Green grass clean air. Why do you need to protect nature? Why can't you just use it? We are looking for fresh air: from the Caucasus mountains to our own home

Agree, you don't really want to walk when it's cloudy outside. Everyone knows that thanks to the sun we get vitamin D, but few people know that this happens even when the sun is not visible behind the clouds. We have collected as many as 6 benefits of outdoor walks that literally push you for a walk!

First, let's take a look at what happens when you are indoors for a long time. First, you breathe the same air in which the amount of oxygen decreases. Breathing in this stale air does not provide your body with enough oxygen. This can lead to physical and mental health problems, such as dizziness, nausea, headaches, fatigue and mental exhaustion, irritability, anxiety, depression, colds and lung disease. Not a very attractive set, right?

Fresh air is good for digestion

You have probably often heard that after eating it is good to go for an easy walk. Not only movement, but also oxygen helps the body digest food better. This fresh air benefit is really important if you are trying to lose weight or improve your digestion.

Improves blood pressure and heart rate

If you have blood pressure problems, you should avoid contaminated surroundings and try to stay in an area with clean, fresh air. A dirty environment forces the body to work harder to get the oxygen it needs, so pressure can rise. Of course, for residents of megacities it is difficult to find fresh air, but try to get out into nature at least once or twice a week.

Fresh air makes you happier

The amount of serotonin (or the hormone of joy) depends on the amount of oxygen you breathe in. Serotonin can significantly improve your mood and contribute to feelings of happiness and well-being. Fresh air helps you feel more relaxed. This is especially important for those who are used to raising their sweet mood. Next time you feel depressed, just go for a walk in the park or forest and see how it affects you.

Strengthens the immune system

This is especially important in the spring, when immunity is significantly reduced. Dirt, grayness, rain are not very attractive for a walk, so at this time of the year we go out for a walk less often. However, the white blood cells that fight bacteria and germs need enough oxygen to do their job properly. Therefore, get in the habit of going for at least a half-hour walk to help your immune system strengthen.

Cleans the lungs

When you breathe in and out through your lungs, you release toxins from your body with the air. Of course, it's important to breathe in really fresh air to avoid absorbing additional toxins. Therefore, we again advise you to go to nature as often as possible to restore lung function.

Increasing the amount of energy

Fresh air helps you think better and boosts your energy levels. The human brain needs 20% of the body's oxygen, can you imagine? More oxygen gives more clarity to the brain, improves concentration, helps to think more clearly, and has a positive effect on energy levels.

And now we give specific tips on how to absorb more fresh air, some of which can be done without leaving the city.

Try running outdoors. Find a woodland or a park with lots of trees in your city and go jogging there. The combination of cardio and oxygen has a good effect on the respiratory organs and increases the body's endurance.

Go hiking in the woods once a week or two. Aside from supplying oxygen to your body, it can also become an enjoyable pastime and even a family tradition. And it is always good to combine business with pleasure!

Keep plenty of plants in your home and workplace to improve air quality. Plants produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide (remember the school curriculum?), And some of them can even remove toxic pollutants in the air.

Exercise every day. If possible, do it outdoors. Sport helps to start blood circulation more powerfully and supply the body with oxygen.

Air out the bedroom before bed and, if possible, sleep with the window open. But this point should be fulfilled only by those who do not live in the center of the metropolis.

Ekaterina Romanova

At the end of 2017, according to EcoStandard group estimates, Zelenograd is the cleanest area in Moscow. The name "green city" is well-known, but besides greening, the presence of industrial zones, air purity and much more affects the environment. What does the ecology of Zelenograd depend on, and what problems does the city have?

Illustration: Valeria Pankova

What is ecology,and with what it is eaten

In a broad sense, ecology is the science of the interaction of living organisms with each other and with the environment. We will consider ecology as a state environment of our city, which consists of air, water, mineral, bio- and energy resources. With a superficial assessment of the ecology, they look at the area of \u200b\u200bforest parks, other green areas, the presence of highways and airfields, sources of electromagnetic fields and the noise level of the city. Also take into account the large sources of negative impacts in neighboring areas.

