Community Building

Earth Day film screening of NO IMPACT MAN on April 21st!

Earth Day film screening of NO IMPACT MAN on April 21st!

Dear guests, potential guests, those who might knock into their senses and decide to drop by last minute… Sustainable Flatbush, Flatbush Food Co-op, and Ditmas Park West Neighborhood Association present a special Earth Day film screening of NO IMPACT MAN. This movie is all about taking a new look at the way we impact our [...]

Campus Road Garden Town Hall Meeting

Campus Road Garden Town Hall Meeting

You can’t miss it. At the corner of Campus Road and Avenue H rests a haven, a green paradise, a joy to behold — the Campus Road Community Garden. The garden has been growing at its current location since 1997!

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 [...]

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 [...]