Throughout my Spring Semester, I have been working closely with the team at Alliance for Sustainable Communities to publish Left Turn and Sustainable Lehigh Valley. Left Turn presents essays and articles by members of the Lehigh Valley focused on global capitalism, methods for sustainable development, and, in the most recent issue, the Israel-Palestine conflict. When I came … [Read more...] about My Internship with the Alliance
Environmental Education in Schools
By: Ericka Nimbley Throughout my high school experience, I had the privilege of being a part of the Academy of Environmental Science. Throughout my four years of high school, I was immersed in the field of environmental science and studies, which has played a leading role in the student that I am today. I have dedicated this blog post to lessons that can be applied to a … [Read more...] about Environmental Education in Schools
Attention High School Students!
This summer, the Alliance will publish a special Youth Voices issue of Sustainable Lehigh Valley focused on work from local high-school students — and we’d like to include your voice! Your creative abilities can help move us toward a more sustainable world! — whether your primary interest is the climate, environment, healthy food, social justice, public health, … [Read more...] about Attention High School Students!
Winter Night
Rebecca Canright Darkness falling, lustroussky full of night impendingpaintbrush-tailed horsesetch stars into existencelike books opening and reading themselves aloud,vines of mysteryfelt only with eyes closed,never seen.Far away, icicle comesto rest, fallen on frozen lakefallen, but not unhappyresting in being Rebecca grew up on an organic farm in New Jersey and … [Read more...] about Winter Night
Whispers
Orly Kvitka What whispers into the quiet of the night is not to be taken lightly.What hisses into the quiet is not to be seen as a hoax.The cacophony of unknown cries echoes, but does it ever meet your ears? It is a crisis you see as unbecoming of its severe title.It is a call for justice and strengthYou might have the resources, but will it cause you strain? Will your … [Read more...] about Whispers
When Rome Fell to the Trees
Felix Murch When Rome fell, the aqueducts stood in the midstIn political pandemonium, water flowedBut now it has fallen to the treesEven buried by the SaharaRome wasn’t built in a day, but it only took 6 to burn down What will Lady liberty look like in 30 years time?Polished by the sea, she’s now copper greenBloodshed at GettysburgWatered the growing green grass Roots … [Read more...] about When Rome Fell to the Trees
War Is More Than What You Think It Is
Faramarz Farbod We don’t think holistically about war. When considering the costs of wars we limit our thoughts to war budgets and expenditures; loss of combatants and non-combatants; healing the injured; destruction of infrastructure, cities, countries, and even species annihilation in case of a thermonuclear war, but scarcely about pollution and the destruction of the … [Read more...] about War Is More Than What You Think It Is
The Park
(anonymous) I love the parkIt’s Mother Nature’s little playpen for all of her creaturesIt’s where the squirrels collectThe dogs playThe humans gather and where the birds flock,It’s where stories follow I see a manHis tanned skin mirroring the rich soil from the place he once called homeThe government, made it hard to call it oneThey took the chance with one manAnd he … [Read more...] about The Park
“The earth will not miss us”
Hannah Kraybill-Greggo Mid day,in the now reclaimed field,a newcomer has arrived.The cardinal, with aching wingsfrom the far flight away from its nest,is looking for sustenance. It settles swiftlyon the dilapidated fence.The fractured trees,are decomposing,returning to the earth. Below him, little antsquickly form convoluted colonies.Maneuvering without … [Read more...] about “The earth will not miss us”
The Chase
Cecelia Tabor Leaves crunched softly under the tread of a slender figure walking under trees. She was alone on a quiet morning in November. The forest grew warm and bright as the amber sun rose in the sky. Many of the trees were draped in red and gold leaves, like kings and queens of olden days, with paths of yellow and orange arranged around them on the ground. If you … [Read more...] about The Chase