Save the Environment With PBJs

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Posted by Robyn Lee, October 3, 2007 at 10:45 AM

The PB&J Campaign aims to raise awareness about the positive environmental impact one could make by simply eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of a meat-based alternative. For instance, you could save 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, 280 gallons of water, and 12 to 50 square feet of land by choosing a PBJ instead of a hamburger. If you're not a fan of peanut butter and jelly, there are plenty of other tasty environmentally friendly alternatives that can help slow global warming, reduce water waste, and save land.

2 Comments | Tags: environment, PBJ

2 Comments:

Okay. For sake of argument I'll grant you that eating PB&J sandwiches could "help slow global warming, reduce water waste, and save land."

But I wonder if anybody has ever calculated how much an individual's becoming twenty pounds overweight and maintaining that condition contributes to global warming, water waste and land misuse?

srhcb at 12:36PM on 10/03/07

To tell you the truth, when I read stuff like the PB&J campaign (which isn't a bad idea, I mean, I do like the idea of a healthy earth), I think, "Well if I just killed myself then I could stop destroying the environment, yay!"

I'm a little morbid.

I would estimate that I'm about 20 pounds overweight (at least, if I could lose 20 pounds that would be swell). Former attempts to lose this weight center around eating a whole lot less and lower on the food chain, which I'm sure is better for the environment than what I'm doing now (which is eating everything), but I wasn't very happy about...life.

I guess eating PB&J sandwiches is an easy thing to change about one's lifestyle with possibly having a positive (or not so negative) effect on the environment.

roboppy at 2:49PM on 10/03/07

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