by Laura | Apr 11, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
(image credit: Jess Leask) In this Eco Chat I catch up with Samantha Reynolds of ECOCEAN on whale sharks, conservation and following your dreams. Do you have a long-held dream to work in science or sustainability but have yet to taken the plunge? If that’s the...
by Laura | Apr 6, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
In this off-the-cuff chat I reflect on my recent expedition to Antarctica and my involvement in the Homeward Bound Program. Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe in iTunes (also available in Spotify) My experience on board with the 80-odd other women in STEMM was...
by Laura | Mar 15, 2018 | Conscious Business, Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe in iTunes (also available in Spotify) As you may be aware, I’ve spent the past 3 weeks on a ship in Antarctica with 77 other female scientists, all participating in the Homeward Bound program. To say the experience has been life...
by Laura | Jun 27, 2017 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
Today, I’m sharing an interview that, retail strategist and host of the Bringing Business to Retail Podcast, Salena Knight did with me last week. She is chatting with me and asking me a heap of questions about my upcoming trip to Antarctica. I thought it would be...
by Laura | Jun 20, 2017 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
It’s time we humans took a long hard look at ourselves and how we’re living. In this post I touch on why we need to stop acting like we have a Planet B. Plus I share a small action that you can do today to ensure we’ll never need a Planet B. Podcast: Play in new...
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. 
