Greensburg, the small city in central Kiowa County, located in Southwest Kansas, has gotten a lot of attention lately. The President is headed there today. Bush landed at McConnell Air Force Base at 1:29 p.m. and a transfer helicopter, Marine One, picked him up after being greeted by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Sen. Sam Brownback and Rep. Todd Tiahrt.

Greensburg was devastated by a powerful tornado on May 4 last year, literally blowing the city away. Eleven people died and more than 90 percent of the city was destroyed. To imagine the destruction left behind, it is enough to picture that of 220 John Deere machineries at the local dealership, only 13 could be saved. The National Weather Service estimated winds of the tornado to have top speeds of 205 mph.

Weather experts stood in amazement as they contemplated the aftermath of a storm which lifted off the ground combines that weigh 25,000 pounds and moved them half a mile through the air.

Greensburg has since rebuilt at an amazing speed. Just a week after its destructions, ideas and plans began to form to rebuild the city the "green" way.

"My first order of business was to listen. What I heard were a lot of concerns about politicization and being associated with 'tree huggers.' I helped frame it with the people here in such a way they saw, this is their movement," said Daniel Wallach, an expert in environmentally-friendly solutions in a nearby town, in an interview with CNN.

Greensburg is now the first city in the United States which pledged that all city-owned buildings larger than 4,000 square will get the highest rating of the U.S. Green Building Council. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certified buildings are expected to use 42 percent less energy than building code standards allow. Also, the city aims to have all of Greensburg's electricity coming from renewable sources.

Greensburg is the home to the world's largest hand dug well, which was completed in 1888 and was 109 feet deep and 32 feet in diameter. The city also has another awkward attraction, a 1000-pound pallasite meteorite.