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One Kansas City Provides Lesson In Rebuilding After Disaster

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Kansas University graduate students work on a new art center in Greensburg, Kan. in 2008. (AP)
Kansas University graduate students work on a new art center in Greensburg, Kan. in 2008. (AP)

John Janssen, the former mayor of Greensburg, Kansas, says that communities in Japan can learn a lot from his small city. Two years after almost all of Greensburg was destroyed by a powerful tornado, the city has managed to rebuild and, Janssen says, become a better city.

We talk with Janssen about how Greensburg rebuilt and became more energy efficient.

This segment aired on April 1, 2011.

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