Miami itself has a growing blogging community. We recently conducted Miami Cross-Blogination, a day of switcheroo in the local blogosphere. While you’re here, take a moment to visit some of our local blogs! Today, as you read the Carnival, we’ll take you on a tour of the sights. Enjoy!

First stop on our tour, the place that everyone associates with Miami. South Beach. And one thing that SoBe has a lot of? Sushi restaurants. This week, Ecostreet brings us a story on sustainable sushi: A look at how a chain of UK sushi restaurants are helping to save the bluefin tuna.

Next we’ll head over to the newest up and coming neighborhood in Miami – The Design District. This is the hot spot that is getting filled with galleries and small, hip businesses. green | rising discusses for-profit social ventures, using Google’s recent move as a positive, for-profit example of social entrepreneurship. (Flickr, mle626)

From here we’ll go to downtown Miami, where most government offices are located, along with several museums and typical downtown shops. We’re here because we need to stop by the courthouse. Sludgie reports on a judge’s recent decision to reinstate a Clinton-era ban on road construction, logging, mining and development in roadless national forest areas.

Now we’ll drive down to Brickell Avenue and cross over the bridge to Key Biscayne. This is the hot spot for local cyclists, and I thought our next blogger might want to stop for a cortadito (cuban coffee) with some of the others. Preston of Jetson Green wants everyone to know this is the last week before he rides in the Livestrong Challenge in Austin. He is offering 1-month of advertising on Jetson Green to those who make a donation to the Lance Armstrong Challenge through Preston’s fundraising page.

Staying on Key Biscayne, Preston might want to stop by the Crandon Park Tennis Center, home of the Nasdaq 100. In the next post, he takes us on a tour of a sustainable residence + spa + tennis court designed by architect Robert Rhodes. (Flickr, sauronlivez)

Since we’re right by Biscayne Bay, we should take a minute to enjoy the bay and ocean views. Alexandra Cousteau of Earth Echo tells us how carbon emissions affect the pH balance of the oceans and how to offset them.

Next we’ll travel down south a bit to Homestead, Florida and the Redlands. This is the agricultural section of Miami, and has a growing agro-tourism market. Speaking of agriculture, Judy Kingsbury of Savvy Vegetarian looks into issues with genetically engineered rice. She asks, "Are we just a bunch of fat, complacent, ignorant guinea pigs, happy to be deceived and manipulated as long as we’re comfortable in our cages?" (Flickr, dreamless studio)

Since we’re down this way, we should stop by the world famous Everglades…the River of Grass. One thing the Everglades has is a lot of is wildlife! Biologist Sally Kneidel of Veggie Revolution lists ten powerful ways to help wildlife, both locally and globally. (Flickr, Genista)

greenerMIAMI actually wrote about the Everglades Skyway this week, with the help of Sierra Club’s Kristina Trotta. The Skyway is a project hoping to raise 11 miles of a highway that cuts across Florida to bring back some of the natural flow of water to the Everglades. (Flickr, krashe1313)

Now we’ll go watch a ball game with the Florida Marlins. Okay, well, maybe not now…but I’m not the only one with baseball on the brain. Jenni Lukac of Triple Pundit discusses the ethical supply chain from Europe to the US, including the Pittsburgh Pirates. (Flickr, Fraggle Red)

Speaking of sports, anyone heard of Dwayne Wade? He made headlines this year as he led the Miami Heat to the National title. He lives in Pinecrest, one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Miami. They even temporarily named it "Wadecrest". Affluent = big houses = lawns. You see where I’m going here. Phil for Humanity gives us some how-to tips on recycling yard waste. (Flickr, your pal Matt)

For these last couple of posts, we’re going to finish up our tour with a road trip. First, we’re going to go up north to Brevard County, just about a 3 hour drive. Here, we’re going to stop in on our friends Brevard Biodiesel. They are a group of local residents that educate the public on biodiesel, as well as order bulk shipments of the fuel (which is not available for retail in the state). We figured that the author of our next post might be interested in meeting them. Thoughts from Kansas takes a really interesting look at energy policy, with some politics and E85 mixed in. (Flickr, hodad66)

