Flatbush Community Garden Meeting!
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Tag: NYC
Recycle Your CFLs at Brooklyn Green Drinks!
I’ve received a number of inquiries lately from folks wondering where to recycle CFL bulbs locally (the bulbs contain a small amount of mercury, and shouldn’t be thrown out with the trash). This Wednesday the answer is at Brooklyn Green Drinks, hosted by Center for […]
Flatbush Food Co-op Grand Opening tomorrow!
The folks who’ve been bringing organic food to our neighborhood since 1976 are holding the official celebration of their large and beautiful new store tomorrow! Here’s the details:
All are invited to the grand opening celebration to mark Flatbush Food Coop’s move into our newly renovated space at 1415 Cortelyou Rd. The FFC is a community-owned natural foods store that has been providing Brooklyn and greater New York residents with quality organic and natural foods since 1976. The beautiful new space is diagonally across the street and three times the size of its former location, at 1318 Cortelyou Road.
The event will include a ribbon cutting with public officials (1 PM), music, free samples, product demos, raffles, and children’s activities, as well as an opportunity to explore the aisles and purchase from the store’s many offerings. Special new features include a prepared-food and deli section, soup and salad bar, organic coffee and juice bar, and a greatly expanded bulk section with unpackaged nuts, grains, and seeds, as well as herbs and spices. The grab-and-go section spotlights ready-made meals, while other new products include fresh popcorn and peanut butter, bulk cheeses, fresh fish, and organic meats, as well as fresh-baked artisan breads and desserts.
Over the course of its 31-year history, FFC has evolved from an 11-member preorder buying club operating out of the basement of a Midwood home to a thriving store that is open to the public but boasts more than 3,000 member-owners. It has been an anchor business on Cortelyou Road for more than two decades.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Noon to 5 p.m.
Ribbon Cutting: 1 p.m.
Buying Fair Trade Coffee at the Flatbush Food Co-op, photo by arimoore
The Steeplechase – Bed-Stuy Bike Ride!
This is a community-organized, family-friendly, leisurely neighborhood bike ride, happening next Saturday morning. A great opportunity to see the architecture and sights in Bedford Stuyvesant, one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful and historic brownstone neighborhoods. Bed-Stuy Blog has the news: To celebrate Bike Month, Bedford-Stuyvesant will […]
Look What I Found in the NY Times!
Sustainable Transportation tidbits from this weekend: Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business — if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers — or buying new ones — to […]
Public Meeting to discuss Ocean/Parkside improvements
Our neighbors to the north at Hawthorne Street blog in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens (part of Flatbush? You decide…) have been discussing the horrifically dangerous entrance to Prospect Park at Ocean and Parkside Avenues for some months now, and have formed a local Livable Streets group called PLG Public Works to address this and other traffic-related issues. Today they provide details on an upcoming public meeting to discuss potential re-design ideas for the dreaded intersection:
Some help may be on the way for the Ocean & Parkside intersection at Prospect Park: park reps have informed us that the entrance will be redesigned as part of a massive Park development project due to begin next year.
Of course, how it will be redesigned remains to be seen. We’d urge anyone and everyone concerned about the Park entrance to attend the upcoming public meeting: Monday, May 19, 6:30 p.m. at Wollman Rink.
The current situation is a nightmare for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers alike, and Transportation Alternatives has lobbied for improvements here in the past. But new opportunity for change exists due to an upcoming project called Lakeside Center, which will be replacing Wollman Rink. While the green design principles described on their website sound nice and all (LEED Gold buildings, rainwater retention basin to irrigate landscaping, passive ventilation, recycled and local materials, native trees and shrubs), for starters I’d be happy just to be able to get across the street and into the Park without risking my life! Once again, the public meeting is on May 19th at 6:30, Wollman Rink.
A Photoblog Tribute to Brooklyn
One of the highlights of last night’s Brooklyn Blogfest was this piece, put together by Brooklyn Optimist and made up entirely of photos from lovely and talented Brooklyn photobloggers (including locals Flatbush Gardener and Fading Ad Blog). Take 5 minutes and have a look.
U.N. checks out urban agriculture in Brooklyn!
Bed-Stuy Blog reports that an Urban Farm Tour of community gardens in Brooklyn will be on the itinerary of visitors from the United Nations: For two weeks in May, delegates from across the world will be visiting NYC as part of the United Nations Commission […]
Brooklyn Blogfest 2008
photo by Flatbush Gardener
When I attended last year’s Brooklyn Blogfest at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Sustainable Flatbush had been online for only a few weeks. Most of the names and people and language of the blogging world were very new to me, everyone at the event seemed to be from Fort Greene or Prospect Heights, and covering Atlantic Yards was the primary reason for many of the blogs’ existence.
This year’s Blogfest (held at the Brooklyn Lyceum) was much larger and more diverse, and the one topic we could all agree on was that the word “blog” has become inadequate to describe the many different forms an online journal can take. Brooklyn blogs range from highly trafficked sites that specialize in real estate trends to painfully personal virtual diaries, and everything in between. Text, drawings, photos, and video are all part of the expressive palette, and Brooklyn bloggers wield these tools with great expertise, creativity, and humor. It’s a pretty impressive bunch. Did I mention that I had a great time?
Like a true sustainability geek, I was thrilled to meet the Chair of Brooklyn’s Solid Waste Advisory Board and chat briefly about anaerobic digestion. But mostly it was great to get introduced to new people/blogs such as Brooklyn Ron, CyclechicNY, and Gardenfork; to see the faces behind recent favorites like Clinton Hill Chill Blog, BedStuy Banana, and Flatbush Pigeon; and to hang out with the folks from Reclaimed Home, Fading Ad Blog, and those perky youngsters from Supervegan. A lovely evening, and an inspiration to continue with this adventure of blogging.
Springtime in Newkirk Plaza
A musician enjoys the sunshine. P1010421, originally uploaded from Flickr by Sustainable Flatbush. Spring flowers in front of Almac Hardware. P1010422, originally uploaded from Flickr by Sustainable Flatbush.
