Posted on 05/12/2007 5:08:23 PM PDT by bugman
TOPEKA - Talk of a future Greensburg turned this week to visions of green.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she and the town's mayor, Lonnie McCollum, have discussed the town rebuilding as an environmental model community, with renewable power, energy-efficient buildings and other possibilities.
Rep. Dennis McKinney, D-Greensburg, added that planning should include high-tech aspects that help the town attract young families and new business.
A statewide architect group has volunteered to aid Greensburg as it plans to rebuild. Now a contingent of Wichita architects say they are willing to share expertise in environmentally sustainable design.
The town has the name to fit the image, Sebelius said of "green" ideas starting to emerge as residents continue to clear away tons of rubble from the May 4 monster storm.
"We have the opportunity of having the greenest town in rural America," the governor said at a Thursday press conference.
Chris Kliewer, president of the Wichita chapter of the American Institute of Architects, said his organization would pitch in.
"It seems that, starting from scratch, this is something people can get excited about," said Kliewer, of Wilson Darnell Mann Architects. "It could give them a sense of hope of doing something different."
And it offers a "clean slate" for planners, he said, who wouldn't have to wrestle with retrofitting older buildings for efficiency.
Rural residents are often more efficiency-minded than urbanites anyway, Kliewer added.
"It could give them something to be remembered for, more than this tornado."
(Excerpt) Read more at hutchnews.com ...
“I guess the people who can’t afford to live that way will just have to move?”
Yeah, they’ll be in the way of liberal progress.
First they suffer one of nature’s most destructive forces. Now this. Haven’t they suffered enough?
It will end up costing them more than they will ever know...
I imagine it will also delay rebuilding.
Let me guess....Sept-Feb???...you know, the months without tornados?
I can't imagine loosing everything you own and watching politicians use your misery to score points.
Carpetbaggers are like a bad cold.
You just can’t seem to get rid of them.
demonstrating that the "Mother Nature" so adored by the greens is not kindly and protecting but a cruel practitioner of infanticide.
If you thought the “Big Dig” was a taxpayer boondoggle, just watch this develop.
I read 2 articles and a letter-to-the-editor in today’s Salina (KS) Journal about how Greenburg should be rebuilt as a “green” model city, but there wasn’t a word about just exactly how this would be done. The only mention of any sort of “green” behavior was the use of re-cycled building materials. Since the whole town has been turned into a pile of used building materials, that would be obvious.
This should serve as an example of why NOT to elect a Democrat to state or national office. You have a disaster and they want to set up a utopian socialist state.
With kind of leadership from Sibelius we will end up two years from now where they are in NO...a festering dump.
wind turbines for 200mph winds?
With 1 Trillion dollars in federal grants we can save our citizens money in the long run.......
LOL! Exactly my thoughts!
Their livelihood depends on taking care of the soil, managing the game, controlling pests, etc. They don't have the money to spend on wasting energy, nor are they inclined to do so even if they did.
There is little more the people can do which makes practical, economically justifiable sense to better preserve and protect their environment.
Bottom line - this article is nothing more than more enviro-BS.
I wonder if the New Greensburg will have same-sex rest rooms and be smoke free?
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