An alphabetical list of artists and writers who have contributed pieces to the Sustainable Lehigh Valley* [SLV] booklet or to Left Turn, plus others whose pieces we published online.
* (formerly known as the Directory of Organizations That Promote Sustainable Communities
- Hamilton Addyson – Safety at Liberty High School, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Erlinda Aguiar – Preserving Our Communities, 2017
- Pratima Agrawal – It’s Getting Hot in Here – the Global Warming Crisis, 2007
- Victoria Alercia-Casella – 10 Ways to Sustain your Mental and Emotional Health during COVID-19 (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Maison Allen –
- A Reflection on Recent Events in Palmerton (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Black Lives for Gun Control, 2018 (blog post–online only)
- Decolonizing America for a Sustainable Future, 2018
- We Need to Hold Boys Accountable, 2018 (blog post–online only)
- Eden Bailie – american soil (SLV, spring 2020)
- Alisa Baratta & Kathy Lilley & Jennifer Petrozzo – Working for a Sustainable Williams Township, 2010
- Jennifer Bell – A Growing Community, 2012
- Sarah Bender – What They Never Taught Us
- Stephanie Bennett – The Real Cost of Food, 2016
- Christina Bianco – Local for the Future, 2009
- Emmarose Biason – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Raven Blake – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Steven Bliss & Deana Zosky –Regional Thinking Must Rely on Broad Community Involvement, 2010
- Gary Bloss & Heidi Secord – Growing and Cultivating Successful New Farmers, 2017
- Leah Boecker – Sustainability and the Rights of Future Generations, 2013
- Martin W Boksenbaum
- Crisis? What Crisis?, 2004
- The Importance of Herding Animals, 2006
- What’s That You Want to Save the World?, 2007
- Testing Mother Nature’s Limits at Our Expense, 2011
- What Part Is Labor Playing in the Transition?, 2012
- Climate Action, Structure, Power, 2014
- A Re-Imagining of Passover’s Four Questions, 2016 (blog, online only)
- What Do We Want? When? How?, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Identity Crisis?, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Community and Ecosystem Protection: Two Films, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Gwladys Boukpessi – The Inequalities of Climate Change, 2019
- Reid Boyer – Sustainability is Good Business, 2012
- Kate Brandes
- Jerz E Brown – The End of an Age, 2013
- Greta Browne & Guy Gray
- Political Involvement for the Sake of Our Communities, 2010
- Far Right Pulls the Wool Over Voters’ Eyes, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- A century of politics and culture in Brazil, 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- Dhara Burak – The World is Ending, So Why Bother Dreaming? (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Ken Burak
- Josh Bushey & Kim Schaffer – Need to make a purchase? Think Independent!, 2008
- Anna Maria Caldara – Saying No to Toxic Waste Dumping, 2012
- Victoria Campbell
- Death Penalty in Slow Motion, 2018 (blog post–online only)
- Advocating for Change in the Criminal Justice System [PDF], 2018 (online report)
- Rebecca Canright
- Forgoing Fossil Fuels, Finally, 2016
- Drawing Down Atmospheric Carbon, 2018
- Solutions Lie In Soil, 2020
- What Darkness Reveals, 2021
- Three short poems, 2021
- Todd Carpien –Harvest of Empire, 2018 (Left Turn #2)
- Rachel Hogan Carr – How Will We Shape Sandy’s Legacy?, 2013
- Lindsay Chamberlain – Local Communities – the First Step Towards a Cooler World, 2007
- Silas Chamberlain – An Economic Argument for Trails in the Lehigh Valley, 2009
- Eirlys Chui – Sustainable Food for Thought, 2020
- Tom Church
- Organized Localization, 2017
- It’s Symbiosis, Stupid (with Sheila Gallagher), 2013
- Emma Cleveland – Embracing Diversity, 2011
- Courtney Cohen
- Gwen Colegrove
- The Sky Is Falling!, 2007
- Sustainability Through Localization (with Cathy Frankenburg), 2009
- Pana Columbus
- Sally Eiler Cordova – Positive Change, 2006
