For your reading pleasure this weekend I’ve got a few articles about snow, how Google works and some fantastic images of botanic gardens from around the world. Enjoy!

• Dust from Africa impacts snowfall in California. (via CLCA)
• Related: Thin snowpack out west points to summer drought.
• Tech’s best feature: the off switch. (h/t Warren Gorowitz)
• How Google works.
• Landscape designers have the best offices. (h/t Shayne Newman)
• The rise of the new sharing economy.
• Interesting Q&A with Travis Beck, NYBG’s Landscape and Gardens Project Manager and author of “Principles of Ecological Landscape Design.” (via NYBG)
• Above: Best botanic gardens in the world.

Here’s our weekly digest of articles, images and generally cool stuff from the web. Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

• Build your sales pipeline.
• Using sound to build a garden.
• Native plant bingo with CLCA.
• How to irrigate a slope.
• Bummer: Why trees can’t grow taller than 300 feet.
• Employee addiction.
• They’ve got a bit of universe conflation here, but this is pretty good.
• Above: GIFs of plant leaves withering.

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)