As we have already said, the environment is five components, the state of which determines the ecological situation. For each of them there are monitoring systems: some assess air pollution, others - soil, and so on for each component. However, these systems do not have unified approaches to assessing the state of the environment: they do not have a unified set of indicators, methods of regionalization of territories and frequency of tracking. Because of this, the obtained values \u200b\u200bare sometimes interpreted ambiguously and biased. This happens for a simple reason: ecologists interpret the results in such a way that they confirm the necessary hypotheses. This approach is clearly visible in the case of global warming: supporters argue that the level of carbon dioxide has increased by a quarter over the past hundred years, while their opponents say that it has risen by only one percent.

Some environmental violations can be seen without special means monitoring and complex instrumentation. To assess the state of the atmosphere, you can, for example, look at the color of the snow in the city. If it is white, then everything is fine, but a blue, yellow or reddish tint may indicate the presence of harmful substances in the atmosphere. The same works with rain, for example, black color indicates the presence of heavy metals in precipitation.

It used to be better?

This concludes with the theory and move on to the ecology of Zelenograd, the city of microelectronics, in which there is more than one plant. In the eighties, waste from enterprises was discharged into the Skhodnya River, which spoiled the Zelenograd reservoirs. During the years of perestroika, the factories stopped. When they were restarted, the waste was disposed of in less hazardous ways. Now garbage from the production of microelectronics is taken out to several landfills, including Volokolamsk and Solnechnogorsk.

The abnormal heat in 2010 and 2011 affected the landscaping of the city and the surrounding area - the temperature reached 36 degrees. These conditions turned out to be favorable for the reproduction of bark beetles. Due to drought and pests, about 20 percent of the city's forests had to be cut down. This was necessary so that the bark beetle did not move to neighboring healthy trees. Almost eight years later, trees are still being planted to restore the city's old landscaping.

One of the problems appeared long ago, during the laying of the water supply system in the city. Previously, most of the water came from artesian springs in Zelenograd. The water from them contains a lot of fluorine. Its excessive consumption had a detrimental effect on the condition of the teeth and kidneys of the townspeople. Especially fluorosis (dental disease caused by fluoride intoxication - author's note) affects children. Rospotrebnadzor gradually solved this problem: according to statistics for 1980-2015, the incidence of fluorosis among children decreased tenfold - from 9 to 0.89 percent. The reason for this improvement is the transition from artesian water to river water - on this moment only three percent of water from artesian springs flows in the Zelenograd water pipelines.

Currently, the main problem of the city is garbage, especially polyethylene. Its turnover is huge all over the world. And although most of the polyethylene waste is taken out of the city and delivered to disposal sites, we can still observe the littering of the forest. One of the most promising solutions to this problem is biodegradable polyethylene, bags of which can be bought in some supermarkets. However, solving the problem of littering with the help of such polyethylene, we create another: the production of biodegradable bags is even more harmful to the environment than the production of conventional bags from oil. Regular bags can be used over and over again, while biodegradable bags will have to be produced in large quantities to meet people's needs.

A radical solution to the waste problem will be an incineration plant, which will be built 40 kilometers from Zelenograd near the Solnechnogorsk landfill. Construction will begin in June 2018 and finish in October 2020. The difference is waste incineration plant in a different technical process: garbage will be burned with plasma at a temperature of 1260 degrees, this will destroy almost all harmful combustion waste. The volatile waste will then be filtered and neutralized by cementing. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals will be taken from solid residues for recycling, and the remaining waste will be sent to road construction. The heat generated by the combustion will go to the turbine generator, which will generate electricity.

Who is involved in ecology in our city? The Mosecomonitoring service is responsible for identifying and resolving environmental issuesand also informs the population. For example, it controls emissions household waste and leaves notches on trees suitable for felling. The service receives some of the data from automatic air pollution control stations. There are three of them in Zelenograd: in the 11th and 15th microdistricts and not far from Pine Alley.

