Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
The Lehigh Valley Sierra Club’s recent meeting was a workshop-style dialogue for Sierra Club members to consider equity in the outdoors. The discussion was premised around the question of who feels safe or unsafe in outdoor spaces and doing outdoor activities. The main goal for the meeting was to investigate how the mainstream environmentalist community…
Inspired by Bethlehem’s previous successes in implementing more energy efficient utilities and infrastructure into municipal buildings, the city of Bethlehem is invested in doing its part to reduce its contributions to climate change and build resilience and adaptive capacity throughout the city.
I was astounded by the turnout of Aardvark Sports Shop’s evening group run. Growing up, I worked at a similar shoe store. Even with the incentive of free beer, usually only around ten athletes showed up to our runs. By contrast, the run that I attended at Aardvark had around 40 participants! The large attendance…
Trevor Van Ackeren is an extremely accomplished distance runner native to Bethlehem. His tremendous collegiate achievements include winning Ivy League and Big-12 Conference individual titles, leading multiple relay teams to victory at the Penn Relays, and running the 1500 meter-run in 3 minutes and 39 seconds (converts to 3:57 mile), a time that was well…