Thank you to all of our friends, family, clients and business associates who came by to help us welcome EcoTerra into the world.  It was great to see all of you.  Your support is so important to us.

Welcome to the Earth Day 2009 EcoTerra Properties blog. My name is Trudy Kalush, I am the CEO of EcoTerra Properties & Investments. The first eco-centric real estate company in the greater Long Beach area, and I am all about everything that is real estate and/or green!

I am so proud to be a part of the generation that is finally getting it. We have carried on in our wasteful, gluttonous, unhealthful ways for too long. As a proud American, I have enjoyed the fruits of our country’s success. I have had all the trappings of “success”. A huge home, gadgets of every sort, a pair of shoes for each day of the year! I have eaten every new and improved processed food. I have been caught up in the “American” way of life…the best way of life. If my nails were short I bought longer ones, if my skin was too light I bought a tan, and I’ve owned every beauty product known to man, each in a little plastic bottle. I’ve had more cable channels than I could ever imagine and a TV in every room. I had whiter whites and bigger everythings. After all we are the most advanced, intelligent, successful society on the planet right…or are we.

Shortly after my son was born I started to look around with a new perspective. What I saw was troubling. We were wasting, polluting & using things up at a record pace. Our oceans dying, our forests disappearing, our water barely drinkable. What was going to be left for my son???? Panic set in. A desperation that I have never felt. I must do something…..NOW. My highest priority was to make things better for my son.

So here I am. I am the dandelion seed that is going to be a little yellow flower in your yard. I will spread my eco-seed into every crevace that I can find.