Community Building

Maria and Nicole invite YOU to our Monthly Volunteer Gathering!

Maria and Nicole invite YOU to our Monthly Volunteer Gathering!

Hey friends and neighbors!
We’re excited to invite you to another Monthly Volunteer Gathering at Vox Pop Cafe with Sustainable Flatbush! (Our second one, yay!) We’re going to be talking a lot about our next big event of the spring, the Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20th. We all want to learn about how to make [...]

Land of the Free, Home of the...Cars?

Land of the Free, Home of the…Cars?

What happens when you get 1 Brooklyn College  + extra land x neighbors who care about the environment?  A Brooklyn College community garden! Or rather, the Campus Road Community Garden.

Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are

Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are

Sustainable Flatbush presents our second annual Greening Flatbush event on Sunday, February 21st!
Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are is an afternoon of short demonstrations and hands-on workshops

Nicole and Maria invite YOU to our Monthly Volunteer Gathering!

Nicole and Maria invite YOU to our Monthly Volunteer Gathering!

Hey friends and neighbors!  Get excited for another Monthly Volunteer Gathering at Vox Pop Cafe with Sustainable Flatbush!

Flatbush Food Film Forum starts on January 27th!

Flatbush Food Film Forum starts on January 27th!

Flatbush Food Film Forum features FRESH on Wednesday, January 27th at 7 PM!

Flatbush Daffodil Project this weekend!

Flatbush Daffodil Project this weekend!

Join Sustainable Flatbush and your fellow urban gardeners to beautify neighborhood tree beds by planting daffodil bulbs!

September 2009: Mark's report

September 2009: Mark’s report

When I decided to intern with a non-profit organization I googled, “local sustainable brooklyn,”  and that big wide web introduced me to Sustainable Flatbush. I had already searched a number of groups whose websites seemed too impersonal, too big, too far, or too bureaucratic. Then this delightfully designed web-page revealed itself with an unmistakably local [...]

Welcome Back Bash at Brooklyn College

Where could you have seen a live band, a bearded woman, and Sustainable Flatbush?? At Brooklyn College’s Student Center’s Welcome Back Bash on October 6th, 2009.
Campus Road was closed down and filled with tables of student groups and community organizations, games, street performers from Circus Amok, and live music provided by the Pimps of Joytime. [...]

Park(ing) Day this Friday, September 18th!

Park(ing) Day this Friday, September 18th!

Ever wonder what our community could do with 120 square feet of outdoor space?

Our 2nd Environmental Fair at the Flatbush Frolic!

The 33rd Annual Flatbush Frolic will be held this Sunday, September 13th, 2009. The Frolic is a free, open air street festival with live bands, food, merchandise, games for the kids, and arts and crafts vendors exhibiting their wares, on Cortelyou Road in the heart of Brooklyn. The emphasis is on local restaurants, musicians, businesses [...]