AR Times: “Northwest Arkansas is my home as well, and we compared our distinct critiques and discomforts about the world’s largest retailer and the role it played in shaping the worlds we live in. Bart’s writing on Walmart shows a company whose founder, Sam Walton, played up and played in the natural environment of the Ozarks, and used it to his business advantage, even as the company’s business practices helped create what we now think of as the “Amazon economy,” whose ethos of cheap at any cost contributes to climate change and ecological devastation around the world—including in the Ozarks.
A few months later, the Southern Foodways Alliance commissioned a short film based on his book, and Bart and filmmaker Ethan Payne asked if I’d tag along. The 8-minute film captures Bart’s research on the environmental consequences of Walmart’s business practices and my own work on how Walmart and the Walton family have shaped Northwest Arkansas in their image.”