Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
MAREA, or the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association, is a nonprofit organization that has been around in Pennsylvania for 15 years. Based out of Kutztown, this organization fights to save the Earth from climate change by advocating for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy in Pennsylvania. Their work includes extensive school and community-based education, renewable…
After leaving Lehigh University due to the pandemic, I have been spending my quarantine in an affluent Minneapolis suburb with my partner’s family. Families ride their bikes down the sidewalks and kids play in their front yards and driveways, while keeping their distance from other passersby; older folks sit on their front lawns and chat….
On Wednesday, February 14, Tackling T.I.N.A. hosted the first of three public conversations scheduled this Spring. Themed around the idea of “Storytelling as a Strategy for Change,” Lehigh students and faculty joined together with Bethlehem community members to imagine how narrative frames and cultural myths shape our social and political realities. Led by graduate students…