{"id":1350,"date":"2008-07-22T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2008-07-22T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:41:09","slug":"eat-pbjs-and-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Eat PB&#038;J&#8217;s and Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For well over a year until about six months ago I was helping save the world and didn&#8217;t even know it. I was simply trying to limit my calories by eating Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches for most weekday lunches. There is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbjcampaign.org\/numbers\">a campaign <\/a>to encourage everybody to eat PBJ&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The payoff?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Each time you have a plant-based lunch like a PB&#038;J you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Those 2.5 pounds of emissions at lunch are about forty percent of the greenhouse gas emissions you&#8217;d save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For well over a year until about six months ago I was helping save the world and didn&#8217;t even know it. I was simply&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}