3.4 Grace Hull of Green Soul Grace: Holistic Sustainability
Hello! Welcome to series 3 episode 4 our Prompted by Nature. Spring is now officially springing and the sun has returned…kind of, although it’s still a little chilly, not quite t-shirt weather yet!
In today’s episode, I’m so excited to share with you the conversation I had with Grace of Green Soul Grace last week.
Grace Hull is an environmental educator who created Green Soul Grace, a personal blog, shop and podcast to explore what conscious living really means, in the most holistic, inclusive and accessible way, and Earth For All, an environmental education organisation. She takes pleasure in encouraging and facilitating folks to begin or further their journey of holistic sustainability, and in celebrating how our cultural heritage shapes our sustainable practices. I first fond out about Grace’s work via Instagram and bought a couple of her gorgeous cutlery wraps for my two children for when picnic weather comes again!
In this conversation we discuss:
Her work with Veolia and how it prompted her to set up Earth for All and Green Soul Grace
The importance of consuming less, repairing, and reusing over recycling
How redundancy and the passing of her mother gave her time to create something new for herself
What ‘holistic sustainability’ is and how it informs her work and life
The importance of representation and relatability in green, sustainable spaces
The influence of her Grandmother in her work
What Earth for All is and the motivation behind it
The part that her creativity plays in her work
Her connection to nature and how she uses this to help inspire others
What she’d like to pass on and her hope for the future
This was such a wonderful conversation and, really, I could have spoken to Grace for hours about her work! You can find Grace over on her social media @greensoulgrace, on her podcast of the same name, which you can find on Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. Her websites are www.greensoulgrace.org on which you can also find her beautiful shop, and www.earthforall.org.uk where you can find out about Grace’s speaking gigs and her schools’ workshops as well as her business consultancy and longer term projects.
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Remember to stick around until the end when you’ll hear all about the meditation and writing prompt that follows this episode. Happy listening and I’ll speak to you after!
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Thank you so much for listening - I absolutely loved that! In the meditation and writing prompt that follows this episode we’ll be starting with the concept of ‘reduce, reuse, repair’ in all of its guises and seeing where it takes us! As always I’m sending you lots of love. Happy writing and I’ll speak to you soon.
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In this meditation and writing prompt, we begin with a simple breathing exercise to bring the awareness to the breath and the body in order to help you move into the creative mind.
Inspired by Grace's words on the importance of repairing, reusing and repurposing over recycling, I then discuss the idea of repurposing, repairing or restarting a creative piece or idea that you may have put down, put away or completely disregarded. Nothing is wasted! Everything you've every created, 'good' or 'bad' can form the basis of something else.
Enjoy!
Helen x
