What we're doing well: green grows central Arkansas: challenges presented by environmental change and concerns require solutions that involve local governments, nonprofit organizations, private developers and residents. Here, we highlight a few of the ongoing eco-friendly efforts made by these groups.

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What we're doing well: green grows central Arkansas: challenges presented by environmental change and concerns require solutions that involve local governments, nonprofit organizations, private developers and residents. Here, we highlight a few of the ongoing eco-friendly efforts made by these groups.

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DEFINING THE PROBLEMS

Jim McKenzie, executive director of Metroplan, a council of central Arkansas governments, says the three main environmental issues are global warming, the end of cheap oil and the scarcity of critical natural resources, particularly water. "We do crystal ball stuff here. We do long-range planning. These are some long-range issues that all our communities are going to have to be dealing with," he says. The crystal ball-gazers have a name for...

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