- Audrey Crocco – Earthly Murals (SLV Fall 2021)
- Crysan Cronin – A Day in the Life, 2011
- Peter Crownfield
- Bethlehem City Council ignores people and the law, 2014 (blog post–online only)
- Open Letter to Bethlehem’s Historic Conservation Commission, 2014 (blog post–online only)
- Do You Buy Chocolate Produced by Slaves?, 2018 (blog post–online only)
- Development can be sustainable — or destructive, 2018 (blog post–online only)
- #TeachTheTruth (with Devon Jewell – SLV Fall 2021)
- Audrey Dai –
- Miranda Davis – Do You Belong Here?, 2021
- Garth Denton-Borhaug – Moravian College at the United Nations Climate Negotiations, 2013
- Anthony DiMaggio – Orwell’s Doublethink, Alive and Well in Trump’s America, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- Alwyn Eades – Environmental Sustainability vs. Human Rights , 2013
- Alexandra Edelstein – Evolve Towards Involvement, 2010
- Lia Embil
- Water & drawings (SLV Fall 2020)
- We, the Ocean (SLV Fall 2021)
- Evan Epstein – Don’t discount Karen Dolan’s contributions, 2014 (blog post–online only)
- Tom Egan – Finding Truly Sustainable Paths, 2004
- Harris Eisenhardt – How can we create a sustainable future?, 2018
- Stephen Escobar Mendez – Patria y honor (SLV Fall 2020)
- David Fadem – The Last Real Town (SLV Fall 2021)
- Alyssa Fama – The Importance of Teaching About Food, Climate, and Sustainability, 2016
- Faramarz Farbod
- The Looming Climate Catastrophe & the Great Silence (SLV Summer 2022)
- Another World Is Possible, 2011
- It’s Capitalism, Stupid, 2015
- Let’s Not Forget CIA Overthrew Mossadeq in Iran, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Because Capitalism Degrades Nature, 2019
- Remembering William Blum, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- “What Happened?”, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- Make Capitalism History, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- “Know this now, you are killing a man.”, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- Elaheh Farmand
- Dance of the Blossoms, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- This Freedom, 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- Rich Fegley – Local Economic Systems, 2011
- Karen Feridun – Protecting the Interests of the People, 2012
- Max Fern – We Need to Switch to Regenerative Organic Agriculture Now (SLV Summer 2022)
- Festival Unbound – High School Students Speak Out, 2020
- Alex Fischer
- Is There Hope for the Future?, 2018
- It’s Just a Party, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Marx and Earth-First Socialism, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Class War and the 2020 Election, 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- Lenny Flank
- You Can’t Litigate Your Way To a Union: The IWW Campaign at Boulevard Bingo, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- Occupy Wall Street: A Post-Mortem Examination, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- History, Geography, Russia and Vladimir Putin, 2020-2021 (Left Turn #8)
- Hannah Flaven
- Samsara (SLV Fall 2021)
- Terminally Ill (SLV Fall 2021)
- Mary Catherine Foltz – South Side Initiative , 2017
- Thomas Fortsch – A More Livable Lehigh Valley (SLV Summer 2022)
- Claire France – Teamwork for Sustainable Objectives, 2017
- Jeffrey Frank – Eating Locally, 2008
- Cathy Frankenburg & Gwen Colegrove – Sustainability Through Localization, 2009
- Len Frenkel – Is Meat Consumption Sustainable?, 2006
- Jacob Fuhrer – Not So Different, You and I (SLV Fall 2021)
- Sheila Gallagher
- It’s Symbiosis, Stupid (with Tom Church), 2013
- Let’s Shoot for the Moon, Again!, 2015
- Sienna Gallus – Flooded (SLV Summer 2022)
- Bill George – Festival Unbound, 2019
- Ce-Ce Gerlach – The Need for Equitable and Inclusive Development, 2016
- Christopher Giannaras – Tackling Bethlehem’s Housing Crisis (SLV Summer 2022)
- Jennie Gilrain – Fourth Grade Artists and Activists, 2021
- Jennifer Giovanniello – Farms and Food Security, 2018
