Here’s our digest of fun and interesting stuff from the web for this short, post-New Year’s week. Have a great weekend!

• Year-end check-up for your company.
• Related: Resolutions of Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie.
• It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record since 1895.
• Bring focus to your landscape design.
• Frost flowers.
• Fail more and fail better.
• Above: Marketing isn’t magic.

Here’s our round-up of the most interesting (and mostly tree-related) stuff from the web this week. Enjoy!

• The world’s oldest trees are disappearing.
• Related: A map of the world’s oldest trees.
• NatGeo sends its photographers to document research on the President in Sequoia National Park.
• Damage to the NYBG from Superstorm Sandy.
• One non-tree thing: Asking great questions.
• Above: Time-lapse of fall in Central Park.

For your reading pleasure, here’s our latest collection of interesting stuff from the web. Have a great weekend!

• The richest metro areas in the United States.
• Top social media trends of 2013.
• Great training opportunity on tap in Colorado from L&L columnist Jim Huston.
• The latest edition of MOWmentum is live! Get it for iOS and Android tablets today.
• Learn how to best use local search.
• 5 invasive plants you can eat. (via Bates Nursery)
• Pantone releases its official color of 2013.
• Above: Bill and Ed discuss the foundation of a plan for profit.

Here’s our weekly collection of interesting stuff from the web. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

• A coast-to-coast tour of America’s greatest landscapes by a newly minted LA grad.
• 35 graphs that show how your spending habits change as you age.
• A tiny arboretum of unsung plants.
• Four questions to ask yourself this winter.
• How plants can detect bombs. (via @BatesNursery)
• IA Confidential, the latest installment from the video team at the Miami-Dade County Extension office. (via Martha Golea)
• The science of email subject lines explained.
• Above: The best video of a weed-fighting superhero that you’ll see today.

Here’s our weekly list of cool and otherwise interesting things from the web. I’ll be out next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so look for more updates after. Enjoy!

• A guide for commercial property owners and managers on the new EPA WaterSense program, and how it can save them water.
• Related: Water savings ad campaign in Denver uses naked people to get its point across. (via the Water Bloggers)
• Deer now vectors for malaria-like disease in New England.
• Sales training for California contractors.
• Landscape lighting to the max.
• Finally, some logical news from Canada’s Left Coast.
• Lessons on Lincoln’s leadership.
• Above: The third issue of MOWmentum is live now in iTunes and on Google Play. Check it out today.

Here’s our collection of interesting things we found on the internet this week. Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

• A visual guide to American employee tenure.
• Demand for water will outstrip supply by 2030. (via @H2Otrends)
• 40 things to say before you die. (via @joecalloway)
• Long read: Flowers in the psych ward.
• New report: Home prices up in many markets.
• Where do multimillionaires live?
• Above: 9 things you can do to stay in the black this year.

Here’s our weekly digest of cool stuff from the web. Enjoy!

• Tips on helping landscapes recover from flooding.
• Zero-turns on Dancing with the Stars. That is all.
• Very cool program for Spanish speakers in the Denver area. (via CoCal Landscape)
• Best and worst vehicles for insurance claims and injuries.
• Brooklyn’s Weeping Elm.
• Above: Next time your in Vegas, call up Zappos. They’ll pick you up for a free tour of their new HQ.

Here’s our weekly digest of interesting and useful links from around the web. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

• Retail spending is slow, but people are still spending.
• 50 years of LED tech. (via @Carolyn LaWell)
• Lichens!
• Related: Reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial drained due to algae invasion.
• Science makes it true: To be more productive, watch cat videos on the internet.
• London wants its own High Line, but underground.
• Above: Water rates are going up. They won’t stop. (via CLCA)

Here’s our weekly digest of fun and interesting stuff from the world of the web. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

• Property managers have the happiest jobs in America. (via @austinoutdoor)
• Related: Surprising (to some) six-figure jobs.
• ValleyCrest channels L. Frank Baum in Los Angeles.
• Housing reports are too sunny. (via @jasoncupp)
• How to store hand-held equipment.
• How Americans are distributed around Starbucks.
• Above: Rick Brandenberg: Turf, bugs and rock and roll at NCSU.

• What’s college for if not pranking the administration with bat guano?
• “Biomechanical trebuchets.” (via: New York Botanical Garden’s Tumblr)
• 4 leading botanical gardens to create first online catalog of all plants. (via @BatesNursery)
• Why efficiency won’t solve our water problems. (via @waterguru2)
• How to: reboot a terrible voicemail. (via @jasoncupp)
• Above: Environmental Business Award winner Mark Halla explains why and how he built a wind turbine at his Minnesota headquarters.