by Laura | Oct 23, 2018 | Eco Mindset, Eco Parenting, Live Lighter
If you’re a parent or grandparent trying to raise the children in your life in as sustainable a way as possible, this post is for you! I’m sharing four strategies to help you to eco parent successfully in the modern world. Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe in...
by Laura | Sep 3, 2018 | Energy and Water Efficient Home, Live Lighter
If you’ve ever built a new home, you’ll appreciate just how much time and effort goes into the planning, designing and construction phases. But what about if you want to take it a step further by building a sustainable home? This week on the podcast I’m joined by my...
by Laura | Jul 24, 2018 | Eco Parenting, Live Lighter, Zero Waste Home
In this post I discuss the marketing genius and environmental nightmare of the Coles Little Shop promotion and share three reasons why you should rethink supermarket collectables. Kids love collecting things and marketers know it. Whether it’s a new Thomas the Tank...
by Laura | May 8, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
I love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains I love her far horizons I love her jewel-sea Her beauty, and her terrors The wide brown land for me. I’ve been able to recite verse two of Dorothea...
by Laura | Apr 23, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
When did you last purchase a new item of clothing? When did you last move an item on from your wardrobe? And where and how did you move this item on? How much of your wardrobe do you actually wear on a regular basis? I encourage you to take moment to reflect on these...
by Laura | Apr 11, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
(image credit: Jess Leask) In this Eco Chat I catch up with Samantha Reynolds of ECOCEAN on whale sharks, conservation and following your dreams. Do you have a long-held dream to work in science or sustainability but have yet to taken the plunge? If that’s the...
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. 
