Holis, I’m Lavinia!
I am a former sustainability soldier on deprogramming turned provocateur, committed to questioning the status quo in the fashion and agricultural sectors. Heavily trained in corporate social responsibility and sustainability, I have spent years as an accredited auditor and consultant for various ecological and social standards & fashion brands and retailers. However, disillusioned by the pervasive 'white-savior-industrial complex' and the limitations of traditional sustainability approaches, I am now focused on centering justice and community-based solutions.
Speaking
I believe context is everything! I like to impart data & information around environmental & social justice in an engaging, motivational, emotional, entertaining and/or loud way. I try to incorporate clarity, passion and knowledge to deliver complex, smart and ambitious messages into wide-ranging ethical manifestos by storytelling and lived experiences.
I offer diverse consulting services around post-sustainability, ethics and anti-greenwashing. I welcome collaboration with grassroots organizations, forward-thinking companies embracing degrowth and intersectionality, farming communities, and sustainability professionals grappling with unanswered questions.
I offer 1:1 or group post-sustainability and ethics mentoring to explore and tackle problems and provide insights for systems thinking and interdependence, social and ecological justice and fair distribution, respect for limits and post-growth-economics. I do that for sustainability professionals who have unresolved questions, but also for everybody who is interested in changing dynamics.
Consulting by Co-Creation
Mentoring
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My community offer: Join the Radical Post-Sustainability Dialogues!
So many thoughtful people reach out to connect! While time & energy is limited, I want to offer a space for open and critical conversations on (un)sustainability, post-sustainability, resilience and pasts/presents/futures. Two years ago, I launched these dialogues to explore sustainability’s complexities and the perpetuated harm which comes with it (surprisingly unsurprising...) whether in quick exchanges or more expansive discussions. Everyone is welcome, as long as you come with an open heart and humility. (English, Spanish, or German, depending on the needs of the participants)
What’s the offer? Every Friday (almost!), I host a non-agenda, open Zoom call, a free space for: Students & curious minds, interviewers & researchers, sustainability professionals seeking community & deeper problem-understanding (≠ solutionism). No prep, no curation (unless there’s an interview request). Just raw dialogue, active listening and maybe collective sense-making on navigating sustainability’s challenges. Drop in spontaneously, no registration needed. In case I do not show up till 10 minutes after the hour, I unfortunately had to drop out or cancel, apologies in advance - life might have gotten me!).
12-12.45pm UTC I Zoom Link I Zoom Meeting ID: 878 5291 9382 I Passcode: 647467
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In order to help the fashion world to stop fooling around and to get facts straight, we (Tanita Hecking and my humble self) have issued the non-linear newsletter "The Crisps", a snackable briefing on anti-greenwashing and provocatively-honest fashion communication. Including short and savory analysis as well as current and coming legislation easily explained.
erlich stories - stay true to nature
This is me (stuck in between strong opinions, provocation, merit misgivings and looking for a caring community) and the video is about - guess what? Not organic undies, but a critical view on sustainability. The sweet teams from erlich textil and Vey Vey Films caught me, without any aggressive manifestation of product placement, censorship, or prescribed script. Quite “erlich” (which is a modification of “honest” in German) and pretty raw.
better cotton - redesigning cotton’s future with justice, land and livelihoods
Whenever I am invited to speak, I try to weave together data, stories and very obvious truths about coloniality in global economies. No sugarcoating, but a couple of momentums for action (I hope). Below is one example. Want this kind of way-at-breaking-things-down at your event? Let’s talk. A significant portion of my fees always flows back to the communities or partners affected by the topics I discuss - another trial of leaving extractivism behind.
