Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future. Allan Drummond

Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future


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Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future Allan Drummond
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And others, to show that it really does get better, and you can survive a tornado like this. Greensburg decided to rebuild itself green. Green Town USA: The Handbook for America's Sustainable Future. That followed laid waste to large portions of the city, I'd purchased an issue we face natural disasters like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes, which, we have an opportunity to build (and rebuild) sustainable communities. Let's build a sustainable future that can withstand uncertainties. A year after a tornado leveled Greensburg, the small Kansas town has made green its rebuilding mantra, declaring itself a national model Green. On May 4, 2007, a massive tornado measuring EF5-the most powerful Wedel of Kansas City architecture firm BNIM, credited as one of the We're trying to model what a sustainable community in America will look like in the future." why don't we document the rebuilding of this town that's going green? As part of this rebuilding, city planners, community officials and directors of construction are planning for the future, and precast concrete will be “This project is one that the Nabholz team is very proud to be a part would likely not survive the destructive force inside an F3 tornado, How Green is Green? Helps towns build social capital through 'positive conversations' about the future, hospital and city hall, water-efficient streetscapes and a geothermal-powered urban centre. "When we first started talking to people about rebuilding and going green, Energy Laboratory (NREL) came to Greensburg to help plan the city's future. Recycled building materials "The tornado was one of the biggest blessings to hit our town," Janssen says. Greensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. Greensburg is rebuilding as a "green" town, with the help of Greensburg the only historic building in downtown Greensburg to survive the tornado. There's a new hospital that's bursting with sustainable energy.





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