The Peanut Butter Plan to Save the World

If you’re like me, you’re tired of looking for ways to help global warming and only finding instructions to use compact florescent light bulbs. Like I haven’t been doing that for 10 years? But here’s a new one that I can totally get behind: eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches . Besides the obvious reasons (they’re so gooood), you can help the planet. Look what you save when you choose a PB&J: 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets Almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas compared to a ham sandwich or a hamburger 280 gallons of water over the hamburger 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution A whole bunch of fuel compared to wild-caught seafood A whole bunch of fuel, pollution, antibiotics, hormones, and other really bad stuff over factory-farmed fish The people...