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  What???

  I think your writer needs to visit Fayetteville - my hometown - before attributing our "greenness" to Wal-Mart.
  First, Wal-Mart is headquartered in Bentonville, about 30 mins. north of here. And while I do applaud the steps Wal-Mart has taken to get their eco-stuff together, they still have a long way to go. And if you go to Bentonville and Rogers, where most Wal-Mart corporate staff and vendors live, you'll see the most disgusting examples of sprawl - with miles and miles of McMansions chewing up what used to be farmlands and forests.
  Second, Fayetteville has been a lot greener than most other cities in our state and region for a long time - not that we're perfect. But if you're going to attribute that to anything, it would be the presence of the University of Arkansas and the intellectual & cultural diversity it hosts.
  And as for Dan Coody - he's no environmentalist. He allowed Kohl's (and later, lots of other developers) to totally ignore our limited tree ordinance, and has basically been a lapdog to all developers. The progressives in Fayetteville are working hard to get rid of him.On Wal-Mart's eco-initiatives turning Arkansas into sustainability hotspot posted 1 year, 9 months ago 9 Responses