From the roof, you can see lots of graffiti, a few junkyards and burned-out sheds near other homes. The Amtrak train whizzes by a few times a day, and the BART roars in the distance. But this is where a new green community can and should be.

These photos are part of Simran Sethi's journalism class "Green Building, Green Jobs, Green Justice" at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.