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Find a Green Restaurant Wherever You Go

Finding green eats is easier than you think.

Josh Peterson

By Josh Peterson
Fayetteville, AR, USA | Tue Dec 02 12:30:00 GMT 2008

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You might be a traveler, bags packed, world weary, a drifter-type with stories of the road that would chill our very bones. You may also be an eco-conscious person who has wandered the globe and gained an appreciation for the nature and life that abounds there. You realize that the choices you make affect the environment you travel in. That's why it's important to eat green food and eat at green restaurants. Here are some tips.

Find a Certified Green Restaurant™ The Green Restaurant Association has a a searchable database that allows you to find green-flavored restaurants all over the United States. The standards to be a part of this guide are quite strict. The restaurants must recycle every product that they can possibly recycle, be polystyrene-free, commit to four environmental steps per year and complete one after joining the guide's list.

Go Vegetarian You may find yourself in a town or city without a Certified Green Restaurant™. A good rule of thumb is to not eat meat. Meat is more costly to grow than grains vegetables. In fact, you have to grow grains in order to grow meat. So you kind of lose out trophically. A vegan or vegetarian restaurant is an environmentally savvy choice no matter where you are. You can find them through VegGuide.Org.

Eat locally You might find yourself in small-town Iowa. They don't have many vegan restaurants in counties with a cow-based economy. The benefit to living in a rural area is that they grow a lot of the food they eat there. Orchards often have restaurants that serve locally grown food. The Arbor Day Lodge in Nebraska City has one. Check the phone books and look for farm-fresh eateries. Bed and breakfasts serve home-cooked meals. You can call them and see if they offer open-to-the-public lunches. Remember. You can eat a green meal wherever you travel. It just takes a little, easy research.

More on Food and Travel:
Pass Up Fast Food on Road Trips
Visit a Local Orchard with These 5 Tips in Mind
Go Apple Picking and 3 More Great Green Fall Activities

 
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