- Bonnie Glose & Kara Scott – I Am the Lorax, 2010
- Andrew Goldman – The Paradox of “Nature”, 2018
- Janet Goloub – The Growing Divide in the USA, 2005
- Jacy Good – Whatever We Do to the Web of Life, We Do to Ourselves, 2008
- Guy Gray & Greta Browne
- Political Involvement for the Sake of Our Communities, 2010
- Far Right Pulls the Wool Over Voters’ Eyes, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Impressions from Brazil 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- Suzanne Hall
- Claiming My Sanity, 2011
- Standing Rock Protector statements, 2016 (blog post–online only)
- Ida Halleröd – The Legal Alien, 2014
- Kayla Harper – The Importance of Restaurant Sustainability, 2019
- Asad Harrington – Water & Waste, 2020, (Festival Unbound)
- Annie Hasz – The Promise of Permaculture, 2008
- Doug Heath
- US-Russia Relations: Marching Toward Disaster?, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United Statess (Review), 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- Adam Heidebrink-Bruno
- Building Infrastructure of Resistance, 2015
- Tackling TINA: Imagining a World Beyond Capitalism, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Bill Hennessey – Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association, 2009
- Karen Henninger – Reviving and Sustaining Humanity and the Earth, 2015
- Igho Herbert –, Urban Ecology in Easton’s West Ward—What’s It All About? , 2009
- Angelis Hernandez – William Rodriguez, & Scott Schaffer Bicycling in Bethlehem, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Brian Hillard – A Sustainability Narrative, 2019
- Steve Hoog
- Carter Humola – A Student’s Struggle With Action, 2020
- Dan Hunter – When Oil Hits Its Peak, 2006
- Diane White Husic
- Devon Jewell – #TeachTheTruth (with Peter Crownfield, SLV Fall 2021)
- Amani Jones – Apartment B12 (SLV Summer 2022)
- Joann Jones – Sustaining Personal Life and Vitality, 2004
- Noël Jones – The Importance of Being Radical , 2012
- Elyse Jurgen – Campus Sustainability Initiative, 2007
- Amaiya Kavachery – Humanity (SLV Fall 2021)
- Haley Kerridge – Foggy Fields (SLV Summer 2022)
- Samantha Keenan – Colleges Lead the Way Towards Sustainability, 2016
- Emily Kim – Restorative Justice: A New Hope (SLV Fall 2021)
- Colton Krial & Leah Triber – Social Spaces, Public Discussion, Political Action, 2015
- Zoe Lachter – Emerald (SLV Fall 2021)
- Dick Lane –Sharing My Grandfather’s Tale, 2014
- A. J. Lao – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Victoria Lawrence – Summer Solstice at Rodale (painting), 2021
- Caroline Lee – Making Community Governance Work, 2010
- Ophelia LeFay – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Helene B. Leonetti MD –The Healing Path, 2005
- Jessica Levy –
- Increasing Community Access to Fresh, Local Foods
- Food for Thought! (with Hannah Provost, SLV Fall 2020)
- Rachel LeWitt – Sustainability in the Workplace, 2011
- Dennis R. Lieb – Is Sustainable Urban Living a Viable Outcome of Our Current Political System?, 2013
- Kathy Lilley & Jennifer Petrozzo & Alisa Baratta – Working for a Sustainable Williams Township, 2010
- Zoe Lowry – Awaken (SLV Fall 2021)
- Sophia Lynch – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Joyce Marin
- Brianna Marmol – The Bullied Earth, 2018
- Keri Maxfield – Art as a Pathway to Sustainability, 2019
- Emily McGlynn – IDon’tNeedtheInternettoMakeaDifference.org, 2008
- Clare Meehan –
- Lindsay Meiman
- Jennifer Menegus – College Students Look Ahead, 2009
- Ted Morgan
- Echoes from the 1960s, 2012
- Where Does Our Culture of Rage and Disaffection Come From?, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Venezuela and Totalitarian Media in the US, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- The Challenges of Global Warming: Government Inaction and Crimes Against Humanity, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- The Immigration Con Job, 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- The Capitol Assault was Symptomatic of our Dysfunctional Two-Party Politics, 2020-2021 (Left Turn #8)
