by Laura | May 9, 2017 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
If you’re keen to reduce your impact on the planet and improve your family’s health and well-being in the process, but you’re just not sure where to start, you’re in the right place! In this post, I’ve collated my best tips to start (or up level) your eco journey....
by Laura | Apr 11, 2017 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
Like Christmas, although to a much lesser degree, Easter is a time of high consumption. Big feasts, heaps of chocolates…. we all tend to indulge more than normal. As Easter is upon us all this week, I thought I’d share seven ways to make your Easter more sustainable....
by Laura | Mar 25, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
Preserving fruit helps to capture the flavours of summer to enjoy all year round …. without the tinned food flavour and without the BPA from the tins’ lining. I preserve peaches and other summer fruits like apricots in jars in a very light sugar syrup, so the...
by Laura | Mar 7, 2017 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
Do you sometimes struggle to live up to your own expectations of yourself? Especially in the lifestyle areas of things like living more sustainably, eating healthier, or even being the kind of mum, wife, husband, or business person that you want to be? Then this...
by Laura | Mar 7, 2017 | Eco Parenting, Live Lighter, Zero Waste Home
Definitely one of the best parts of my job is the people I meet. Whether it’s a local chatting to me about eco-living in my home town, getting to know my ecourse participants well through my closed Facebook communities, or bumping into one of my many fabulous...
by Laura | Feb 28, 2017 | Eco Parenting, Live Lighter
I’m super delighted to have one of my very good friends join me today to chat about raising healthy kids. Jessica Donovan is a mama of 2, naturopath and holistic health expert that helps families thrive. Jess is passionate about educating parents on nourishing their...
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. 
