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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
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| Who knew it was so easy to change the world?
The next time you pack this all-American sandwich for lunch, you're helping the environment. You don't have to change your whole diet to change the world. Just start with lunch. | | 
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| How to Help the Environment at Lunch | |
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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 have a PB&J instead of a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you save the equivalent almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. | A PB&J will also save water.
That's about 280 gallons of water over the hamburger. To put this in perspective, three PB&Js a month instead of hamburgers will save about as much water as switching to a low-flow showerhead. | A PB&J will save land.
Have a PB&J and save 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution. | |
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"…Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Letter from the Birmingham Jail
