Promoting sustainable living in our Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond. http://sustainableflatbush
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Flatbush Daffodil Project on 11/14 and 11/15 only
6 Nov 2009, 9:41 pm |
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Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!
6 Nov 2009, 9:31 pm |
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September 2009: Mark’s report
22 Oct 2009, 1:14 pm |
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Welcome Back Bash at Brooklyn College
20 Oct 2009, 1:41 pm |
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Introducing Sharifa!
20 Oct 2009, 1:34 pm |
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- Monthly Volunteer Gathering
Vox Pop Cafe
Tomorrow, November 10 at 6:30pm - Novella Carpenter reads from "...
Vox Pop Cafe/Bookstore
Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00pm
Sustainable Flatbush Help protect our water supply, sign the petition to ban gas drilling in NY State.
Source: www.thepetitionsite.com
Shale gas drilling under current technologies is far too dangerous to be allowed in NYS. (1630 signatures on petition)
Sustainable Flatbush E-Waste Recycling events in upper Manhattan, sponsored by CENYC...
Source: ecokvetch.blogspot.com
As we mentioned last week, the city has suspended their electronics recycling events because of budget cuts. But the Council on the Environment of New York City is sponsoring two collections of electronic ...
Sustainable Flatbush
Tales of Squatting, Dumpster Diving, and other Urban Farming Pursuits: A Night with Novella Carpenter
Novella Carpenter raises pigs, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, and goats on squatted land in downtown Oakland. Her hilarious memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, tells the real story of what it takes to grow your own food in a city.
Copies of the book will be available for sale.
The real story of what it takes to grow your own food in a city
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 11th
Location:Vox Pop Cafe/Bookstore
Sustainable Flatbush Windmill Park!
Source: www.nytimes.com
A new park for students living at the York Hill campus of Quinnipiac University features an array of wind turbines intended to project serenity while producing energy.
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Please join us for our monthly gathering.
This month we will discuss specific volunteer needs for upcoming events, as well as our soon-to-be-launched fundraising committee.
If you have specific skills you'd like to contribute, we want to know about them! If you want to get involved but aren't sure how, we'll find someth...ing fun for you to do!
* Learn about the projects and plans of Sustainable Flatbush!
* Come share some of your own sustainable ideas!
* Connect with other Sustainable Flatbush volunteers!
* Put faces to names and names to faces!
* Get to know each other!
* Have some fun!
Food and drinks are available for purchase if you need ’em.
See you there!Read More
This month we will discuss specific volunteer needs for upcoming events, as well as our soon-to-be-launched fundraising committee.
If you have specific skills you'd like to contribute, we want to know about them! If you want to get involved but aren't sure how, we'll find someth...ing fun for you to do!
* Learn about the projects and plans of Sustainable Flatbush!
* Come share some of your own sustainable ideas!
* Connect with other Sustainable Flatbush volunteers!
* Put faces to names and names to faces!
* Get to know each other!
* Have some fun!
Food and drinks are available for purchase if you need ’em.
See you there!Read More
Meet the people who make our projects happen... then become one!
Time:6:30PM Tuesday, November 10th
Location:Vox Pop Cafe
Sustainable Flatbush
Sustainable Flatbush is proud to be part of Project LeafDrop: “a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based coalition of gardeners and greening partners who are harvesting residential leaves for compost this fall.”
The Flatbush CommUNITY Garden, a project of our Urban Gardens and Farms Initiative, will hold leaf collections on ...Sunday November 8th and Saturday November 21st from 11am til 1pm, and there will be a shredder on hand to create leaf mulch “while you wait.”
So bring your fall leaves to 1550 Albemarle Road (at Buckingham Road) and be part of the movement for less garbage and more gardens!Read More
The Flatbush CommUNITY Garden, a project of our Urban Gardens and Farms Initiative, will hold leaf collections on ...Sunday November 8th and Saturday November 21st from 11am til 1pm, and there will be a shredder on hand to create leaf mulch “while you wait.”
So bring your fall leaves to 1550 Albemarle Road (at Buckingham Road) and be part of the movement for less garbage and more gardens!Read More
Less Garbage, More Gardens!
Time:11:00AM Sunday, November 8th
Location:Flatbush CommUNITY Garden
Sustainable Flatbush Pratt Center study highlights connection between poverty and lack of access to public transit
Source: prattcenter.net
As New York City works to promote economic opportunity for the poor, a new report by the Pratt Center for Community Development, "Public Housing in New York City: Building Communities of Opportunity," ...
