by Laura | Mar 11, 2019 | Energy and Water Efficient Home, Global Environmental Issues, Sustainable Eating
If you’re concerned about our changing climate and are wondering what you can do to make a difference, this post is for you. I’ll be sharing eight things you can do to help address climate change. Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe in iTunes (also in Spotify and...
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 23, 2017 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
All too often I hear of people who are running their dream self-sufficient home, but it’s become a nightmare. They’re working around the house and garden more than ever, are stressed out, and what was fun and exciting when they started out has become a chore and a big...
by Laura | May 16, 2017 | Eco Mindset, Live Lighter
If you’re wanting to live a more self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle, it’s likely you’ll need to break some old, bad habits and replace them with new, sustainable living habits. But how do you break a bad habit? In this post I’ll explain why bad habits are...
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...
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. 
