Promoting sustainable living in our Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond.
Tonight is the second of four community visioning meetings for Imagine Flatbush 2030, to be held at Brooklyn College’s new Conference Center. Everyone is invited. Local blog Brooklyn Junction provides the perfect summary of why this process is so important: Come out to the meeting […]
In case the print is too small to read, I’ll repeat it here: Come and participate in a special dialogue about the future of Flatbush. The Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) and the Municipal Art Society (MAS) are inviting you to take part in Imagine Flatbush […]
Next Sustainable Flatbush monthly meeting:
Monday December 3rd, 7pm
462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester)
Committees will report on their activities and plans, including:
R3 Committee
Post-Holiday Electronics Recycling Event
January 5 and 6, 2008
Livable Streets Committee
Central Brooklyn Transportation Conference
to be held at Brooklyn College, early February 2008
Gardening Committee
Neighborhood Gardening Event
in collaboration with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
location TBA, late February 2008
The next monthly meeting will be Monday December 3rd. WHAT: Sustainable Flatbush Monthly Meeting WHEN: Monday, December 3rd at 7pm WHERE: 462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester) WHY: • Hear report and future plans from Gardening Committee Kickoff Meeting • Plan for December 8th […]
The kickoff meeting for Sustainable Flatbush’s Gardening Committee will be held this coming Monday, November 26th. All details available on Flatbush Gardener’s blog.
photo by Flatbush Gardener
(Did I mention that Flatbush Gardener was recently #3 in the Top 100 list of Gardening sites?)
(Imagine Flatbush logo by Imani Aegedoy) Last night was the first meeting of Imagine Flatbush 2030, a “community visioning project” sponsored by the Municipal Arts Society and Flatbush Development Corporation. The project’s purpose is to engage neighborhood stakeholders (to my delight, I was asked to […]
Last night’s Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting was a rousing success. We had 25 people in attendance, maxing out our host’s supply of chairs. In addition to a great crew of motivated neighborhood residents, we also had the Director of Brooklyn College’s Center for the […]
Just a reminder:
Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting is TONIGHT!!
Please join us:
WHAT: Sustainable Flatbush Town Hall Meeting
WHEN: Monday, November 12th at 7pm
WHERE: 462 Marlborough Road (between Ditmas and Dorchester)
Tonight’s meeting will focus primarily on the formation of committees to carry out service projects and set long-term sustainability goals for our neighborhood. Proposed committees include:
• R3 (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
• Sustainable Gardening
• Energy: Efficiency, Alternatives
• Transportation/Livable Streets
• Local Business Outreach
• Schools Outreach
We will also discuss upcoming actions (including our participation in Flatbush Development Corporation’s holiday event at Newkirk Plaza on December 8th) and formation of partnerships with like-minded local and citywide organizations, and hear a report on the highly-anticipated Flatbush Community Garden.
Hope to see you there!
I am disappointed to read that some of our Brooklyn elected officials are still claiming congestion pricing would place an “unfair burden on the poor” — Assemblyman Nick Perry (D–East Flatbush) calls congestion pricing “a wanton exploitation of tax-paying New York City drivers†and Assemblyman […]
