Seafood Guides

Many people learning to reduce their environmental impacts are switching from eating beef and other large animals to eating smaller animals, such as poultry and fish. But, when considering sustainability issues, it is important to carefully consider your seafood choices, too.

Luckily, Monterey Bay Aquarium's famous pocket guide is branching out! Now you can print different guides depending on your geographical location within the US. There's even a specialty guide for sushi!

Even better for those of you with smart phones: you can also get a mobile guide app!

Enjoy eating responsibly!

Seafood

Choosing your foods carefully can greatly influence your environmental impact. One important arena for responsible eating is in the area of seafood. In fact, overfishing and irresponsible fish farming are major problems worldwide.

The Food Luvin article Top Ten Sustainable Fish Choices and Ten Fish You Should Avoid Eating gives a thorough overview of the issues as well as, obviously, an enumeration of some responsible types of fish and some of the worse.

Likewise, Green Is Sexy's Plenty of Fish in the Sea links us to a Canadian seafood guide you can carry with you for shopping and eating out. The famous American equivalent is Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood WATCH. A great, simple list format makes it a quick and easy guide. Just print it out and enjoy dinner responsibly.

Handy Pocket Guides

With so many unsustainable features of American culture, it can be daunting to try to remember what's good and what's harmful in any given sector. Luckily, there's help. Experts can focus on one issue at a time and boil their recommendations down to handy-dandy pocket-sized guides.

From seafoods to plastics, produce to cosmetics, check out these pocket guides from Green Home.