Benefits of Trees

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Top 10 Reasons a Small Town Life is Better than a City

10. Lesser noise & pollution level, hence good health:

Compared to the life in cities, there’s less hue & cry in small places. Life’s more complacent than complicated. You can breathe fresh air or enjoy being in spacious fields. Although not necessarily, but often you’ll find that people residing in low-profile areas are less provoked with health issues. Mainly it is because the atmosphere’s healthy and hygienic and that’s reflected in peoples’ lives.

9. Even your kid can read morning newspaper:

You don’t have to panic that your kids get a look of the morning newspaper. In metros, the excess of delinquent news abstains you from letting your kids read daily newspapers. It majorly upsets you that they’ll affect their young mind. In small places, you no longer have to distract your kids’ attention from the newspapers as they’re comparatively free of those ills.

8. A sense of belongingness:

It’s my place, there’s a sense of attachment and warmth. Every neighborhood shop, your school building, your friends place or the nearby market leaves a memorable mark in your mind and stays with you forever. You belong to that place.

7. Minimal cost of living:

There is less expenditure on groceries, food items or transportation, so it all contributes to a great cut on your monthly budget. You have good savings to surpass those rainy days. The sound financial back-up strengthens your future endeavors.

6. Security:

There’s a prevailing social security in small towns. Though you have to be watchful of any wrong activities still you never have to panic all the time, worrying about any unlawful happenings, which may occur any time.

5. Leisure:

In small towns, people relish their dishes, read their favorite books, play interesting games, chatter or simply relax in their free time. In cities mostly people are shopaholics or movie-goers while in small towns, people pursue their hobbies, more inclined towards reading or writing, playing or any creative things.

4. You’re popular:

From your neighborhood, grocer, shopkeeper to your banker, everyone knows you. Being absent-minded once I collected my dresses from the boutique without paying the bill, he called back me the next day and reminded me. The other time I forgot my wallet at a grocery shop, much to my surprise; it was intact, when I received it. It can only happen in small places. You build more contacts; have true friends from the same soil who lasts forever.

3. Values:

Generally people hailing from small-towns, are less-complicated, simple-hearted and effortlessly lead their lives. There is warmth in their approach; they welcome their guests whole-heartedly. You feel like being part of one big family. Sometimes they are being mocked at, get weird treatment by urban fellows, stamped with “small-town-mentality,” though this is all vague as once they’re inculcated with the values and it remains with them for life. They simply don’t compromise on them.

2. You can be yourself:

You’re entirely at ease. There’s no need to pretend what you are not, while in cities, people generally put a mask on their personality and it reflects in their attitude too. They make people believe that they are socially awkward fellows, whereas in reality they may be not. Since they are secretly not inclined towards socializing, they have to act as if they keep it to themselves.

1. No rush hour:

There’s no hurried Henry, no need to rush. Unlike urbanites, small-town people are not addicted to those bee-line queues. Here, people simply don’t juggle with their daily life. One can be at his/her ease, own pace. The feeling is really wonderful. Life moves on itself, you don’t have to wear those running shoes. We can end this conversation, adding a proverb, small is beautiful.

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How To Reduce Soil Pollution

Factors Causing Soil Pollution

 

Excessive Use Of Fertilizers

Plants need nutrients for growth and for nutrients other than carbon, hydrogen and oxygen that they get from the atmosphere farmers have to rely on chemical fertilizers. Soil deficiencies are corrected by farmers through artificial means like the chemical fertilizers, not knowing the harmful effects of these fertilizers on soil. The trouble starts when mixed fertilizers are used in the soil and the non-degradable metals that accompany the essential nutrients slowly begin to get amassed in the soil above preferred toxic levels. Like the damage phosphate fertilizers are notorious for doing.

 

Use Of Pesticides, Insecticides, Weedicides

These might kill the weeds or insects that can hinder the proper growth of the plant, but these harsh chemicals are also are also often responsible for depleting the fertility of the soil. The chemicals that are not easily broken get accumulated in the soil that can be a threat not only to the plants but also to the animals consuming it.

 

Solid Waste

Waste in the form of garbage, plastic, non-biodegradable things not only pollutes fertile land but also alters the chemical and biological properties of soil. Even factory waste in the form of harmful chemicals, oils, or things that cannot be recycled can prove harmful to the soil.

 

Deforestation And Soil Erosion

Deforestation and soil erosion are very much interlinked. Many a factor can lead to soil erosion ranging from human activities to acid rain to floods. And most of these can be well attributed to deforestation. In the rage of building more of concrete jungles humans selectively forget about the harm it is doing to the environment.

 

Reducing Soil Pollution

 

Organic Fertilizers

There are other ways to add necessary nutrients to the soil other than chemical fertilizers. ‘Organic’ is the word of the day and what else will save the day other than organic fertilizers. Not only are they harmless to nature but they also nourish the soil unlike chemical fertilizers. The latest to be added to the list is bio-fertilization. In this form of fertilization, certain microorganisms are used to increase the soil fertility along with nurturing it.

 

Organic Pesticides

Try to avoid pesticides as much as possible. Instead, try organic pesticides which help control pests without damaging the environment.

Recycling

Recycling is the best option for clearing away unwanted things like paper, plastic and other things that can reduce piling up, but be used as landfill. This is a serious matter of concern in urban areas where there is no proper place for waste disposal.

Planting Trees

For every tree that you cut another should be planted. Re-forestation is one way you can get rid of soil erosion and by which the lost fertility of the land can be regained to a certain limit.

 

Eliminating Weeds

Weeds absorb the necessary minerals out of the soil. Reducing weed growth can decrease soil pollution to a great extent.

 

Compost Pits

Making compost pits can help reduce waste getting accumulated in places. Treating them chemically and biologically into less hazardous and less toxic materials can prove really beneficial for clearing away a lot of solid waste.

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