- Tom Moroz
- Ian Morse – Global Environmental Justice, 2021
- Kerri Mullen, Women Quietly Mobilize for a Sustainable and Healthy Future, 2009
- Lilyanna Nowak – ‘Do You Ever Feel Like a Plastic Bag, Drifting through the Wind?’ (SLV Summer 2022)
- Zachary Nye – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Kermit O – Education for Sustainability, 2021
- Kaia O’Brien – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Gary Olson
- Torture In Service to Empire, 2015
- A Brief Thought Experiment, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Whither the Poor People’s Campaign?, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Pope Francis and the Battle Over Cultural Terrain, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Meritocracy Is a Lie, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- On Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Calling Obama a “Pretty Face” Who “Got Away With Murder”, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- Why It’s Important to Understand Cultural Capital, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- On Class Consciousness and the 2020 Presidential Election, 2020 (Left Turn #5)
- Was it only “Fear Itself?”: FDR and Today, 2020-2021 (Left Turn #8)
- Decolonizing Minds, Including My Own, About U.S. Capitalist State Settler Colonialism, 2021 (Left Turn #10)
- Maclaine Oskin
- Land Conservation (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Land & Green Space Preservation, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Hannae Pavlick – Adaptive Reuse of Old Buildings, 2006
- Jennifer Petrozzo & Alisa Baratta & Kathy Lilley – Working for a Sustainable Williams Township, 2010
- Margaux Petruska – Healthcare and Sustainability (SLV Fall 2021)
- Dan Poresky
- Ben Price – The Denial of Local Self-Governing Rights Makes Sustainability Impossible, 2010
- Annie Prince & Bruce Wilson – Remembering Joris Rosse (SLV Fall 2021)
- Tom Pritchett – Why Bio-Ethanol Does Not Negate The Need For Conservation, 2007
- Hannah Provost – Save Our Swifts!, 2021
- Hannah Provost and Jessica Levy – Food for Thought! (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Jamie Ratchford – Reawakening: A Story of Spring 2020
- Phil Reiss Local Food & Farmers Markets, 2020
- In the National Interest, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Exploitation of the Powerless:The Essence of Capitalism, 2019 (Left Turn #2)
- Footprints in the Sand, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- Luke Rider – Local Food & Farmers Markets, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Bob Riggs – Remembering Berta Cáceres, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Melanie Rios – Damaged Sky (SLV Summer 2022)
- Santiago Tito Rivera, Jr.
- Don’t Harm The Messenger, 2012
- The End of an Age (writing as Jerz E Brown), 2013
- Laila-Lis Roque – Wasting Water, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Maya Rodale –Organic is the Answer for Healthy Food, Healthy People, and a Healthy Planet, 2011
- Emely Rodriguez –
- Let’s Talk Solar (SLV, fall 2020)
- Let’s Talk Solar, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- William Rodriguez, Angelis Hernandez, & Scott Schaffer Bicycling in Bethlehem, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Franca Roibal Hernández – Venezuela, Capitalism, and White Supremacy, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- Fred Rooney – The Value of Dual Citizenship in These Tumultuous Times, 2018 (Left Turn #1)
- Rachel Rosenfeld –Protecting the Clean Water Rule, 2019
- Joris Rosse
- Somak Roy – Let’s talk about water, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Doug Roysdon
- Steve Schmitt – Appropriate Transportation, 2006
- Avery Schuyler Nunn – Patagonia 2018 photographs (SLV, fall 2020)
- Heidi Secord & Gary Bloss, Growing and Cultivating Successful New Farmers, 2017
- Kim Schaffer & Josh Bushey – Need to make a purchase? Think Independent! , 2008
