>From JT Vaughn's latest blog posting: "When we are motivated by faith, hope and love, and when we trust that God is the one who makes things grow, we should have the courage to step out of the boat, even when the seas are rough. Christians must be prepared and willing to take on challenges that appear too risky or difficult to the outside world. Just as Peter was willing to step out of the boat when Jesus called (Matthew 14:22-32), we too must be attentive to His call and willing to act. And, as Jesus reminds Peter, we need not lose faith, even if it is dark and the seas are rough, *“You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”*
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com>wrote: > Quite fascinating. Like Rossi, Tom Darden has been intimately involved in > repurposing industrial contaminated waste as something useful. Kindred > souls? Something more? Fellow con artists? You decide. > > "HISTORY > > In 1984, a group of investors including Tom Darden purchased four brick > plants and merged them to form Cherokee Sanford Group (CSG), which grew to > become the largest privately held brick manufacturer in North America. When > we discovered petroleum-contaminated soil at one of the plant sites, the > regulators suggested taking the impaired soil to a nearby landfill. As an > alternative, CSG proposed mixing it with clean clay in the brick-making > process. The combustion in the kilns burned up the fuel oil in the soil. > From this beginning, CSG started a business of receiving contaminated clay > from underground storage tank clean-ups. By 1990, CSG was the largest soil > remediator in the mid-Atlantic region, eventually cleaning up nearly 15 > million tons of contaminated material. > > Tom Darden and John Mazzarino formed the predecessor company of Cherokee > in 1993 to focus exclusively on environmentally impaired assets. In 1994 > they organized a risk management advisory affiliate and then formed > Cherokee's first institutional capital (Fund I) in 1996. Cherokee formed a > $250 million private equity fund (Fund II) in 1998, a $620 million fund > (Fund III) in 2002, and its current, $1.2 billion fund (Fund IV) in 2005. > " > > >
