Greensburg News

Ms. Stroer earned national acclaim for her efforts in Greensburg, Ks. to rebuild into a "green" community after an EF5 tornado devestated the town in 2007.

After a vicious tornado swept through Greensburg, Kansas, city administrator Steve Hewitt emerged from his basement to find nearly every structure in his town of 1,500 people flattened by the storm.

The high design? That has nothing to do with reality. Thata s just architectural self-indulgence.a The greening of architecture is quite a contentious subject.

Winning the first design competition they'd ever entered came as a great surprise to the architects of New York City-based Steven Learner Studio .

Earlier this month I visited Greensburg, Kan., and toured a few of its many green buildings.

Yes, he's blond, blue-eyed handsome and yes, he's talented. But Academy Award-winning Leonardo DiCaprio continually proves he is more than just a pretty face jumping on the celebrity hybrid bandwagon.

Schools in Kiowa County have been closed this week due to illness. Classes at Delmer Day Elementary and Kiowa County Junior High will be dismissed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The Next US ), a yearlong mobile film project aimed at recording stories of economic reinvention in America, is finding and profiling people around the country who are helping forge the next U.S. economy.

Hey, great news a ' the Planet Green channel will produce a third season of its docuseries "Greensburg," to begin airing in May 2010, which will be the third anniversary of the powerful EF-5 tornado that destroyed nearly every building in the Kansas town of 1,300. I've been following the progress in Greensburg for some time now.

Illness is shutting down more Kansas classrooms. According to the USD 422 website, school is cancelled until Friday at two schools: Delmar Day Elementary in Greensburg and the junior high school in Mullinville.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the approval of a $17.4 million loan to Greensburg Wind Farm, LLC, to provide financing for the 10 wind turbine project that will supply power to the community of Greensburg, Kan.

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May 2007, every building in Greensburg, Kan., was leveled. A deadly twister wiped the town of 1,400 off the map.

Two things about hurricanes. At their worst, they're capable of causing deadly destruction and loss of human life.

Noritz America Corp., the official tankless water heater of Brad Pitt's Make It Right project in New Orleans, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 2008-09, and Leonardo di Caprio's rebuilding effort in Greensburg, Kan., has introduced the N-0842MC condensing unit for residential use.

GREENSBURG, Kan. The tornado-ravaged Kansas town of Greensburg is running a global sustainable architecture design competition for new buildings.

This Missouri house has been featured on the ASES National Solar Tour. It incorporates passive solar design , solar water heating, and a 3-kilowatt solar-electric system.

It is no secret that the environment is facing some major challenges. Yet despite all the gloom there are some corners of the world where things are changing for the better.

We're not in Kansas anymore. That's the feeling you get in Greensburg, Kansas, two years after a devastating tornado leveled most of the town and killed eleven people in May of 2007.

On a recent clear night, Greensburg, Kan., Mayor Bob Dixson bent his 6-foot-7 frame in an airborne plane to marvel at what he considered surplus streetlights shining below.