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Green Fort Greene & Clinton Hill sprang from the Fort Greene Association in mid-2007 with the goal of reducing our neighborhood's contribution to global warming and our use of nonrenewable resources. Our immediate focus has been on measures that everyone could easily adopt and which everyone can see. Much more to come. More ideas most welcome.

Green Fort Greene & Clinton Hill is the good work of your neighbors. Volunteer a small amount of time and together we will make a big difference.

Let's recount what we have done and applaud our New York's Greenest, who have brought us this far.

• 1200 sites for new trees were submitted to the Parks Department. 240 trees planted. We're waiting for Park's schedule for the next phases.
  
  
• Green Streets -- a wonderful gem park -- is being built at Seven Corners (Fulton, South Oxford and Hanson Place). A planted median is installed on Carlton between Myrtle and Park.
  
  
• Bike racks have sprouted:  we had 56 large racks and 16 small ones (total of 72) installed in 51 different sites.  In addition, a very shiny rack was put in at Dekalb and Flatbush, and the Parks Department promises more at the entrances to Fort Greene Park and at the visitors center.
  
  
• Green Power -- Several hundred applications for Con Ed Solutions Green Power were distributed. Con Ed Solutions did an 11,000 piece mailing together with Green FG&CH encouraging the switch. Sign up for Green Power/variable rate here.
  
  
• We sold our first 3,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs at low cost. 
  
  
• 2,000 "no ad" signs distributed to stop unwanted circulars from appearing on our doorsteps. 
  
  
• Bottles, cans and paper are now recycled in Fort Greene Park, Cuyler Gore Park and Underwood Playground. 
  
  
• A Green Map was created, showing our our environmentally friendly resources and environmentally sound achievements.
  
  
• Green Fort Greene & Clinton Hill is partnering with Pratt Institute's sustainability efforts, generating technical resources, manpower and market-place clout.
  
  
• We sold our first 200 very chic Green FG&CH reuseable shopping bags.
  
  
• We are looking good with a beautiful logo and graphics and this ever more useful website.
  
  
• City Hall has offered support.

Simultaneously,

• The Hill touted the panoply of green efforts in our neighborhood.
  
  
• Brooklyn Brownstone Garden District gave away 9,000 daffodil bulbs for planting in public view.
  
  
• Composting at Green Market passed 1,000 pounds per week.
  
  
• Pratt Institute announced it would reduce its carbon emissions by 30 percent in ten years.
  
  
• Pratt also released its plan for a major new building on Myrtle Avenue, to be built to the environmentally rigorous LEED Gold standard.
  
  
• Through MARP, Myrtle Avenue merchants are selling the same great reusable shopping bags Green FG&CH is offering.
  
  
• Two local buildings have sprouted solar electric installations.