by Laura | Nov 7, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
What is the most sustainable meat? If you choose to eat meat, and you care for the environment and care for your own health, I bet you’ve wondered “what is the best meat to eat”? It’s a question I’m asked a lot, particularly by my Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs...
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 | 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 | Jan 31, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating
It’s little surprise that the foods we eat impact our environment. Whether it be high food miles, large amounts of water or chemicals used to produce the food, land degradation caused by food production, or resources used to process and package the food and transport...
by Laura | Dec 6, 2016 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
With less than a month until Christmas, many of us are now starting to plan for a Christmas feast of sorts! If you’re like most of us, you’ll probably over cater. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this article I’m chatting about Christmas leftovers and how we can...
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. 
