by Laura | May 31, 2022 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter, Zero Waste Home
Property prices in Australia surged 22% in 2021[1], its biggest jump since the 1980s, making home ownership an impossible dream for many. This increase coincided with crippling Covid-19-induced lockdowns across much of Australia, resulting in many small businesses...
by Laura | May 1, 2022 | Global Environmental Issues
In 2018, after experiencing Sweden’s hottest summer on record, a 15-year-old Greta Thunberg protested alone outside the Swedish parliament with a sign saying “School Strike for Climate”, to pressure her government to meet carbon emission targets. Within a few short...
by Laura | Apr 12, 2022 | Conscious Business, Global Environmental Issues
We all need a bank to help us manage our money. But what if “who” we banked with made a difference? What if your everyday banking was yet another avenue to create a better future for humanity? What if your everyday banking could create a better global environment in...
by Laura | Mar 15, 2022 | Conscious Business, Global Environmental Issues
Superannuation is incredibly important to ensure you’re comfortable financially in retirement. But what if superannuation had another purpose? What if superannuation was an avenue for you to create a better future for humanity? What if superannuation was an avenue for...
by Laura | Feb 14, 2022 | Global Environmental Issues
Whether it’s eating organically grown food, avoiding fast fashion or divesting your financial investments from fossil fuels, tobacco or companies with a track record of modern slavery, conscious consumers and investors have long voted with their money and changed the...
by Laura | Nov 24, 2021 | Global Environmental Issues
If you’ve been feeling down about the state of the global environment, particularly after COP26 in Glasgow, this Eco Chat episode is for you. I’m sharing a presentation I delivered to around 200 doctors last month at the Doctors for the Environment iDEA 2021...
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. 