MIET also does not stay away from environmental problems. The Institute for Advanced Materials and Technologies cooperates with environmental activists, supplies specialized equipment, conducts trainings, open lessons and other events. Also, MIET regularly holds organized actions to collect plastic caps and batteries. The collected waste is taken for recycling or disposal.

Despite the fact that Zelenograd is already recognized as the cleanest area of \u200b\u200bMoscow, it still takes measures to improve the state of the environment. First of all, the ecology of the city depends on ourselves. Do not be lazy and take the garbage to the nearest trash can, hand over the batteries and covers to the collection point. Together we can make Zelenograd even cleaner and more beautiful.

Alexander Lukanov

The idea of \u200b\u200bimproving the ecosystem of the planet with vertical and rooftop gardens has long been embodied in many cities around the world.

But you can add even more greenery to the streets of our cities with green roofs on public transport.

A phyto-kinetic project for bus roof landscaping was proposed by biologist Marc Grañén from Spain. This project is reported by the environmental news site urbangardensweb.com

Photo by Marc Grañén

Marc Grañén calls himself a landscape painter. His concept of clean air in cities - the open roofs of buses should be bright from flowering vegetation and saturate the air with oxygen, not just exhaust gases.

Two years ago, a similar project was proposed by Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s PhD student at New York University. But Marc Grañén is more successful in his endeavors than his predecessor.

The idea of \u200b\u200bthe Spanish biologist Marc Grañén has received the approval and support of leading scientists and engineers in the field of environmental projects.

Mark's phyto-kinetic project is more adapted to practical use, his method of installing roof gardens on buses is more perfect, although it requires the test of time.

For styling roof gardens Bus Marc Grañén uses 7 cm thick hydroponic foam, which is much lighter than soil. This significantly reduces the load on the bus roof.

Photo by Marc Grañén

The hydroponic system is supported on the roof with a stainless steel perforated grate. Waterproofing is also well thought out, it seals the roof and prevents moisture leaks.

Photo by Marc Grañén

For irrigation roof gardens condensate from the bus air conditioning systems will be used.

Condensation is usually wasted, and in the case of a green roof, water will water the plants. The hotter the weather, the more condensation there will be.

On cool days, you can drive through special car washes, where there are no top brushes and soap suds, so as not to damage the plants, or water by hand.

Green carpets on the roofs may have a unique design for different kind transport, and will also be taken into account climatic conditions regions and planted plants that grow in a given climate.

Photo by Marc Grañén

For many skeptics, Mark's project is utopian, because there are too many "buts" in the implementation of this idea. And first of all, this concerns the safety of vehicles with green roof in case of emergency and unforeseen situations.

But Mark believes that the more people support his idea, the cleaner the air in our cities will be, and green roofs will become a part of urban culture.

Rooftop gardens green roofs urban transport, vertical gardens, and as a result of common efforts - a revived green Planet... Sounds optimistic, maybe it will be, but ahead long haul the embodiment of the phyto-kinetic project in everyday life.

And we do not dream of the roar of the cosmodrome, Not this icy blue, But we dream about grass, grass near the house, Green, green grass ...

There is an accurate human observation: we notice air when it begins to be scarce, that is, we do not value it. So Vladimir Soloukhin wrote in the twentieth century. Indeed, we do not value air and do not think about it as long as we breathe normally and without hindrance.

But still, it happens that we enjoy it when it pulls from the south with warm moisture, when it is washed by the May rain, when it is ennobled by lightning discharges. There are sweetest, precious, memorable breaths of air.

The air has no one closer than grass. We are used to the world being green. We walk, mash, trample in the mud, rip off with caterpillars and wheels, cut off with shovels, scrape off bulldozer knives, slam them tightly with concrete slabs, fill them with hot asphalt, fill them with iron, cement, plastic, brick, paper, and rag rubbish. We pour gasoline, fuel oil, kerosene, acids and alkalis on the grass. We do not fall asleep a person - grass. Will grow elsewhere. This is our attitude to nature! ..

