Rebuilding

10 Green Building Questions To Ask Your Contractor

Earth911 | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Eco-Building, Contractors, Video, Green House, Green-Living, Rebuilding, Green Building, Green Contractors, Construction, Green Living, Sustainable Building, Eco-Construction, Remodeling, Green News

From Earth911's Alexis Petru: Planning a home improvement project this spring? Whether you’re simply painting a room or undertaking an entire...

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A Journey to 1000

Gary A. Officer | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Veteran's Day, Wounded Warrior, Heroes at Home, Homes for Our Troops, Rebuilding, Joining Forces, Veterans, Rebuilding Together, Impact News

Our first step began Army Specialist Ryan C. Major. In 2006, Specialist Major suffered severe wounds from an IED. Upon his return home, his mother agonized about the uncertainty of her son's future.

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Building Hope, One Star at a Time

Tracey E. Vitchers | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Rebuilding After Tornados, Relief Projects, Generation 9/12 Project, New York Says Thank You, Stars of Hope, Remembering 9/11 Victims, Ny Says Thanks You, Impact News

After an F-5 tornado hit Greensburg, Kansas in May 2007 and destroyed 95 percent of the town, the New York Says Thank You Foundation traveled to the t...

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Constructing a Safer Haiti

Stacey McMahan | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Aia, Rebuilding Haiti, Haiti, American Institute of Architects, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Architecture, Impact News

Recovery in Haiti will continue for decades, properly implementing education on safe structures are just the first steps down the long path.

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What We Shouldn't Leave to Debate: Our Nation's Priorities

Gary A. Officer | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Nonprofits, Community, Education, Poverty, Making Home Affordable, Housing, Debt Ceiling, Low-Income, Veterans, Impact News

Deficit reduction will hurt those that are most vulnerable: our nation's low-income and lower-middle class families, the backbone of America, living on the precipice of unthinkable loss.

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Taking the First Steps Toward Progress

Stacey McMahan | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Architecture, Aia, Disaster Recovery, Haiti, American Institute of Architects, Impact News

The CNIAH's resurrection and role in helping to revitalize Haiti is an important step toward a sustainable and stable recovery after the devastating earthquake.

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Farishta: A Compelling Novel About War & Rebuilding, Love & Loss

Stephenie Foster | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Mazar-I-Sharif, Women, Afghanistan, Solar Ovens, War, Patricia McArdle, Books We Love, Books News

This is more than a book about one woman and her desire to help Afghans find their own way. It is a story of the daily dangers Angela and colleagues face, the trauma that can accompany their work, and the difficulty they have reentering society.

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Memorial Day: A Celebration of our Heroes at Home

Gary A. Officer | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Home Modification, Memorial Day, Heroes, Heroes at Home, Rebuilding, Rehabilitation, September 11th, Veterans, Impact News

As we contemplate the courage of our fallen heroes, let us also pay homage to the allegiance of our enlisted men and women and our veteran community.

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A Year in Haiti: Education and Rebuilding

Stacey McMahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Architecture for Humanity, American Institute of Architects, Haiti, Rebuilding, Architecture, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Aia, Architecture-for-Disaster-Relief, Impact News

As it stands, we're building the bridge in Haiti as we walk across, but our work is essential and is making a difference -- one safe building at a time.

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What We Can Do Now For Japan

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recovery, Relief, Tsunami, International-Relief-Agencies, Red Cross, Televangelists, Rebuilding, Earthquake, Operation USA, Japan, Radiation, Impact News

I urge the donating public to take it slowly and deliberately. Better to carefully sort through relief agencies' descriptions of what they plan to do over the next month to two years in Japan to help it recover.

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Japan Quake: When to Start Rebuilding

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Earthquake, Tsunami, Architecture for Humanity, Reconstruction, Japan, Japan Relief, Japan Earthquake, Japan Recovery, Japan Relief Efforts, Impact News

For those not used to working in disasters, the first week is chaotic. It is not the time for architects to show up to rebuild. People are trying to find their loved ones, not think about what their lives will look like in 10 years.

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Haiti one Year on: Building a Foundation

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Anniversary, Haiti, Rebuilding, Haiti Anniversary, Haiti Earthquake, One Year Later, Architecture for Humanity, Impact News

Haitians didn't ask for the task of rebuilding their country, but they are bound together by it. We are lucky to get to support their vision and to build strong foundations for future generations.

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Southern Sudan: Building a New Nation

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Southern Sudan, Governance, Building, Election, New Sudan, Splm, Impact News

The outcome of Southern Sudan's upcoming election is pointing towards a new nation state and the international community will rally around its birth. The real issue is whether the international community will help or hinder.

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Nothing Worse Than Being All Mouth and No Trousers

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mali, Chile, End of Year Giving, New Orleans, Brazil, Pakistan, Reconstruction, Rebuilding, Donations, Haiti, Impact News

This is what my mum used to say to me. I didn't realize what it actually meant but as a nine year old I took it to mean -- don't just talk about something, do it.

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Arnold Fields, Afghanistan Reconstruction Watchdog, BLASTED By Congress

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contractors, Afghanistan, Afghan, Rebuilding, Arnold Fields, Contracts, Inspector General, Tom Coburn, Fraud, Claire McCaskill, Sigar, Chuck Grassley, Ig, Waste, Tommy Vietor, Corruption, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. official charged with combating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan failed Thursday to con...

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Building up to MENA

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, North Africa, Gaza, Middle East, Quakers, Haiti, World Economic Forum, American Friends Service Committee, Business News

This year's World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa is set in the heart of Morocco and it took quite a journey to get from Savannah to Marrakech.

