by Laura | May 24, 2016 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
It’s one of the trendiest foods on the wellness scene and takes pride of place in the centre of most foodie’s kitchen tables. But it’s far from being the clean, natural product we’re led to believe it’s actually quite the opposite. Today I’m chatting about what...
by Laura | Apr 5, 2016 | Live Lighter, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
7 Reasons to Keep Chickens Well hasn’t this past week been a storm in an egg cup!! If you’re in Australia and have been following the media recently you’ve no doubt noticed all the kerfuffle over eggs. Supermarket chains selling caged eggs have come under fire and the...
by Laura | Mar 22, 2016 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
If you love eating food and you have a social conscience, then today’s post is for you. I’m talking wholefoods and how you can cook for a cause!!! Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe In iTunes If you read my recent feature on fluoride in drinking water...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2016 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
I’m always looking for ways to use up excess zucchinis as when they’re in season in our garden, we pick multiple zucchinis a day! These grain-free, dairy-free and refined-sugar free zucchini and cacao muffins are deliciously moist and guilt free too, not to mention...
by Laura | Feb 23, 2016 | Conscious Business, Eco Parenting, Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
Monica Meldrum, the founder of Whole Kids is on a mission to nurture healthy kids and a healthy world. Following an extensive corporate career in the construction industry, Monica travelled to Indonesia with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in 2000...
by Laura | Feb 15, 2016 | Sustainable Eating
It’s crazy that many of our diets these days are so void in real food that we are literally running on empty. Instead we are filling up on nutrient depleted, highly processed foods that are leaving us overweight, tired and unhealthy. Food manufacturers have...
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. 
