by Laura | Oct 1, 2018 | Zero Waste Home
Reduce paper use in and around your home with these simple tips! Throughout August in my Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs membership we shone the light on paper product usage, and we all made an effort to reduce our consumption of paper products in the home. For some,...
by Laura | Jun 7, 2018 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
In this post we uncover the REDcycle story and share how you can easily recycle soft plastics at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. Despite your best attempts to reduce your plastic consumption, it can be difficult to avoid plastics entirely in the modern world and...
by Laura | Dec 22, 2017 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
A few weeks ago I gave you a heads heads up that something very special was in the pipeline….. Well it’s come out the other end I’m I’m so thrilled to share with you that Sustainahome is now open for business! You can check Sustainahome out...
by Laura | Jun 13, 2017 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
I’m changing things up this week! Rather than showcase an interview or a “how to” episode on how to live more sustainably, I thought I’d share some thoughts and reflections with you on what’s going through my head this week as I turn the big 4-0!! Plus, I wanted to...
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...
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. 