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Bill Clinton Anxious & Hopeful About Haiti Recovery 6 Months After Earthquake

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Australia, Brazil, Debt Relief, Port Au Prince, Rebuilding, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Philanthropy, Haiti Earthquake, Norway, Haiti, United States, Donations, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed frustration Saturday over the slow pace of Haiti's earthquake recovery, but...

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Hope Floats: The Community Rafts of Northern Pakistan

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Rebuilding, Pakistan Floods, Economic Recovery, Funding, Community Organizing, Pakistan, Impact News

For all the talk on "design for change," it is those who are on the ground and challenged every day that prove that creativity is an instinctive trait in the human ability to survive.

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Pakistan: Community Led Sustainable Reconstruction

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Reconstruction, Architecture for Humanity, Flooding, Pakistan, Impact News

The last thing we need to do is implement a broken system of top down 'hand out' relief. It is our mission to make sure that we are building back better but also in a sustainable manner, not just environmentally but economically too.

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New Orleanians Still Feel Scars Of Katrina

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katrina Anniversary, New Orleans, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Recovery, Population, Tourism, Louisiana, Lakeview, Rebuilding, Jobs, Public Education, Mid City, Impact News

For the past three years, Jean Chandler, 42, has been trying to figure out what to do with the six giant cedar wood doors piled up in the office of hi...

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Hurricane Katrina 5 Years Later: Mixed Recovery In Storm's Wake

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whites, Population, Mitch Landrieu, Gulf Coast, BP Oil Spill, New Orleans, Poverty, Public Housing, Camp Restore, Hurricane Katrina, Volunteers, Rebuilding, Fema, Hispanics, Pass Christian, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Bay St. Louis, Ray Nagin, Blacks, Schools, Politics News

NEW ORLEANS — A mother of four feels trapped in the same New Orleans public housing complex from which she was rescued when flood waters ravaged...

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'Delta Blues' Brings Tourists To An Economically Depressed South

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mississippi, Rebuilding America, Rebuilding, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Economic Recovery, Delta Blues Museum, Blues Music, Video, Impact News

In the land of such blues legends as Muddy Waters and B.B. King, life is not as bad as it could be. In spite of the recent oil spill, Hurricane Katrin...

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Rebuilding Haiti: The Job Everybody and Nobody Wants

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

As civil society groups try to figure out where they fit into Haiti's quest for "development," movements for workers' rights are emerging as a counterweight to the aid agencies often associated with oppressive neo-imperialism.

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Greensburg, Kansas: From Green-town to Clean-town

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Project Explore, Baking Soda, Eco-Environment, Donor Fatigue, Twilight Theatre, U.S. Department of Energy, Eco-Innovation, Green Economy, Usda, National Renewable Energy Lab, Country Music, PF Waterworks, Dorothy Gale, Twister, Vegetable Gardens, Fema, Leed, TADgreen Inc, Green Cleaners, Spirit of Greensburg Committee, Clorox Company, Man-Made-Disasters, White Vinegar, Clorox, Green Economies, Survivors, Ralph Appelbaum, Green Cleaning, Cooling, Small Business, Caroma USA, Clorox-Company, Bauer Power, Sichuan Provence, Kansas Housing Resources Corporation, Fund-Raising, Salt, Small Businesses, Leed-Certified-Home, Eco-Toxins, General Motors, Discovery Channel, Greensburg/GreenTown, Ground-Source Cooling, Sustainable German Technology, Borax, Meadowlark House, Global-Economy, OCW Foundation, AT&T, Rebuilding, Samoa Tsunami, China Earthquake, Education and Outreach, Clean Infrastructure, Outdoor Eco-Environments, Environmentally Conscious, Pollutants, Greensburg Kansas, Volcanic Ash, The Green Economy, Usde, Natural Home Magazine, Global Economy, German Technology, Discovery Communications, The Wizard of Oz, 9/11, Outreach, Eco-Friendly, Silo Eco-Home, Pollutant, Kansas, USDA-Rural Development, Office Depot, Sustainable Technology, Eco Friendly, EF Scale, OneCleanWorld Foundation, Big Well Museum, Environmental Sustainability, Sun Chips, Enhanced Fujita, Advocacy, Big Green Box, Fund Raising, One Clean World Foundation, Sterling-Publishing, Green-Economy, Sears, Outdoor Eco-Environment, Mother Earth News, EF5 Tornado, Natural-Home-Magazine, 24-Hour News Cycle, Environmental-Sustainability, Commercial Cleanser, Education, Green Infrastructure, Tsunami, Green Dwellings, Kiowa County Commons, Solar Hot Water, Wind Turbines, Tornado, Greensburg-Kansas, Conscious Living, Vinegar, Kiowa County, Kansas Tornado, Toxins, Disaster-Victims, Schmidt/Manlier Family, Green Buildings, Richard Haymes, Leed-Certified Home, Public Health, Greensburg 2020, Tropical Cyclone, Eco-Home, Commercial Cleaners, Sterling Publishing, Kiowa County United, Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing, George Jones, Green Industry, Rooftop Gardens, Fundraising, Cleaning, Viega, ef5, Ocwf, Bnim, Green News

After a tornado destroyed 95% of the town, Greensburg, Kansas reinvented itself by striving to become the greenest community imaginable.

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Three months later, Haiti looks for homegrown solutions

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Marc Kielburger, Relief-Aid, Haiti Earthquake, International Aid, Craig Kielburger, Haiti, Home News

The mayors from Haiti's Central Plateau region gathered in a stuffy auditorium in the town of Pandiassou. Dressed in short-sleeved shirts and casual p...

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