Finally, traveling just a few more minutes north, we arrive at Cape Canaveral, home of NASA. Greener Magazine gives us the skinny on the European Space Agency’s plans to conduct a weightless surgical procedure. I wonder if they are planning to purchase carbon credits to offset all of that fuel? (Flickr, dcorking)

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the 47th edition of Carnival of the Green. I’d also like to thank all of the photographers of the photos highlighted in this post. All were taken locally and are credited individually by their Flickr owner. Those without credits are my own. We’ll see you next week over at EnviroPundit!

Today the Carnival of the Green is being hosted over at our groovy friend’s site, Powering Down.

Check out some posts I’ve written over at Groovy Green:

• Greener Hurricanes
• Green Celebrities
• 2006 World Cup Green Report
• How to: Be a Green Hotel Guest
• Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car?

Recent Herald articles:

• Organic Ice Cream Shop in South Miami
• Thinking Beyond the Next Meal

The green blogosphere is one that is constantly growing. The Carnival of the Green is published each week to highlight posts from green blogs around the world. This week is was located at the Animal Broadcast Network.

BusinessWeek has been doing a series of podcasts focusing on green blogs. The latest podcast features CityHippy’s Al Tepper, who was kind enough to mention greenerMIAMI. Previous podcasts in the series featured interviews with Gristmill founder Dave Roberts, and Treehugger’s Graham Hill.

greenerMIAMI keeps a Green Blogroll that is updated frequently with eco-blogs as we find them. The link is available through our Green Resources section in the sidebar. Check them out!

The Worsted Witch talks about vinyl/PVC, a topic I’ve been wanting to hit on/research for ages.

The Practical Environmentalist points us to this BusinessWeek article about the myths & realities of Ethanol. Another topic I’ve been wanting to discuss, with all of these Live Green, Go Yellow commercials.

Nicomachus posts on the Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s movie that I am very interested in seeing. (We mentioned it just last week on our Green Celebrities post.)

Carnival #23 at Organic Authority

Carnival #24 at The Evangelical Ecologist

Carnival #25 at Spiral Visions

Click with caution…beware of pop-ups: Carnival #26 at Hippy Shopper

This week you’ll find a review of the Weather Makers (book on global warming), which I have now requested from Miami Dade Public Library…they have lots of copies!

The Worsted Witch explains how sustainable fabrics (organic, etc.) are made.

Commonground leads us to a fun one that’s been mentioned in quite a few green blogs this week: Environmentalists use the Chevy Tahoe online "commercial-maker" to create a stir.

Fellow Floridian Harlan over at Greener Magazine explains how the Haz-to-Go hazardous waste disposal works in Pinellas County. I think this might lead me to a best practice study, because they have some really cool resources and events on their site.

Check out the entire Carnival!

Powering Down has a long but interesting post about agriculture & petroleum. Suggestions at end of the article: educate yourself (on issues, don’t just listen to what people tell you), grow your own food, start a community garden, support local farmers, and don’t rely on others to provide you with your basic needs.

Simply in Season is a blog I hadn’t seen yet, promoting eating local food in season. I’d love to hear from readers on this…it is an interest of mine that I’m not sure if I share with other Miamians.

We are pointed to the downsides of bamboo, a traditionally very "green" resource, by commonground.

I was really disappointed to find out that a couple of Floridians shot two hawks last week because they were bothering the golf course residents.

These are just a few of the entries, you can see all of them here.

But as usual, there are lots of great entries, so feel free to check them all out.

Highlights include Groovy Green’s cool link to a video on some people who figured out how to grow plants & trees in the desert region next to the Dead Sea. Sustainablog tells us how to turn our kids into Treehuggers. Jon Swift contributes an incredible satirical post on Global Warming. I found it very "a la Daily Show", which I love. GreenThinkers talks about a bicycle lending program in Denmark that I think is a great Biz Idea and will highlight again soon.