How to Improve Ocean Health

At their last check-up, the world's oceans weren't quite fit as a fiddle. The prescription for better health: Help from each one of us.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Only purchase sustainable varieties of seafood (find a link below) that will preserve the oceans' delicate eco-systems.

2. Continue doing whatever you can to stem climate change. It's been shown that global warming has already begun to affect oceans.

3. Use as little plastic as possible. A massive island of discarded plastic now exists in the Pacific.

4. Buy food products that are produced without the use of fertilizers, which find their way to the ocean, creating huge "dead zones."

5. Strive to use alternative and locally-produced fuels. Off-shore oil drilling and oil spills from huge tankers have devastated the seas on several occasions.

Resources

• Sustainable Seafood Guide

[Blackbear]

on 2/4/2008 Good article Eric!