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.

• 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.

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)

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.

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)