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...Tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday stroll to church. Ron Shank, owner of the Kansas town's General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in their basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, took shelter in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...
...ones. In early January, the city council approved a plan that would make all public buildings in Greensburg conform to the platinum rating of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design) standards--something no American town has ever tried. Ron Shank's car dealership will be rebuilt as a model green facility...
...Agent Frederick Gutt told TIME he considers the arsons "potential domestic terrorism" and said this was the fourth such ELF-linked burning of new homes in Washington State since 2004. Other ELF-linked acts in recent years have targeted housing developments in California and New York, and an SUV dealership in Oregon...
...tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday walk to church. Ron Shank, the owner of the Kansas town's only General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in the basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, sheltered in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...
...early January, the city council approved a plan that would make all public buildings in Greensburg conform to the Platinum rating of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) standards - something no town in the America has ever tried. Ron Shank's car dealership, which had been close to closing, will be rebuilt as a model green facility for GM, and Google is even thinking of opening a wind-powered data center nearby. "I think it's going to be a permanent draw," says John Janssen, the town's current mayor. "We're going...