School superintendent Darin Headrick remembers the day the massive 200 mile-an-hour tornado struck his small Kansas community four years ago. His school—along with 95 percent of the town—was blown into a Hiroshima-like pile of rubble by the monster twister. Fortunately the school wasn’t in session at the time, although 11 people lost their lives in the small town. But he wondered what kind of future lay ahead for his students?
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Recently, Darin’s been in touch with the tornado ravaged communities of Tuscaloosa, AL, and Joplin, MO. School officials and business leaders there are eager to learn about the amazing recovery efforts in Greensburg. But Darin says what makes him feel especially good is that local school enrollment is continuing to climb as families are eager to send their kids to a school built with the latest high-tech energy-efficient design.
It’s all part of an amazing green tech revolution that’s sprung up in America’s heartland. The people of Greensburg are proud to be small-town energy-efficient pioneers, building a sustainable future for the world to admire and emulate. After all, the people of Greensburg built their American dream out of the desolate grasslands of the prairie. Building a new clean energy community in the corn and wheat fields of Kansas is not all that different.
Build it and they will come, folks here say. And with each passing day, they are.
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