by Laura | Feb 20, 2017 | Conscious Business
Sometimes the thrill of building a conscious business around our passion is enough for us to accept average profits. However, passion doesn’t pay the bills and volunteering in your business isn’t a sustainable option in the long-term. If you want your business to make...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2017 | Chemical Free Living
Lotions and potions, deodorant, perfumes, soaps, exfoliants, shower gels, and make up: many of us probably use some or most of these products every day and may not give them a second thought. In this blog episode I’ll chat about why beauty products may not actually be...
by Laura | Feb 7, 2017 | Chemical Free Living, Zero Waste Home
So you’ve been trying hard to eat clean and reduce the additives and toxins in your diet, but are you cleaning clean? In this blog episode I’ll introduce the concept of “Clean Cleaning” with you and share how cleaning with foods is the best waste-free, safe, and...
by Laura | Jan 31, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
It’s little surprise that the foods we eat impact our environment. Whether it be high food miles, large amounts of water or chemicals used to produce the food, land degradation caused by food production, or resources used to process and package the food and transport...
by Laura | Jan 24, 2017 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
I hope you enjoyed the previous two episodes where I chatted biodiversity and climate change with Professor Bill Laurance from James Cook University. Discussing the big issues always helps to reignite our passion and remind us just why we’re on this journey together....
Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009. She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award (2015) for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Eco-friendly category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards). With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia. 