I read a touching story about a blade of grass. Prison, prisoner, solitary confinement. They brought him a stack of books, he began to read them and suddenly saw that a tiny seed had stuck to the book page. The prisoner carefully separated this seed and put it on a sheet of paper. He looked at the seed with different eyes than we did. Then suddenly a jar of earth appears in his cell. With trembling hands, the man lowered the seed into the ground of the cracked, unusable pot. Leaving some water in his mug, he waters the black earth. The seed sprouted, which made the man very happy.

This great miracle is a miracle that we are so accustomed to because it always happens around us in a million-billion-dollar repetition, it began to happen and unfold before the eyes of the shocked prisoner, as a reward for his attention and patience. The soul of the prisoner froze. The happy sower watched the development of the plant, as the slow motion camera observes, in the lens of which the leaves are clearly unfolding and the flower buds open. It was strawberries. The prisoner, in his later published memoirs, claimed that in his life, neither before prison nor after prison, there was no joy more complete and sharp than the one that the strawberries that grew in a broken bowl gave him.

A breath of air when a person suffocates. A green living blade of grass, when a person is completely cut off from nature. Actually, it's grass. Scrape it with bulldozer knives, fill it up with garbage, fill it with hot asphalt, clear it with concrete, douse it with oil, trample it, ruin it, despise it ... And meanwhile, caressing a person's eye, pouring quiet joy into his soul, softening his temper, bringing calm and rest - that's one thing from the side purposes of every plant, and especially a flower. Some oriental sage taught: if you want to be healthy, look as much as possible at the green grass, at the flowing water and at beautiful women. And then he said: "If you don't look at the green grass and flowing water, you won't want to look at women on their own."

To lie on the grass ... To fall down, to fall over on your back, to spread your arms - there is no other way to drown completely and dissolve in the blue sky than when you lie on the grass. But why exactly on the grass? Well, if you don't like it, lie down on a dusty road, on a brick, on scrap iron, on a heap of mineral fertilizer, on knotty boards. You can, of course, spread a raincoat on the ground, but better on the grass. These minutes will become, perhaps, memorable moments of your life. Try to lie in the rye: below is a green half-light, cool silence, freshness smelling of young juicy rye, and above is the blue sky and the song of a lark above you ...

A plant is a living being that is born, grows, enters the period of maturity, blooms, fertilizes, bears fruit, grows old and finally dies. In spring and summer, plants are fragrant with aromas, emitting ethers. God created the Earth and everything growing and living on it. Five hundred and thirty thousand species of plants grew on planet Earth, and each had its own purpose. But today we do not have clean water and clean air, the world ocean is deteriorating and earthly atmosphere, is the destruction and damage of the green cover of the earth. We, people living on earth, do not consider ourselves saboteurs, but imagine ourselves as friends of nature.

Grass - hay, grass - flowers, grass - ants, grass - beauty, grass - food, grass - clothing, grass - building material, tear-grass, plakun-grass, tryn-grass, grass is an integral part of nature, grass is a mystery nature, grass is life ...

Green is the color of life. If green turns into, for example, brown color, then this means that the plant has fulfilled its mission and goes into another state in the form of fertilizer for the earth, but this is not garbage, but the nutrition necessary for the soil.

My good advice to dear readers: read what is useful and necessary for your correct development, primarily spiritual. I offer books by Vladimir Soloukhin "Collected Works" (I - IV volumes), Alexander Savrasov "Knowledge of the Fountainheads" (I - V books), Vladimir Megre "Ringing Cedars of Russia" (I - X books). Shake off the age-old dust and be sure to read.

Take care of the grass, trees,

They also want to live,

There is a soul in every plant

Which came from God.

Nature cannot be caught unkempt and half-naked, it is always beautiful.

