Sustainable Flatbush

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Park(ing) Day is an event in which organizations from around the globe take over parking spots and transform them into mini-parks, open to all, to serve as a reminder of how public space could be better allocated to accommodate people instead of cars. Our spot was one of 50 throughout NYC. Park(ing) Day is one [...]

Sunday, September 14th, Sustainable Flatbush organized the first ever Environmental Fair at the 31st Annual Flatbush Frolic Street Fair. We partnered with organizations that represent our four main initiatives and brought them in to speak about their work and reach out to our community: Energy Solutions: Solar One Livable Streets: Transportation Alternatives Urban Gardens and [...]

It’s been a long gap between posts here, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been working! Sustainable Flatbush’s online presence has a completely new look thanks to our amazing designer Keka, and I’ve been creating new language to clarify our mission, vision, and goals.

IMPORTANT DATE CHANGES: There will NOT be a meeting for the Flatbush (Comm)Unity Garden tomorrow (July 8th). Sorry for any confusion and inconvenience!! The next Sustainable Flatbush monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday July 22nd… and it’s gonna be a BARBEQUE! Come out, meet your environmentally-inclined neighbors, and bring something to eat, drink, or [...]