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September 25, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- abandoned, automobiledependence, carlinville, community, sprawl, vacantproperty, wal-mart, walmart
All across the country, communities have been struggling with what to do with their abandoned Walmarts. Hundreds of the giant chain's stores have now become decaying, empty big boxes parked on asphalt in one town after another. In most...continued→
August 11, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- automobiledependence, bigboxstores, parking, sprawl, wal-mart
A lot, the giant company apparently thinks. But not as much as they think, say the facts:12:30 pm, Buncombe County, south of Asheville, NC, last week (August 6)For a startling depiction of the company's spread across the American landscape, see...continued→
March 19, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- bigboxstores, sprawl, sustainability, wal-mart
I've been pretty hard on Wal-Mart and, believe me, they've earned it with their land-use practices. I awarded them my Thanksgiving turkey and then followed up with my despair over a news story touting their sustainability efforts.The problem with most...continued→