast Running Out of Time Special episode: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/root24-ben-nevis 

Listen to an earlier episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast, which focuses on the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time in nature: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/returning-to-our-trees  

Sign up for a leg of the Running Out of Time relay: https://running-out-of-time.com/route