by Laura | Jan 27, 2016 | Conscious Business
At the start of every year I like to reflect on the key highlights of the previous year – both personal and professional. I do this because I always find that looking back fills me with such a massive sense of achievement and pride and it also helps me to decide where...
by Laura | Jan 20, 2016 | Sustainable Eating
I enjoy experimenting with Australian ‘bush tucker’ herbs and spices in my cooking and wattleseed is a firm favourite. It has a strong coffee, chocolate and hazelnut flavour that’s delicious with icecream. Enjoy this recipe! My very first job (at the...
by Laura | Jan 12, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
What’s the Bother with Borax? Is Borax safe or not? Borax is one of those ‘natural’ cleaning products that can divide a room. The ‘CAUTION Keep Out of Reach of Children’ notification on the container, teamed with the child-proof lid that even the man of the house...
by Laura | Jan 6, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
If you’re unsure about whether or not you should make the effort to break up with toxins in your home, this post is for you! Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe in iTunes Like many women in their mid-thirties, I grew up in a household where every cleaning task...
by Laura | Dec 27, 2015 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
So many of us focus our new year resolutions on health areas such as losing weight, getting fitter or quitting smoking, and while these are great goals to have, it make sense to include an eco resolution or two as well. Why? Because we can’t be truly healthy if our...
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. 
