Sustainable Spaces: Miami
Explore the Frost Science community's favorite sustainable shops, restaurants, and open spaces
Sustainability
There are many ways to live sustainably. The goal of this map is to help you highlight your favorite aspects of sustainability and explore what this means to others.
What does sustainability mean to you?
Sustainability is the practice of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It encompasses a commitment to preserving natural resources, minimizing environmental impact, and fostering social and economic well-being.
Sustainability is crucial because it addresses the pressing challenges of our time. By adopting sustainable practices, we can reduce our ecological footprint, promote responsible consumption, and create a more equitable and resilient world for generations to come.
Community Mapping
It's not a term you hear very often, but it's part of our daily lives. How do you pick a new restaurant to try? You might ask friends, read yelp reviews, or search google for dinner near me. We rely on our community for recommendations and we prioritize using information like google ratings, personal values, or required attire. Subconsciously, we map them out based on factors like proximity to home or walkability. This is community mapping.
Community mapping is the practice of people coming together to co-create and share place-based information.
Community mapping and information sharing democratize access to information, enabling all individuals to have a voice and advocate for their interests. In essence, it empowers communities to take charge of their futures and create more vibrant and sustainable places to live.
When individuals come together to map their surroundings, document local resources, and share valuable information, it creates a collective consciousness. By openly sharing knowledge and resources, communities can enhance their resilience, make informed decisions, and promote sustainable development.
Share your favorite Sustainable Spaces
The Sustainability Committee is using crowd-sourced data to catalogue the Frost Science community's favorite spaces. From parks, restaurants, zero-waste shops, community gardens, farmers markets, secondhand stores and more, explore the map below to find sustainable spaces near you. Want to support this mapping project? Share your favorite sustainable space using the button below.
Explore Sustainable Spaces: Miami
Verde Market: South Miami
Verde Market: South Miami. Click to expand.
Verde Market is a zero waste grocery and sustainable lifestyle store. They have over 300 bulk foods and plastic free personal and home goods to help you live with less waste.
Verde Market: Midtown
Verde Market: Midtown. Click to expand.
Verde Market is a zero waste grocery and sustainable lifestyle store. They have over 300 bulk foods and plastic free personal and home goods to help you live with less waste.
Dragonfly Thrift Boutique
Dragonfly Thrift Boutique. Click to expand.
Shop for change! Dragonfly Thrift Boutique is a part of the Ladies Empowerment & Action Program (LEAP), a nonprofit empowering women to put prison in their past. All proceeds from Dragonfly Thrift benefit LEAP. This store runs a one-of-a-kind prison re-entry program for women combining essential employability and life skills, entrepreneurship, self-love, and mentorship.
LoKal by KUSH
LoKal by KUSH. Click to expand.
Lokal serves locally sourced burgers and craft beers, the perfect comfort food with a lower carbon footprint. The restaurant interior is full of upcycled and environmentally friendly materials, with decor and merchandize featuring local artists.
Simpson Park
Simpson Park. Click to expand.
Designated as an Old Forest Growth Community, Simpson Park is a natural preserve that encompasses over eighth acres of tropical hardwood hammock in the center of Miami’s Urban core, one of the last remnants of the famous Brickell Hammock.
Virginia Key Beach North Point Park
Virginia Key Beach North Point Park. Click to expand.
This park is a hidden gem in Miami with great views, recreation opportunities and sea turtle nests :)
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Click to expand.
The garden has a large-scale compost hub in the back where they allow anyone to bring their food scraps and reduce their contribution to our landfills.
North Beach Compost Hub
North Beach Compost Hub. Click to expand.
Miami Beach Botanical Garden has a North Beach compost collection site. Anyone who signs up will be giving the code to drop off their food scraps, and the Garden’s team completes the full process of composting on site.
Shore to Door
Shore to Door. Click to expand.
This is a small, family-owned seafood market that doubles as a restaurant on weekends. Seafood is fresh and locally caught.
Verde Market: South Miami
Verde Market is a zero waste grocery and sustainable lifestyle store. They have over 300 bulk foods and plastic free personal and home goods to help you live with less waste.
By buying in bulk and reusing your containers you are making a difference. You can get as much or as little as you need while reducing the amount of food and packaging waste.
Check out their bulk menu here .
Verde Market: Midtown
Verde Market is a zero waste grocery and sustainable lifestyle store. They have over 300 bulk foods and plastic free personal and home goods to help you live with less waste.
By buying in bulk and reusing your containers you are making a difference. You can get as much or as little as you need while reducing the amount of food and packaging waste.
Check out their bulk menu here .
Dragonfly Thrift Boutique
Shop for change! Dragonfly Thrift Boutique is a part of the Ladies Empowerment & Action Program (LEAP), a nonprofit empowering women to put prison in their past. All proceeds from Dragonfly Thrift benefit LEAP . This store runs a one-of-a-kind prison re-entry program for women combining essential employability and life skills, entrepreneurship, self-love, and mentorship.
LoKal by KUSH
Lokal serves locally sourced burgers and craft beers, the perfect comfort food with a lower carbon footprint. The restaurant interior is full of upcycled and environmentally friendly materials, with decor and merchandize featuring local artists.
KUSH Hospitality has become known as a local leader in eco-friendly practices, having received multiple awards acknowledging their conscious efforts. Their goal is to provide the ultimate guest experience with stellar service, made-from-scratch food, and works by local artists carefully chosen so that each concept reflects its specific location and unique perspective on Miami life.
Simpson Park
Designated as an Old Forest Growth Community, Simpson Park is a natural preserve that encompasses over eighth acres of tropical hardwood hammock in the center of Miami’s Urban core, one of the last remnants of the famous Brickell Hammock.
Preserving Simpson Park was one of the first conservation efforts in Miami. We love it because they have free nature walks guided by the park naturalists where you can learn about native habitats, the history, and significance of their rare native plants located within Miami's urban oasis.
Virginia Key Beach North Point Park
This park is a hidden gem in Miami with great views, recreation opportunities and sea turtle nests :)
Plus, you can volunteer with Frost Science's MUVE (Museum Volunteers for the Environment) program! This program engages with the community to explore and restore public lands across South Florida. Learn more here .
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
The garden has a large-scale compost hub in the back where they allow anyone to bring their food scraps and reduce their contribution to our landfills.
Admission is also free, allowing anyone to come and enjoy the native and non-native species they have growing there.
North Beach Compost Hub
Miami Beach Botanical Garden has a North Beach compost collection site. Anyone who signs up will be giving the code to drop off their food scraps, and the Garden’s team completes the full process of composting on site.
They also host workshops and workdays to get the community involved and teach them about the process, even offering free compost to those who attend.
Shore to Door
This is a small, family-owned seafood market that doubles as a restaurant on weekends. Seafood is fresh and locally caught.
