by Laura | Apr 4, 2017 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
Given that the average woman only tends to wear around 20% of what’s in her wardrobe and buys the same pieces over and over, I thought it would be a great idea to unpack sustainable style on the blog and podcast this week. And the perfect stylist to help you discover...
by Laura | Mar 28, 2017 | Zero Waste Home
This month has all been about Minimalist March in my Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs membership community, and so many of us have been making an effort to get on top of clutter in our homes and lives, and learn to live with less. For some of us, it’s been a bit of a...
by Laura | Mar 21, 2017 | Zero Waste Home
It’s Minimalist March in my Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs community and we’re all encouraging each other to declutter our homes, live with less, and become conscious consumers. As we’re moving house at the end of this year, and don’t want to move a heap of stuff we...
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 7, 2017 | Chemical Free Living, Zero Waste Home
So you’ve been trying hard to eat clean and reduce the additives and toxins in your diet, but are you cleaning clean? In this blog episode I’ll introduce the concept of “Clean Cleaning” with you and share how cleaning with foods is the best waste-free, safe, and...
by Laura | Dec 20, 2016 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
Given we’re smack bang in the middle of party season I wanted to check in with you and raise the topic of ecotaining. When I talk about ecotaining I’m referring to the process of keeping the environment in mind when you entertain your friends and family. In a nutshell...
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. 
