Post-Holiday Recycling Event!
Are you expecting a new iPod or DVD player or computer from Santa? Don’t throw the old one in the garbage — save it for Sustainable Flatbush’s Post-Holiday E-Waste Recycling event! If the stars align correctly, we will make some local pickups with a cargo bike!
Sustainable Flatbush Cortelyou Road E-Waste Recycling Event, Summer 2007
WHEN:
Saturday [...]
Imagine Flatbush 2030 Community Meeting
In case the print is too small to read, I’ll repeat it here:
Come and participate in a special dialogue about the future of Flatbush. The Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) and the Municipal Art Society (MAS) are inviting you to take part in Imagine Flatbush 2030 — a community visioning and dialogue process — designed to [...]
Sustainable Flatbush Monthly Meeting
The next monthly meeting will be Monday December 3rd.
WHAT:
Sustainable Flatbush Monthly Meeting
WHEN:
Monday, December 3rd at 7pm
WHERE:
462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester)
WHY:
• Hear report and future plans from Gardening Committee Kickoff Meeting
• Plan for December 8th holiday event at Newkirk Plaza and Post-Holiday Electronics Recycling
• Discuss Imagine Flatbush 2030 visioning meetings
• Discuss plans for Livable [...]
Gardening Committee Kickoff Meeting!
The kickoff meeting for Sustainable Flatbush’s Gardening Committee will be held this coming Monday, November 26th. All details available on Flatbush Gardener’s blog.
photo by Flatbush Gardener
(Did I mention that Flatbush Gardener was recently #3 in the Top 100 list of Gardening sites?)
Electronics Recycling Events
Lower East Side Ecology Center has been a great pioneer and community partner in e-waste recycling. This year they held a series of three-day collections in new locations throughout the city, including our own event on Cortelyou Road last June, the first e-waste recycling event held in South Brooklyn. LESEC will sponsor three more electronics [...]
Neighborhood Gardening in Bloom
Flatbush Community Garden Planning Begins
Plans are in the works for a community garden here in Flatbush! The site is a privately owned property on Albemarle Road off of Marlborough, near the subway tracks; Flatbush Development Corporation, Friends of Cortelyou, and owners of local restaurant The Farm on Adderley will all be involved with this project, [...]
Jan Gehl speaks in NYC tomorrow night!
YES, that would be the very same Jan Gehl mentioned in a post last week! At this lecture he will propose an inspiring vision for New York City’s future, based on his 30-year international career “making neighborhoods lively, diverse and safe”. He also has a great sense of humor!
For starters, Gehl posits that [...]
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 [...]
Step It Up 2007 at Grand Army Plaza
Some of you may have participated in the Step It Up rallies held back in April of this year, when people all over the country gathered in iconic locations, calling on Congress to “Cut Carbon 80% by 2050″. Next weekend will be the next phase of events, and Brooklyn is hosting a big one:
On [...]
