Imagine Flatbush 2030
(Imagine Flatbush logo by Imani Aegedoy)
Last night was the first meeting of Imagine Flatbush 2030, a “community visioning project” sponsored by the Municipal Arts Society and Flatbush Development Corporation. The project’s purpose is to engage neighborhood stakeholders (to my delight, I was asked to be on the Advisory Committee… guess that makes me [...]
Town Hall Meeting Report
Last night’s Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting was a rousing success. We had 25 people in attendance, maxing out our host’s supply of chairs. In addition to a great crew of motivated neighborhood residents, we also had the Director of Brooklyn College’s Center for the Study of Brooklyn, the Pedestrian Advocate from Transportation Alternatives, several [...]
TONIGHT: Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting!
Just a reminder:
Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting is TONIGHT!!
Please join us:
WHAT: Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting
WHEN: Monday, November 12th at 7pm
WHERE: 462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester)
Tonight’s meeting will focus primarily on the formation of committees to carry out service projects and set long-term sustainability goals for our neighborhood. Proposed committees include:
• [...]
Go Green Brooklyn!
Local environmental blogger Ethan Oringel of Green Brooklyn was interviewed in yesterday’s Metro New York for an article called “Blogarithms: Going green, not just by recycling”. My favorite quote:
If everybody used the term landfill instead of garbage, they would think twice before throwing things away.
Town Hall Meeting November 12th!
Sustainable Flatbush is about to enter an exciting new phase of our activities in the neighborhood, and we’d love for YOU to be involved! Please join us:
WHAT: Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting
WHEN: Monday, November 12th at 7pm
WHERE: 462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester)
Longtime Flatbush resident Mark Levy has come onboard, bringing [...]
Say No to Excessive Packaging!
One big source of trash for those of us who shop online and mail order is excessive packing materials. Some companies are worse offenders than others, and hopefully this instance cited on Organic Picks is not the norm:
photo: Organic Picks
Yes, the small Pyrex bowl on the left is the purchased item!
As the post points out, [...]
2007 Green Buildings Open House
GreenHome NYC’s annual tour of green buildings has several options this year, offering bus, bike and walking tours in three boroughs, plus an afterparty beginning at 2 pm at Habana Outpost in Brooklyn. (See the list of tours here.)
The Brooklyn bike tour features the Nassau Brewery Icehouse Apartments in Crown Heights, 93 Nevins — “the [...]
The Great Change: The World Beyond Petroleum
The Great Change: The World Beyond Petroleum
An evening with Albert Bates
Where:
Friends Meeting House
15 Rutherford Place, Manhattan
(15th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Sponsors:
Sierra Club NYC Group
Beyond Oil NYC
Neighborhood Energy Network
Tri-State Food Not Lawns
Friends in Unity with Nature
Cost:
free, but donations to support Albert’s travel costs welcome
With a style both humorous and deadly serious, Albert Bates walks us [...]
Be Cool program - Replace Your Inefficient A/C
If you or your apartment building are looking to replace older, inefficient air conditioners, now is a good time… NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) is providing financial incentives to upgrade old A/Cs to Energy Star models, which use at least 10% less energy.
Why would NYSERDA and Con Ed give me money [...]
A Challenge from Guest Blogger Carolyn Gilles
Carolyn Gilles is a co-founder of the GreenEdge Collaborative, an event planner, and an organic chef. In this post she challenges herself and all of us to take some steps toward making our own lives more sustainable:
Be Mindfully Competitive with Yourself!
As some of you know, for the past 2+ years I’ve been studying and keeping [...]
