12 April 2017 Landscape and Irrigation www.landscapeirrigation.com
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
PHOTOS
AND
GRAPHIC
PROVIDED
BY
HUSQVARNA
■ BY WALT ROSE
When you imagine the future of your landscaping business,
what do you envision? A drone that delivers replacement parts
from your equipment truck to landscapers on the job? Quiet,
eco-friendly tools that keep your team working alongside
homeowners and their neighbors? These technologies may seem
distant now, but they're the type of innovation that the parks of
the future will demand.
As with the current state of most things in the U.S., the future
of the landscaping industry is uncertain — but it is surely green.
Green spaces have always been more than just backyards and
baseball fields. They're places where communities gather, city-
dwellers unwind and tourists visit. That's not likely to change
anytime soon.
Take the Boston Common, for instance. Established in 1634,
the Common bills itself as America's oldest public park. Its
grounds have seen the training exercises of revolutionary troops;
the sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.; and throngs
of visitors, numbering in the hundreds of thousands each year.
Whether it's the Boston Common, Manhattan's Central Park,
Chicago's Humboldt Park, or the local playground in your
neighborhood, parks have been, and always will be, central to the
way Americans live their daily lives.
Creating parks for the future
It's the landscaping industry's mission to maintain those
parks, and to do so responsibly. In 2015, the United Nations
challenged countries around the world to work toward a set of
17 sustainable development goals. Those goals include ending
poverty and hunger, providing high-quality education, and
building sustainable communities. The landscaping industry
may not educate the world's children, but we can do our part to
make cities more sustainable.
Embrace
the Future
of Green
Spaces and
Landscaping
Technology