Ralph Emerson

Why do you need to protect nature? I think, probably, everyone has ever asked this question.

From the very birth, a person touches the world alive and inanimate nature... As a child, we are more attached to the wonderful world of nature: we admire the bright petals of flowers, we run with delight on the green grass. I am no exception, from early childhood I like to relax in nature: walking in the forest, swimming in the river. IN recent times river banks and forests are so polluted that it is painful to watch.

And all through the fault of us, people.

Now there is a lot of talk about the deterioration of the ecological situation. Ecological circles and detachments are organized in schools. I am not indifferent to our future, the future of our generations, so I enrolled in the ecological squad. In the classroom of the ecological circle, we are told about the situation in the world around us, about how easy it is to disturb the balance in nature and how difficult it is to restore it. Fortunately, nature is very intelligently arranged, it itself can recover, only slowly. Time is the only thing that nature lacks in case of unreasonable human behavior.

Humanity, in pursuit of new technologies, their improvement, profit, has destroyed many animals, some species of which are lost forever, or only a few remained. A predator, chasing an animal, wants one thing - to eat. He won't kill more than he needs. And there is harmony, balance in this. Man, however, destroys everything that he sees, he needs more and more. And as a result, he will destroy all living things.

We breathe like all living things, inhaling oxygen in the air and exhaling carbon dioxide. But the oxygen content in the atmosphere largely depends on the plants. It is plants in the process of photosynthesis that enrich the air with oxygen! How long has humanity not thought about this, destroying forests, plowing the steppes, draining swamps.

You cannot teach everyone to take care of nature in one day. This takes time, possibly generations. If now every person keeps clean, at least in his yard, in the forest where he walks, at the place of study or work, how much will change everything around!
I hope that the time will come when people will change their minds and move from the destruction of the earth. We must not forget that we are part of nature. And our planet is not disposable.

Why you need to protect nature.

The nature of our homeland is very beautiful. Its forests, fields, groves and meadows are beautiful. In the forests of central Russia, trees and shrubs grow, some of which are listed in the Red Book. They are very useful not only for animals, but also for humans. In the forests of the Far East, for example, sea buckthorn grows. In reference books twenty years ago, it was listed as wild. At present, it can be considered a cultivated plant, it is bred in gardens, the most useful medicinal oil is made from sea buckthorn. Sea buckthorn is bred to strengthen the soil in vegetable gardens, and for decorative purposes - the golden-yellow "ears" of its ripe fruits are very beautiful. Scientists know that this berry is rich in active substances: oil, carotene, vitamins. Is it one sea buckthorn! Nature gave us many useful plants.

Not all people treat nature with care: they make fires in the forests, cut down Christmas trees for the New Year, throw garbage into rivers and lakes, waste from factories and plants often ends up in water bodies. And because of this, many fish die, sometimes very valuable species.

If people do not understand that nature needs to be protected, then not only fish will die, but also animals and birds. Plants will not be healthy. As a result, cows, sheep, goats will have nothing to eat.

There will be no dairy and meat products in stores. People will have nothing to breathe, as the ecology will be spoiled. Therefore, it is very important to preserve nature, to properly organize the work of factories and plants.

Protect the environment!

Why you need to protect nature.

Man needs nature in order for him to live. If we do not protect nature, people will begin to die from various diseases and even environmental disasters.

During their life, people heavily pollute forests, seas, rivers, lakes. Some people think that nothing bad will happen from their garbage bag thrown into a pond. What if a hundred people think so? And it turns out that at the bottom of the rivers you can find fragments of broken bottles, scraps of torn bags and other garbage unnecessary to nature. People breathe ecologically dirty air of factories and plants, drink polluted water. Do we really want to live like this?

On the contrary. We want to come for mushrooms and berries in a clean forest. Listen to birds singing. Birds are part of our nature. They add charm to forests, gardens and groves, and are the best decoration for city parks. Birds transform the landscape and make it joyful and pleasant with their singing. However, people should remember that birds, fish and animals cannot live in a dirty environment. Therefore, the Red Book was created, which protects the flora and fauna of our Motherland from destruction.

