by Laura | Sep 4, 2015 | Zero Waste Home
I’ve been an environmentalist for over 20 years and for the most part I’ve accepted that everyone is at a different level in their eco awareness. No-one likes a preaching greenie, so I’ve always aimed to inspire, gently educate, and lead by example...
by Laura | Jul 15, 2015 | Chemical Free Living, Zero Waste Home
Plastic Free July is a great cause that challenges you to say no to single-use plastic throughout the month of July (and then by the end of the month it should be habit)! The vast amounts of plastic in our environment are not only causing havoc to our wildlife,...
by Laura | Nov 24, 2014 | Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
Like you, I’m always extra busy at this time of the year. In this current 3 week period we have three dance concerts to attend (and perform in!), kindy break up, a son’s birthday party, 20 year school reunion interstate, hubby’s usual cricket...
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 | Nov 14, 2012 | Zero Waste Home
Shop-at-home parties can be alot of fun but can easily lead us into buying items we don’t need. Here’s a few tips on how to survive the party plan silly season. The pre-Christmas shop-at-home parties are in full swing in our town; I’ve been to...
by Laura | Aug 24, 2012 | Zero Waste Home
Like many parents of young children, our weekends are often spent socialising with the under three crowd at birthday parties. Given our eldest son creates more paintings and drawings than our fridge could ever display, we reuse these as giftwrap. It’s just one...
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. 
