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Eat at a local, sustainable restaurant when traveling

Why This is Green

If you’re the kind of person who likes to eat local, sustainable food, being on vacation doesn’t have to mean taking a vacation from your preferred edibles. Do a little research before you travel so you can frequent restaurants serving your kind of grub—organic vegetables that haven’t been heavily sprayed with synthetic pesticides, meat from animals that weren’t raised on factory farms or administered hormones or antibiotics, and maybe some ecologically produced wine to wash it all down with--throughout your trip.

Food isn’t the only thing that can give a restaurant a big old eco footprint. According to The Green Restaurant Association (GRA), the restaurant industry consumes a third of all U.S. energy used by the retail sector and the average food service facility uses 300,000 gallons of water per year. Couple this with the fact that Americans are said to eat 30 percent of their meals away from home, spending more than 40 percent of their food dollars at restaurants. Support restaurants taking steps to reduce their ecological footprint.

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How To

Seek out and make reservations at sustainable restaurants before you leave home. Certain organizations, including GRA, make this easy on eaters. GRA rewards restaurants with points in seven environmental categories: water efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, sustainable furnishings and building materials, sustainable food, energy, disposables, and chemical-pollution reduction.

If your hotel room has a fridge or a mini kitchen, stock up at local farmers’ markets for breakfast and snacks.