It cannot be said that humanity does nothing at all to preserve the ecology of the planet. People are building treatment facilities, creating nature reserves, planting trees. It is simply necessary that there are more such people, so that each of us, according to his capabilities, makes at least a small contribution to the protection of nature. Nature is the most important wealth given to humanity.

Let's take care of it!

An ultra-modern city in an ultra-modern country was home to ultra-modern people. They lived in multifunctional ultramodern houses, where the lights were turned on with a click, and the equipment was turned on one word at a time.

Robots walked and rode along the city streets next to people. The same ultra-modern and sophisticated, like everything around. All plants in this city were artificial, created according to the most complicated schemes. Animals were the result of the work of designers.

But there was one nuisance that the scientists of the ultra-modern city could not solve in any way. Life in a biological human body did not last very long. Ultra-modern drugs did not help. It was not possible to invent a universal fuel for the human body. People could not be “refueled”. Moreover, they had to buy oxygen and water, which affected the budget of the ultra-modern state.

For some reason strives for such a fictional life modern man... He forgot that HE is a biological being, a living being, a part of NATURE. And only a living environment can provide him with a long painless life. NATURE.

Man is often called the creator, the crown of nature. But what kind of creator is he ?! He can create only thanks to nature. From what nature gives him. What kind of crown is he ?! Weak, small, sick ... He is not able to protect himself from the elements of nature or fatal disease... He knows the history of the emergence of states and countries, the appearance of terrible infections; knows why it is necessary to study viruses, how to preserve external youth. He knows a lot ... But he doesn't start living longer.

Why should nature be protected?

Air

Clean, fresh. For a person, it is better than an expensive perfumery scent. Every cell of the human body needs oxygen. Without a breath of air, a person dies.

People living in huge industrial centers are more likely to face fatal diseases, age faster, and more often give birth to genetic freaks. After all, they breathe smog, smoke from factory pipes, exhaust gases of millions of cars.

Green forests are needed for clean air. And a person forgets about it, thoughtlessly harvesting wood for his needs.

Fresh air must be kept away from factories and plants. And the entrepreneur does not want to spend money on expensive cleaning equipment.

The air cannot stay clean when there is a lot of exhaust gas. And car enthusiasts buy low-quality cheap fuel and save money on repairing their cars. Moreover, there are no restrictions on the quantity of equipment, or requirements for its quality.

Water

Man needs clean water as well as clean air. Where can I get it?

If enterprises dump their waste into natural water bodies.

If a person drains swamps and lakes for his own purposes.

If, due to human activity, the ozone holes are so large that the climate has changed. Springs, streams, rivers dry up on their own.

If thoughtless spending groundwater leads to the disappearance of these sources of drinking fluid.

Food

Healthy food is already very expensive. But consumer use natural resources, the soil will soon make natural food unavailable.

We will eat GMOs and synthetic products. Health from them will not increase.

We are like those fools on a ship on the high seas who themselves poisoned all the food, threw all the water overboard, and then made a gap in the hold of their ship.

Thinking about tomorrow

Why should nature be protected? Stories are known for mass extinctions, global warming, and ice ages, and volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. But all this was subject to natural processes. Therefore, the Earth survived and survived.

A person, however, spends the benefits given to him unwisely, thoughtlessly. One gets the impression that he has completely forgotten about tomorrow. After the evil brought by a human being, nature cannot recover on its own.

Yes, the wind carries the seeds of plants, birds help it. And soon a forest will grow in a new place. But it takes time. And Nature does not have this time. Man too quickly cuts down forests and cultivates soil, uprooting "extra" trees. Therefore, growing a new forest is already his task, the Human.

Keep the air clean.

Since a person drives cars and builds factories and plants.

And after all, much is not required from a Human. You don't even need to give up the benefits of civilization. You just need to THINK about the future.