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On the Path to Energy Efficiency and Affordability
Join us for the Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20
About a year ago, Sustainable Flatbush’s Executive Director Anne Pope and I sat at Sycamore Bar and Flower Shop on Cortelyou Road.
Greening Flatbush is a Hit!
Hello Sustainable Flatbush community!
Thank you so much to everyone that joined us at the second annual Greening Flatbush event on Sunday, February 21st!
Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20th, 2010!
Exciting things are happening this spring at Sustainable Flatbush! We are assembling a Neighborhood Energy Forum to take place on Saturday, March 20th, 2010.
October/November 2009: Sharifa’s Report
In my internship class the professor asked who wanted to do an environmental internship with Sustainable Flatbush and my hand shot up. After reading Sustainable Flatbush’s initiatives and looking through the vibrant website, I knew wanted to try to get an internship with this organization. So that night I went home and the first thing [...]
September 2009: Mark’s report
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 [...]
Flatbush FreeMeet 2009!
Spring Cleaning?
Don’t throw it away! Bring it to the
FLATBUSH FREEMEET
sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush and Freecycle™ New York City
WHEN
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Everyone loves a Worm Composting Potluck!
Despite the somewhat counter-intuitive program, yesterday’s Worm Composting Potluck was a great success!
After enjoying a delicious meal, we got a tour
2008 in review
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 2008: Cortelyou Rd. Park!
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 of [...]
I Wanna Be a Solar Empowerment Zone!
Last week I attended a special hearing of the New York City Council’s Infrastructure Task Force, on the topic of Distributed Energy Generation in NYC – essentially, how to encourage it.
