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Episode: Some houses are being built to stand up to hurricanes and sharply cut emissions, too
Description: Bonny Paulson's home, with a rounded shape that looks something like a ship, shrugged off Category 5 winds that might otherwise have collapsed it when Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle five years ago.
Her house lost only a few shingles, with photos taken after the storm showing it standing whole amid the wreckage of almost all the surrounding homes.
Some developers are building homes like Paulson's with an eye toward making them more resilient to the extreme weather thatβs increasing with climate change, and friendlier to the environment at the same time.
A person's home is one of the bi...