Comments on: Disney suggests simple ways to Green your Vacation http://thedisneyblog.com/2009/03/27/disney-suggests-simple-ways-to-green-your-vacation/ Disney News and Information -- by fans, for fans Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Amphigorey http://thedisneyblog.com/2009/03/27/disney-suggests-simple-ways-to-green-your-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-14205 Amphigorey Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:36:44 +0000 http://thedisneyblog.com/?p=6267#comment-14205 A big way to keep your vacation green is to take along a Seafood Watch Guide - these are pocket-sized guides published by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and they're quite wonderful. Disney serves plenty of non-sustainable seafood, unfortunately, so the way to make a difference is to pay attention to what you're buying. If you like seafood, you can easily find sustainable substitutes for your favorite fish. The Seafood Watch guides make it very easy; they're downloadable, they're updated yearly, and they even publish regional guides. They also just came out with a sushi-specific guide! http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx Of course, Disney ought to be more aggressive about this issue and rework their menus to reflect sustainable choices... but in the meantime, we as consumers can make our own choices. A big way to keep your vacation green is to take along a Seafood Watch Guide – these are pocket-sized guides published by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and they’re quite wonderful. Disney serves plenty of non-sustainable seafood, unfortunately, so the way to make a difference is to pay attention to what you’re buying. If you like seafood, you can easily find sustainable substitutes for your favorite fish.

The Seafood Watch guides make it very easy; they’re downloadable, they’re updated yearly, and they even publish regional guides. They also just came out with a sushi-specific guide!
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx

Of course, Disney ought to be more aggressive about this issue and rework their menus to reflect sustainable choices… but in the meantime, we as consumers can make our own choices.

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