High-school students from Liberty High School, Freedom HS, and Moravian Academy spoke out at this September 2020 event held at Touchstone Theatre (outdoors, due to the coronavirus pandemic)
In Festival UnBound 2019, Touchstone asked high schoolers in the Bethlehem Area School District, “what do you think the City should do to improve its sustainability. We left the question as to what “sustainability” meant wide open and received over 180 fascinating and entertaining replies. This year, Lisa Draper, Government and Economics teacher at Liberty High School, took up the question again and another 40 essays were written. Today’s “Speak Out” presents a few of those voices—from last year and this.
The Speak-Out included the thoughts and work of the following students (listed in order of their presentations:
- Audrey Dai
- Matt Subjin
- Emely Rodriguez *
- Somak Roy
- Laila-Lis Roque
- Asad Harrington
- Luke Rider
- Elijah Zemsky
- Maclaine Oskin
- Hamilton Addyson
- Angelys Hernandez,
William Rodriguez, &
Scott Schaffer **
* read by Eli Zemsky
** Read by Scott Schaffer
Topics:
- Let’s Talk About Climate Justice, by Audrey Dai
- Addressing Climate Change, by Matt Subjin
- Let’s Talk Solar, by Emely Rodriguez
- Let’s talk about water, by Somak Roy
- Wasting Water, by Laila-Lis Roque
- Water & Waste, by Asad Harrington
- Local Food & Farmers Markets, by Luke Rider
- Food Waste in Bethlehem, by Eli Zemsky
- Let’s talk about Land and Green Space Preservation, by Maclaine Oskin
- Safety at Liberty High School, by Hamilton Addyson
- Bicycling in Bethlehem, by Angelys Hernandez, William Rodriguez, & Scott Schaffer
These essays are published in the Voices of the Valley section of this website.
Voices of the Valley – Authors page
Sustainable Lehigh Valley Voices of the Valley page.