Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future (Green Power)

My son school teacher recommended this book and he loves reading it

I am using this book as part of my 2nd grade curriculum. We build a city in my classroom. This book inspired me to make our city sustainable this year. The students were really inspired by this story especially since it is told through the eyes of a child.

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7 year old grandson loves the book

Real story for teamwork

Citizens thoughtfully rebuild their city after a tornado nearly destroys it. It becomes one of the greenest cities in the country. This book shows how problems can be used to create positive change when people work together. This story told in first-person is based on actual events in Greensburg Kansas. It also contains sidebar bits of factual information and illustrations. This is a great story that opens discussion for going green, being resourceful, solving problems, and sustainability.

Wonderful, true story of a rural community coming together to rebuild after a genuine catastrophe. Not only rebuilding their community but rethinking their carbon footprint in the process and choosing to take a most constructive path.

When a tornado completely wiped out Greensboro, KS, the town decided to capitalize on the green part of their name and rebuild as green as possible. They rebuilt homes that would conserve energy and water, use natural resources, and incorporated reclaimed and recycled materials as much as possible.An interesting true story about recovery from a natural disaster and various different approaches families and companies took to go green. I like the practical ways kids are encouraged to save energy. I grew up in a unique atmosphere as my dad is a heating and cooling engineer so he taught us from the time we were little several of these techniques to save energy, and to make sure your house is more energy efficient. I never took the time to think before about how most kids don't learn such things from their fathers. This is a good book for those kids who don't grow up with heating/cooling engineer fathers.

7.5 year old KS2 schooling