Going green helps disaster stricken communities look ahead.
Anyone with a TV is familiar with the tragic results of 2005′s hurricane Katrina for New Orleans or the 2011 tsunami that inundated about 561 square kilometers of Japan. And if this past summer’s record breaking drought in the U.S. isn’t evidence enough, recent studies have have found evidence that climate change will bring increasing devastation to urban areas around the globe. However, once the media frenzy over these disasters subsides, the rebuilding work goes largely unreported. In New Orleans and Northern Japan, many building managers turned tragedy into an opportunity to rebuild these communities into something better with environmentally sustainable, energy efficient building strategies.
