Landscapes Are Infrastructure: The Landscape Industry’s Role in Climate Resilience

In this episode of SYNKD On Air, Angelique Robb reads from America’s Landscapes Are Climate Infrastructure Hiding in Plain Sight, an article featuring her perspective on the critical role landscape professionals can play in creating more resilient communities.From stormwater management and healthy soils to plant selection, heat reduction and long-term maintenance, landscapes can do far more than look beautiful. But realizing their full potential means bringing landscape architects, designers, contractors and horticultural professionals into the conversation earlier—and working alongside engineers, planners and other disciplines.Angelique also explores a principle at the heart of SYNKD: Design + Build + Maintain must work together. Creating resilient landscapes requires thinking beyond installation to how a landscape will perform, evolve and be maintained for decades to come.It’s time to make the green industry’s contribution more visible—and recognize landscape professionals as an essential part of building more resilient communities.Here's the published articles:Valiant CEO - Angelique RobbCEO Monthly - Angelique Robb