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 at the PB&J Campaign are starting PB&J clubs. Email them at pbj@pbjcampaign.org if you want to start one of your own in your workplace or school.

Buck and I like our peanut butter extra crunchy and our bread whole-grain. Like Elvis, we enjoy a PB & Banana, but hold the mayo and don’t fry it.