by Laura | May 1, 2022 | Global Environmental Issues
In 2018, after experiencing Sweden’s hottest summer on record, a 15-year-old Greta Thunberg protested alone outside the Swedish parliament with a sign saying “School Strike for Climate”, to pressure her government to meet carbon emission targets. Within a few short...
by Laura | Jun 22, 2021 | Global Environmental Issues
What were you doing when you were 20 years old? Perhaps you were already working full time or were studying hard for a professional career. Maybe you were enjoying a gap year backpacking around a foreign country. Regardless of whether you were working, studying or...
by Laura | May 28, 2021 | Eco Parenting, Global Environmental Issues
There’s no denying that the effects of climate change will be felt the most by people who have contributed the least to the crisis. The younger generation, our children and grandchildren, will inherit a world vastly different to the one we all grew up in. It breaks my...
by Laura | Sep 1, 2019 | Energy and Water Efficient Home, Global Environmental Issues
Are you curious about what the Council Climate Emergency Declaration movement entails? Want to understand what difference it actually makes to the climate crisis? Keen to know how you can get your local council to lead in climate action? If that’s you,...
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. 
