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	<title>Sustainable Flatbush</title>
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		<title>What National Grid Can Do For You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited to be quickly approaching our major event of the spring, the Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20th. The goal of this event is to hook you up with information and resources to make your home more energy efficient. Leading up to the Forum we&#8217;ll be publishing a series of blog posts about different programs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/03/10/what-national-grid-can-do-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Maria and Nicole invite YOU to our Monthly Volunteer Gathering!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey friends and neighbors!
We’re excited to invite you to another Monthly Volunteer Gathering at Vox Pop Cafe with Sustainable Flatbush! (Our second one, yay!) We’re going to be talking a lot about our next big event of the spring, the Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20th. We all want to learn about how to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/03/07/maria-and-nicole-invite-you-to-our-monthly-volunteer-gathering/</link>
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		<title>Spring 2010 intern: Afroza!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, My name is Afroza Amin and I&#8217;m going to be interning with this great organization for the Spring 2010 semester. I&#8217;m an undergraduate junior at Brooklyn College, majoring in psychology and accounting.
I&#8217;m ashamed to say I&#8217;ve never really thought about sustainability issues as being such a big problem. However, a year ago I went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/03/05/spring-2010-intern-afroza/</link>
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		<title>On the Path to Energy Efficiency and Affordability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join us for the Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20

About a year ago, Sustainable Flatbush&#8217;s Executive Director Anne Pope and I sat at Sycamore Bar and Flower Shop on Cortelyou Road.

I had just become the Director of Energy Solutions at SF, and we were strategizing about the best ways to meet the urgent need for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/26/on-the-path-to-energy-efficiency-and-affordability/</link>
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		<title>DIY Sustainable Decorations!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books, Coffee, Democracy, and Sustainable Decorations at Vox Pop Cafe!
While we were getting ready for our second annual Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are Event, we had to decide what would make our space look like Sustainable Flatbush was coming through without creating a lot of waste.
Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/26/diy-sustainable-decorations/</link>
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		<title>Land of the Free, Home of the&#8230;Cars?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you get 1 Brooklyn College  + extra land x neighbors who care about the environment?  A Brooklyn College community garden! Or rather, the Campus Road Community Garden.
The Campus Road Community Garden was founded in 1997, under the auspices of the South Midwood Residents Association (SMRA), according to the Daily News. The agreement to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/23/land-of-the-free-home-of-the-cars/</link>
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		<title>Greening Flatbush is a Hit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Sustainable Flatbush community!
Thank you so much to everyone that joined us at the second annual Greening Flatbush event on Sunday, February 21st! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and learned a lot about what we can do to actively ensure that our food is local&#8211;grow it ourselves:) I had a lot of fun spending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/23/greening-flatbush-is-a-hit/</link>
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		<title>Can the Electrical Grid Be as &#8220;Smart&#8221; as Your Cell Phone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, and make it quick!
If the designers of our telegraph and telephone system traveled more than hundred years into our time, they could not begin to imagine how our &#8220;smart phones&#8221; put the world into our hands.  But our electrical grid has pretty much remained the same since its inception in the late 1800s.  And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/15/can-the-electrical-grid-be-as-smart-as-your-cell-phone/</link>
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		<title>Spring 2010 Intern: Dassa!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Brooklyn! I&#8217;m Dassa, and I&#8217;m excited to say that this semester, I&#8217;m interning here at Sustainable Flatbush! I&#8217;m an undergraduate sophomore at Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College, pursuing a major in psychology, with a couple of fun minors to shake things up.
I&#8217;ve been interested in urban sustainability, especially public parks and recycling/composting, since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/12/spring-2010-intern-dassa/</link>
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		<title>Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Flatbush presents our second annual Greening Flatbush event on Sunday, February 21st!
Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are is an afternoon of short demonstrations and hands-on workshops on a variety of gardening and urban agriculture topics, including:

- gardening for kids
- starting seeds indoors
- growing herbs and microgreens on your windowsill
- vertical gardening
- growing sprouts in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainableflatbush.org/2010/02/07/greening-flatbush/</link>
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