“Finally, you are fairly critical of LEED, saying there are too many LEED platinum buildings in the middle of nowhere that people then need to drive to – this is the result of “LEED brain,” a myopic focus on prerequisities and credits. How would you like to see LEED, LEED-Neighborhood Development (ND), Sustainable Sites Initiative, and other important rating systems, evolve? Do they need to incorporate population density differently?”

Link to whole article here FROM ASLA DIRT

Tomorrow I start to squeeze.

Squeeze the juice out of this opportunity. What is the opportunity?

At minimum connectivity of sales team to the back office. At maximum a real time looking glass in to all aspects of the business.

Actually the best scenario would be the ability to market every hair brain scheme I have and execute it.

Peace

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Howdy All,

I am traveling to San Mateo Sunday to begin training on NETSUITE essentials.  The class is Monday through Friday from 9-5. Look forward to checking out the corporate culture, meeting my account rep and most importantly learning.

Peace

ARTOBRICK, TV, Flat Screen, Thin Brick, ARTO

Yes, if I had the ad money I would do something like this. For your staycation you need to frame your new big screen TV in your new media room with ARTOBRICK.

Peace

My father on the path of creating Brick Veneer (thin brick) had a lot of influence from ceramics.  The first ARTO products were ceramic, extruded clay tile, very thin and put into commercial kilns. As a kid there seem to be a hundred kilns all lined up. There was probably only 20 or so.  My father kept on the path towards concrete and brought with him the aesthetics and art of ceramics.

I do find Ceramics nostalgic. It is among my first memories of my father.

All this to say a good friend of mine is having a show & sale on the 11th. His name is Doug Blechner (dougblechner.com)

Blechner Pot

Designer Ryan Brown has a fan and friend of ARTO for many years now.  Recently his home was featured in the Los Angeles Times along with the ARTO Roman Pavers in Early Gray that make up his garden path and pool coping.

(Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)

Interior designer Ryan Brown, known as the voice of reason on the Bravo reality series “Flipping Out,” has made a living buying ugly duckling properties, turning them into beauties and selling them for profit. But as fans of “Flipping Out” know, Brown and his domestic partner, chef Dale Monchamp, had a daughter through a surrogate and wanted to put down roots. Two years ago they bought a 1942 two-story stucco house in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles

The yard was relandscaped to include a mosaic tile pool, an organic vegetable garden and a lawn with a concrete paver path from Arto Brick in Gardena. With extensive changes inside and out, the tab for renovations came to about $700,000. “I did it as inexpensively as possible to use the materials I wanted,” Brown says, adding that without his industry sources the cost would have run $1 million.

www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-0815-brown-pictures,0,3234541.photogallery

Kind of a bummer when I found out one of our competitors  is “DOLE”. I will still eat those pineapples.

Mistake seems a bit more innocent. There is grace extended to someone when you say they made a mistake.

When you release a bad guy from jail is that a mistake or wrong?

LA COUNTY released a bad guy because of a paper work mix up is a mistake.

Releasing a murderer is Wrong