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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:
• [...]

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.

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 [...]

I’ll admit it: I find the Freegan movement fascinating. The mainstream media has also been flirting with this particular manifestation of environmentalism lately, though i suspect that relationship will be short-lived. Freeganism has been a featured topic in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, Newsweek, and MSNBC, amongst others. If “Sex and the City” [...]

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, [...]

According to this NY Times article, Seattle is leading the nation when it comes to recycling. It is among a growing number of cities, particularly on the West Coast, who do curbside collection of food scraps mixed with yard waste; this mixture is delivered to a high-tech composting facility, Cedar Grove Organics, and two months [...]

Trash is no trivial issue. Last month I attended a conference at Baruch College called A Panel On Long-Term, Sustainable Solutions For Managing New York’s Refuse, sponsored by State Senator Liz Kreuger; this discussion explored many angles of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra. One that came up repeatedly was the importance of composting — and [...]