- Scott Schaffer, Angelis Hernandez, & William Rodriguez – Bicycling in Bethlehem, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Kara Scott & Bonnie Glose – I Am the Lorax, 2010
- Adrian Shanker
- Sakura Shinjo
- Reproductive Rights Are About Everyone, 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- The Environment, the Beauty Industry, and the Responsibility of Women, 2020 (SLV)
- Nandini Sikand – Regenerative Community Justice, 2020
- Scott Slingerland – Sustainable Travel, 2018
- Mark Smallwood – It Starts With the Soil, 2014 (blog post–online only)
- Everet Smith – Mother Nature’s Lament (SLV Summer 2022)
- Cathy Snyder – Gleaning for the Future, 2019
- Emma Stierhoff – The Environmental Perils of Consumerism, 2018
- Benny Stinson – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Nathaniel Stratton – A Rejection of the Rights of Nature (SLV Fall 2021)
- Jessica Stuart – Rekindling Local Democracy, 2010
- Matt Subjin – Addressing Climate Change, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Cecelia Tabor – Don’t Open the Door (SLV Fall 2021)
- Genevieve Tabor – Reasons I Love Fall
- Madeline Tade – The Clay People (SLV Fall 2021)
- Nancy Tate
- Is Peace An Environmental Issue?, 2019
- Remembering Martin Boksenbaum, 2019 (Left Turn #4)
- Ivy Tharouniatis – The Power of Inclusion (SLV Fall 2021)
- Julie Thomases – Building a Local Living Economy, 2009
- Anthony Thompson – Gentrify No More, Preserve History! (SLV Fall 2021)
- Jacqline Wolf Tice – Community Health in the Lehigh Valley, 2016
- Jennifer Tillman – Local Action Will Build a Better Future, 2008
- Claire Todaro – Save the Bees (& All Pollinators) , 2019 (blog post–online only)
- Leah Triber & Colton Krial – Social Spaces, Public Discussion, Political Action, 2015
- Amelia Tuerk – returning to my body…returning to the sea (SLV Summer 2022)
- Alyson Van Dusen – The Departure of Waves (SLV Fall 2021)
- Briana VanBuskirk – The Cycle of Discarding, 2018
- Ashley Velasquez – Si Se Puede: Make the Road’s Organizing Efforts in the Lehigh Valley (interview with Ricardo Almodovar), 2019 (Left Turn #3)
- Nancy Walters – 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Lauren Warner – The Human Cost of Consumption, 2008
- Dee Wartenburg – Holistic Health, 2004
- Joseph C. Welsko – Of What Is and What Used to Be (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Rokia Whitehouse – painting for 20/20 Vision: Eyes On Hunger, 2021
- Johnny Wilk –
- Please, I Can’t Breathe (SLV Fall 2020)
- Misinformation Pandemic (SLV Fall 2021)
- Hero of Equality (SLV Summer 2022)
- Bruce Wilson
- Green Buildings Are Sustainable, High-Performance Buildings, 2009
- Energy Improvements to Existing Buildings, 2015
- Thoughts on the Election and…, 2016 (blog post–online only)
- Energy Efficiency: Solution to Climate Change, 2020
- Remembering Joris Rosse (with Annie Prince, SLV Fall 2021)
- Don Wilson – Pathways With a Heart (SLV Fall 2021 cover)
- Margaret Wilson – Go Organic and Bring the Farm to You, 2020
- Jenna Ashton Winton – Cultural Sustainability, 2020
- Matt Wolf –
- Green Pond, 2017
- The Moon Glistens in the Snow, 2017
- Me and my plastic army, 2021
- Vivien Woolley – The Sustainability Society (SLV Summer 2022 cover)
- Al Wurth – At a Crossroads, 2013
- YOUTH VOICES – 20+ students & young adults from the Lehigh Valley share their thoughts on climate, sustainability, and the future (SLV Fall 2021)
- Zeke Zelker – Land Use and Development, 2016
- Eli Zemsky –
- Food Waste in Bethlehem (SLV, Fall 2020)
- Food Waste in Bethlehem, 2020 (Festival Unbound)
- Deana Zosky & Steven Bliss – Regional Thinking Must Rely on Broad Community Involvement, 2010
- Tara Zrinski –
- Fragile Beauty (SLV, Fall 2020 cover)
- Renewable Energy vs. Fracking & Pipelines, 2017
- When the Water Is Low (SLV, Fall 2020)
Voices of the Valley essays from Sustainable Lehigh Valley: 2004 – 2005 – 2006– 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019
Also see: Left Turn #1 (fall 2018) – #2 (winter 2019) – #3 (summer 2019), #4 (fall 2019) –