Friday, April 13, 2012

Try a PB&J

Easy on the earth and your budget.
 
Have you seen the PB&J Campaign? This is a fun and easy idea to make a small dent in a large problem.  Simply replace a meal with PB&J or any other plant based meal (no meat or fish!) to reduce your carbon footprint. 

The PB&J Campaign's Mission is "to combat environmental destruction by reducing the amount of animal products people eat. The PB&J Campaign approaches positive change one meal at a time by illuminating the differences one single dining decision can make."

"Each time you have a plant-based lunch like a PB&J you'll reduce your carbon footprint by 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. For dinner you save 2.8 pounds and for breakfast 2.0 pounds of emissions.

Those 2.5 pounds of emissions at lunch are about forty percent of the greenhouse gas emissions you'd save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.

If you have a PB&J instead of a red-meat lunch like a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you shrink your carbon footprint by almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions."

TAKE THE PB&J PLEDGE   http://www.pbjcampaign.org/pledge/

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