A PB&J will slow global warming. Next time you have one you'll reduce your carbon footprint by saving the equivalent of 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets. That's about forty percent of what you'd save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan. If you were going to have a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you save the equivalent almost three and a half pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.A PB&J also saves about 962 gallons of water over the hamburger. To put this in perspective, two PB&Js a month instead of hamburgers will save about as much water as switching to a low-flow showerhead.
Have a PB&J and save 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution.
sustainablog: PB&J: The Climate-Friendly Lunch
4 comments:
Just make sure it's not Peter Pan Peanut Butter, or get to the doc!
WHAT!
Buy natural peanut butter without corn sugars and you don't have to worry about Peter Pan!
Ma Blogger
Those water figures seem almost unbelievalbe. Do you happen to know how they got their numbers? Regardless, I will have PB&J today instead of the planned ham sandwhich for lunch. By the way our PB is always all natural, I think we started that way for health reasons, but not I actually like it a whole bunch more.
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