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Weekly round-up
Here’s our weekly digest of fun stuff we found online, now with more robots. Have a great weekend.
- Small, once-a-day marketing can be more powerful than a big, one-time only blow-out.
- 4 alternatives to leaving your business to your kids.
- We’ve got some whitepapers on engines, water management and holiday lighting. Check them out.
- The Case-Shiller Home Price Index by metro area.
- Above: With apologies to Lee Majors, the WSJ brings you the peak time for everything.
Weekly round-up
Here’s our digest of cool stuff that will make you smarter. Enjoy your reading, and we’ll see you Monday.
- A great guide to designing outdoor rooms. (via @belgard)
- The latest research on equipment theft in America.
- The man behind Pinterest.
- ASLA has released a beautiful interactive guide to D.C. parks.
- What West Nile is doing to people in Texas.
- Science has confirmed: Summer was hot.
- Above: 60 years of American economic history in one graph.
Weekly round-up
Here’s our weekly digest of cool and interesting stuff. Happy reading, and we’ll see you next week!
- It’s now cheaper to buy than rent in America’s top 100 markets.
- See also: Trulia’s 2012 rent vs. buy report.
- New stats on who’s using smartphones.
- Also: New stats on online photo sharing.
- How office park landscapes can reduce water use. (via @BldgOpMgmt)
- Thinking about supermodels.
- Amazon fungi: Making it rain.
- Above: What you need to know about gross margins from the Harvest Group.
Weekly round-up

Here’s our digest of cool and interesting stuff from the web. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
- How to rank high in Google Places.
- Restaurants track their customers’ preferences. Creepy? Yes. Effective? Also yes.
- It’s almost time to reseed. Know your grasses. (via @FMCturf)
- Innovative parks in D.C. and L.A.
- Above: Al Aire, a floating hydroponic greenhouse in Venice. (via Bates Nursery)
Weekly round-up
Here’s our round-up of the most interesting stuff from the web. Enjoy your long weekend. We’ll see you back here Tuesday.
- Home prices show promise in 20 markets.
- The summer drought’s impact on the Mississippi, from the air.
- Baby busters.
- The best way to share stories on Facebook. (via @BaderRutter)
- 2012 is the worst year for West Nile virus. Ever.
- Millenials are the cheapest generation.
- American homes, while smaller, are still giant.
- Three simple questions that could change the world.
- Above: A brief history of the brief history of viral videos.
Weekly round-up
Here’s our weekly digest of interesting stuff from the web. Have a great weekend!
- Google offers great benefits, including paying your family after you die.
- Weekend read: “The Art of the Sale.”
- Hipsters continue summer tradition of renting lawns.
- Landscape lighting as high art.
- How not to ask for customer feedback. (via @Bader_Rutter)
- Now this is a fifth room.
- Above: 5 ways to save fuel. (via Wright Mowers)
Weekly round-up
Here’s your weekend reading list. Enjoy!
- Olympic landscaping.
- Job openings are at their highest levels in four years.
- A dealer on what Tier 4 means to you. (via @johndeere)
- Broadleaf weed primer. (via @fmcturf)
- How to get the most from your home and garden show exhibitions.
- Related: How to work a trade show.
- Above: D&K outlines its quarterly gardning srevices for the southwest.
Weekly round-up
Here’s our digest of the most interesting stuff for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy!
- New research on how plants grow. (via @BatesNursery)
- Success can mean lying to yourself.
- New PLANET safety training you should check out.
- How much we make and what we spend it on.
- Why entrepreneurs (and other creative types) like to hang out together.
- Above: Roger Phelps on how a set of chaps saved his life.
Weekly round-up
Here’s our weekly digest of cool stuff from the web. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
- Give this list to your foremen.
- “The complement to the brilliant strategy is the thankless work of lower-leverage detail.“
- A guide to commercial property leasing practices from CBRE.
- An update on trends in outdoor furniture.
- Awesome vertical gardens.
- Above: Linkedin now lets companies use targeted status updates. (via @chris_heiler)
Weekly round-up
Here’s our round-up for the week.
- How some firms game Yelp reviews.
- 10 largest green roofs worldwide. See also: Our 2011 Green Roof Guide.
- Economic power of top U.S. cities, 1978 to now.
- Learn how to tumblr from Mr. Tumblr himself. Related: Bates Nursery is killing it on Tumblr.
- Above: Living wall installation at the Plaza Hotel in New York. (via @PIAgrows)
