by Laura | Aug 2, 2017 | Zero Waste Home
Today I’m sharing three everyday plastic habits to kick to reduce the amount of plastics you consume and in turn, help the environment. If you didn’t jump on board the Plastic Free July movement, or you did and found yourself overwhelmed, this post is for you!...
by Laura | Jul 18, 2017 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter, Zero Waste Home
Laura chats with A Plastic Ocean film maker Craig Leeson on how plastics in our oceans are impacting our environment and health. The Plastic Free July movement is sweeping Australia and for very good reason. Our obsession with plastics, particularly single-use...
by Laura | May 30, 2017 | Zero Waste Home
In a world where famine and hunger are a daily battle for millions of people, the need to reduce food waste, and indeed the concept of food waste, can be difficult to comprehend. However the statistics on the volumes of food wasted are alarming. Roughly one third of...
by Laura | May 11, 2017 | Eco Parenting, Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
Do you meal plan? *yawn* I know, I once felt that way too. I thought meal planning and an organised kitchen belonged to those “perfect on the surface” mums in their super-neat display homes. Not a creative, messy mum like me. Back in the years BC (before children) I...
by Laura | Apr 25, 2017 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
Last week we heard from Melinda Tually from Fashion Revolution who shared many of the social and environmental issues of the fashion industry with us…as well as some tips for how you can make a difference by asking your favourite fashion brands “who made my clothes?”...
by Laura | Apr 18, 2017 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
If you’re a bit of a mindless consumer when you’re out, shopping and buying lots of new clothing and accessories for your wardrobe, well this week we’re going to change all that. Hopefully we are going to turn you into a more conscious consumer when it comes to...
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. 
