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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 [...]

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?

Ever wonder what our community could do with 120 square feet of outdoor space?

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 [...]

Help us win a grant to build this Solar PowerBike for the Flatbush community! Sustainable Flatbush has entered a proposal in National Geographic’s Green Effect environmental grant contest.

Flatbush resident Deb Kapell invites YOU to join her Bike to Work ride this Wednesday!

I was recently contacted by filmmaker Michelle Vey, whose new documentary From Elegance to Earthworms profiles a collection of eco-friendly companies based in the Northeast. These businesses range from Terracycle, who makes all-natural plant fertilizers from worm compost and packages their products in reused soda bottles, to biodynamic growers Hawthorne Farm, to Birdbath Bakery, a [...]

Announcing: Sustainable Flatbush e-Cards!

Future Visions film discussion series comes to Brooklyn! Presented by Sustainable Flatbush Co-sponsored by Ditmas Park West Neighborhood Association and Flatbush Food Coop The Future Visions Film/Discussion Series was created by Sierra Club NYC Group, Neighborhood Energy Network, Beyond Oil NYC, and Tri-State Food Not Lawns as a vehicle to educate and then engage people [...]

Tomorrow night, Saturday March 28th from 8:30 to 9:30 pm, is Earth Hour. Participants in this international demonstration will turn off their lights for one hour as an environmental statement.