by Laura | Sep 28, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
If you have a pantry that’s brimming with food, much of which that’s been sitting there for a while. Or if you regularly find yourself tossing out stale or soiled food from your pantry, then this post is for you. I’m chatting about simple actions you can take to...
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 | Mar 25, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
Preserving fruit helps to capture the flavours of summer to enjoy all year round …. without the tinned food flavour and without the BPA from the tins’ lining. I preserve peaches and other summer fruits like apricots in jars in a very light sugar syrup, so the...
by Laura | Sep 6, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
Have you ever looked around your kitchen and wondered if all the containers, pots and pans are impacting your health? Maybe you’ve eaten Teflon in your stir-fry that was cooked in a wok that once upon a time was non-stick, or you’ve eaten a mouthful of melted plastic...
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...
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. 
