In 2007, a massive tornado touched down in the south-central Kansas town of Greensburg, destroying 95% of the town and killing 11 people. It could easily have been the end of the 1,400-resident rural ...

About: A decade ago, a tornado wiped out the small town of Greensburg, Kansas. But the town decided to rebuild—as a totally green community. Ten years out, has the green rebuilding program been ...

Greensburg, Kansas, built a new, environmentally friendly, high-tech high school after being hit by a massive tornado in 2007. But the town has barely half the population it did before the twister ...

On May 4, 2007, an enormous tornado nearly wiped Greensburg, Kansas, off the map. What happened next was almost a laboratory experiment in re-engineering the classic American small town. Like the ...

The mayor of Greensburg guides the city-leased hybrid Ford Escape around a corner and pulls to a stop. "Wow, I hadn't seen this," he says. "Another new home going in." Two years after an EF-5 tornado ...

Claude “Claudy” Hopkins always seemed to have a smile on his face, family members say, and he loved adventure. The Hopkins roots ran deep in Greensburg: Claude’s grandfather, Cash, was one of the town ...

After the tornado, the community gathered together and drafted a plan to rebuild, which included the commitment to build up to LEED Platinum standards and become a model green town for the future.

Daniel Wallach is the executive director and founder of Greensburg GreenTown. This photo was taken inside the nearly completed Silo Eco Home. Outside, near the Greensburg GreenTown office. In the ...

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