Sustainable Flatbush

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

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 [...]

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. [...]

Sharifa Murray, a graduate student at Brooklyn College in the Health and Nutrition Department is working on her Master’s in Public Health. During the fall 2009 semester she is currently interning with Sustainable Flatbush.
She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Studio Art at SUNY Stony Brook. While attending Stony Brook she became interested in [...]

Do you brush past that same old tree every day as you come and go from home, but forget that it’s even there? Would you like to know its name, its history, and admire its resplendent beauty at the peak of this colorful Fall season?

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 [...]

Mark Miretsky, an undergraduate senior at New York University in the Environmental Studies Program, is interning with Sustainable Flatbush for the fall 2009 semester.
While attending high school in San Francisco, where he was an active volunteer with the Parks and Recreation Department and its partner organization the California Native Plant Society, Mark’s interest in urban [...]

Street-Tree Walking Tour this Saturday, April 25th!
Join us in our second year of celebrating Arbor Day and the magnificent street trees of Brooklyn’s Victorian Flatbush.

Sustainable Flatbush was recently selected to receive a 2009 environmental grant from Patagonia Clothing & Gear. Thanks, Patagonia!
We are grateful and proud to be recognized by a company with high environmental standards that supports grassroots activism:  “Our definition of quality includes a mandate for building products and working with processes that cause the least harm [...]

2008 was a wonderful and productive year for Sustainable Flatbush! Our work ranged from activism and advocacy to fun community-building activities. We also redesigned our website, created a Facebook page and a monthly e-newsletter, set up a listserv for planning events, polished up our mission statement, outlined our initiatives, and clarified our vision for the [...]