BY: ELI ROSS The Christchurch earthquake registered a 6.3 on the Richter scale, becoming New Zealand’s second deadliest natural disaster and flipping the world of most of its population upside down. But those who slept on park benches and below…
Inspired by Lego, a company is using disaster debris as building blocks for new homes
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It was five years ago that a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, affecting more than three million people. Over 250,000 houses and 30,000 buildings collapsed, leaving people without jobs and families without homes. The nights that followed the…
I was below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit and buildings started collapsing around me
BY: MATTHEW MCLOUGHLIN “I was just below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit. I just barely escaped two collapsing buildings.” At just 19-years old, Dylan Sartor stood in the shadow of the Himalayas, uninjured among the flattened houses and…