by Laura | Aug 20, 2014 | Eco Mindset
I love acknowledging Eco Heros, what it means to be eco inspirational and reflecting on the eco journeys of others. And of course, from time to time I turn my reflection inwards and ask where where I get my eco inspiration from. Indeed I’ve shared my Eco Force on this...
by Laura | Jun 11, 2014 | Zero Waste Home
Despite the birthday parties of my childhood happening to be fairly simple affairs, they remain some of my most treasured childhood memories. My mother would make sausage rolls and cupcakes and choreograph games of pass the parcel, musical chairs and pin the tail on...
by Laura | May 22, 2014 | Chemical Free Living
I remember breaking up with my first ‘steady’ boyfriend as clear as if it happened yesterday. I was 14 years old and we had been “going out” for around 8 months. His parents thought it was time to part ways before things potentially got...
by Laura | Mar 2, 2014 | Chemical Free Living, Sustainable Eating
Can you recall what propelled you to embrace clean eating and organically grown foods? Did it coincide with pregnancy, weaning your baby onto solid foods or was it a gradual adoption over time? I’ve always been mindful of eating healthy but a chronic health issue in...
by Laura | Feb 20, 2014 | Eco Parenting
Like every new mum checking out of hospital, I left the ward with not only my new baby, but a decent dose of mother’s guilt. In fact, in my 4+ years of mothering initially one, and now two gorgeous boys, it’s likely that not a day has passed without me beating myself...
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. 