Sustainable Flatbush NYC's First Solar Powered Oyster Reef!
Source: calamara.com
New York City's First Solar Powered Oyster Reef, a living art work growing in the intertidal zone in MCNEIL PARK on College Point, Queens NY.
Sustainable Flatbush Flatbush Artists Studio Tour this weekend (and opening party Thursday)!
Source: www.youtube.com
The second annual Flatbush Artists Studio Tour (FAST) will take place Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, from 11 a.m. 4 p.m. Visual artists of Victorian Flatbush will open their studios to the public in a weekend-long, self-guided tour throughout the park-like neighborhood. ...
Sustainable Flatbush "Clean Energy Superhighway"... Go Obama!
Source: www.nytimes.com
President Obama gave a stirring speech on the crucial issue of energy last week, but it lacked the excitement that should accompany an important national mission.
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Want to improve access to good, healthy food in our community?
Want to work with Flatbush neighbors to improve our health and environment?
Come to the Flatbush neighborhood meeting of the Brooklyn Food Coalition!
We will get updates on the Campus Road Garden, brainstorm about improving school food at local elementary scho...ols, and discuss food issues to raise at Brooklyn College's upcoming Sustainability Town Hall.
Wednesday November 4th 7pm
Brooklyn College—301 Roosevelt Hall
Bedford Ave. between Campus Rd & Ave. I
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for healthy, tasty, and affordable food.
We derive our ideas and our strength from local participation in the food movement, from people getting together in their neighborhoods to address their communities’ needs for a new food system. We want all decisions to be transparent and for decision-making to be available to everyone.
Right now we have groups in 7 neighborhoods in Brooklyn and we are working toward organizing more. Thus the most important action unit will be the neighborhood groups. Each neighborhood group will send representatives to a Council of Neighborhood Organizations that will unite communities around common issues and projects, improving the food system in Brooklyn together.
Please invite your friends and neighbors. All welcome.
For more information: pieranna@aol.com, nancyromer@gmail.com, anne@sustainableflatbush.orgRead More
Want to work with Flatbush neighbors to improve our health and environment?
Come to the Flatbush neighborhood meeting of the Brooklyn Food Coalition!
We will get updates on the Campus Road Garden, brainstorm about improving school food at local elementary scho...ols, and discuss food issues to raise at Brooklyn College's upcoming Sustainability Town Hall.
Wednesday November 4th 7pm
Brooklyn College—301 Roosevelt Hall
Bedford Ave. between Campus Rd & Ave. I
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for healthy, tasty, and affordable food.
We derive our ideas and our strength from local participation in the food movement, from people getting together in their neighborhoods to address their communities’ needs for a new food system. We want all decisions to be transparent and for decision-making to be available to everyone.
Right now we have groups in 7 neighborhoods in Brooklyn and we are working toward organizing more. Thus the most important action unit will be the neighborhood groups. Each neighborhood group will send representatives to a Council of Neighborhood Organizations that will unite communities around common issues and projects, improving the food system in Brooklyn together.
Please invite your friends and neighbors. All welcome.
For more information: pieranna@aol.com, nancyromer@gmail.com, anne@sustainableflatbush.orgRead More
Want to improve access to good, healthy food in our community?
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 4th
Location:Brooklyn College—301 Roosevelt Hall
Sustainable Flatbush Okay, who wants to be our 300th Facebook fan?
Our vision of a sustainable neighborhood includes equal access to healthy food and open spaces; preserving affordable housing (and the diverse population it enables) through innovative energy practices; and high-quality, resource-efficient transportation options (including bicycling). As residents of one of the most cu...lturally diverse neighborhoods in the nation, we strive to learn from each other and emulate global best practices in sustainability, whether that translates into cutting-edge technology or just living more simply. Read More
Non-Profit:324 fans
Sustainable Flatbush Check out our Energy Solutions project: Off-Grid Educational Solar Array at Vox Pop Cafe!
Source: energynewyork.wordpress.com
Here’s another great project from Sustainable Flatbush, a photovoltaic (solar-electric) system to provide night lighting for Vox Pop Cafe, on the corner of Cortelyou and Stratford.
RECENT ACTIVITY
Sustainable Flatbush wrote on Novella Carpenter reads from "Farm City"'s Wall.
Sustainable Flatbush wrote on Project LeafDrop's Wall.
