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Our blog is about the ecology of the earth, through this blog we want to
show people the consequences can have s not care for the environment,
but also want to show them the benefits they can get care if you like: if
you care These trees will continue to produce food, save water if it never
will be required.

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ecology in the bicentenary

There has been a lot of fanfare about Colombia turning 200 next year. No doubt, that is a big number, and the country has not been lacking in demonstrations of national pride. There have been concerts and parades, the Bogota mayoralty sent about 40 hot air balloons flying over the city, and a group of policemen and soldiers were to travel, on horseback, along the same path followed by Simon Bolivar’s men during the independence war. Between now and July 20, 2010, and especially next Friday on the 190th anniversary of the Battle of Boyacá, Colombia will not tire of reminding itself that she is an old lady.

But to me, Colombia’s 200th birthday reminds me of some other things, too. With a country so chronically torn apart by violence, a nation that has seen so many dark hours of uncertainty and death, we Colombians should be proud that our motherland has weathered these storms and lived to tell the tale. This is not an entirely happy birthday, however. The fact that the memorial march that followed Bolivar’s voyages was attacked by the ELN, was a reminder that Colombia can still not celebrate its existence in perfect peace. Although I try to avoid clichés, it is hard not to think that 199 years ago our forefathers started a war for the nation’s independence, and yet, the country keeps on bleeding itself out –albeit at a lesser rate than in the past.

Another reason not to be so cheerful during this anniversary, or perhaps a bit pensive, is Colombia’s mediocre economic performance. Our soon-to-be-centuries-old nation is still struggling to create a functioning economy that can provide all its members with a way to make a decent living. Although Colombia’s economic history has been one of slow, but sustained economic growth, with few interruptions, our country’s ability to produce wealth leaves much to be desired. In real terms, Colombia’s income per person today is about eleven times bigger than that of the early 1900s. (back in 1905, the average Colombian earned US$648 a year; in 2007 she made about US$7007, using constant dollars). Compare that to South Korea, for instance, which has been able to multiply the average income of its inhabitants by a factor of 23 (up to US$24,000) during that same time span. Hong Kong, with no other significant natural resource besides a harbor, has done it by a factor of 28 (reaching about US$40,000). Although these cross-country comparisons are not always accurate or desirable, they make you think, no doubt. At 199, Colombia still is a lower-middle class woman.


What a contrast there is between this 200th birthday party and that of the United States in 1976. Those thirteen colonies that declared independence in 1776 and proclaimed a constitution twelve years later spent the next twenty decades building up the wealthiest, most powerful nation in history. By 1976, with the Watergate scandal and the War in Vietnam behind it, the United States could proudly say that it had tripled the size of its territory (at the expense of many others, we should add), and created a large, prosperous society where the rule of law prevailed. It is striking that by that date, the US had not seen an act of war on its territory since Pearl Harbor, and before that, since the end of the Civil War in 1865. What a contrast, indeed.


Of course, comparing oneself to those who have done it better than anyone else can never be fulfilling. Perhaps, besides making you sigh, it is totally pointless. But in any case, Colombia’s 200th birthday should be an opportunity for all of us to think where our country is going, and where it should be. Being incredibly optimistic, if everything goes right, if a “Colombian miracle” is to happen, we would reach South Korea’s present living standards by 2035 (twenty five years, that is the time it took the Koreans to get from where we are now to where they are today). That is unlikely to occur. The Colombian economy is overregulated and begging for tax relief. Our government keeps taking too much money from ordinary citizens and spending even more of it, harming everybody in the long run.

The World Bank believes that it is easier to do business in other 52 countries than it is in Colombia.No “confianza inversionista” (investors’ confidence), to use President Uribe’s language, can beat that statistic. Moreover, Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index gives Colombia 3.8 points on a scale from zero to ten, with zero meaning most corrupt. And although there has been great success in recent years, Colombia is still the world’s largest cocaine factory, and its humanitarian tragedy remains the worst in the Western Hemisphere.

But we cannot give up. Truth be told, Colombia today is more livable than it has been in the past twenty years, so there has been considerable progress. And although Colombians should celebrate and rejoice about this once-in-a-lifetime celebration, no party should distract us from the huge amount of work there is left to do. There is no doubt in my mind that Colombia can be fixed. I simply hope it does not take another 200 years.

taken from: http://colombiareports.com/opinion/gustavo-silva-cano/5261-colombias-bicentenary-a-birthday-for-thought.html

Caribbean Colombia Ecology (Colombia Caribe y su Ecologia)

What is ecology about, anyway?

Ecology is the relationship of living things to each other and to what’s around them. So, if you are learning about what kinds of relationships fish have with other animals (including us!) and plants in their neighborhood, then you are learning about ecology.

The word ECOLOGY comes from Greek words meaning “study of the household.” So, ecology is the study of the “household” of living things: their neighbors and neighborhood.

Ecology includes not only how living things interact with each other, but how they interact with their physical environment: things such as climate and soil. Learn more about these interactions in the Biomes section.

Ecologists are the scientists who study ecology. They are curious and like to learn about living things by observing them, seeing what happens, and recording what they find. This is all part of the scientific method.

The Learn About Ecology section of this website introduces the study of ecology, describes careers in ecology, provides interviews with ecologists and gives an overview of the Kids do Ecology Program and website. It includes a discussion of endangered species, provides links to additional resources, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Some ecologists study a specific species or habitat. They might study the behavior of a single species to see how it interacts with other organisms and the environment. Or, an ecologist might study many different species that either depend on each other (a food web, for example), or compete with each other for food and space. There are many fields of ecology with lots of things still to be discovered.
Taken from: http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecology/ecoindex.html

What's ecology?

Ecology

1873, coined by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) as Okologie, from Greek oikos "house, dwelling place, habitation" + -logia "study of." Ecosystem is from 1935. Ecosphere (1953) is the region around a star where conditions allow life-bearing planets to exist.

Environment

1603, "state of being environed"; sense of "nature, conditions in which a person or thing lives" first recorded 1827 (used by Carlyle to render German Umgebung); specialized ecology sense first recorded 1956. Environmentalism was coined 1923 as a psychological term (in the nature vs. nurture debate); the ecological sense is 1972 (environmentalist in this sense is attested from 1970).

(Source: Online Etymology Dictionary)

Eco -- it certainly isn't a new word. In Greek ("oikos"), it means the home, the place where we live. And ecology means the science of how all living creatures interact within our home - our environment on this fascinating, complex Spaceship Earth.

Yet, "environment" and "ecology" are extended to encompass the inseparable universe. Mankind was not the first organism to leave the Earth's atmosphere. Mankind, plants and animals are now living in space for extended periods. The Earth, and survival of all species, is reliant upon the harmony of its existence among billions of other planets and space objects. With mankind's entry and enterprises in space since the early 1960s, there is valid and increasing reason to extend environmental and ecological concerns to the farthest regions of our home in space.

Environmental unity exists everywhere, and the survival of all species on Earth depends on its continuance. One of our objectives is to connect space science, exploration and its discoveries with Earth, its immediate environment and ecology, by using the media to connect people.

It isn't surprising that while the interest of our world on many other issues tends to fluctuate, public interest in our environment remains constantly high. It is ever more apparent today when people consider the increasing energy demands coupled with rising gasoline process, the loss of habitat coupled with a rapidly increasing human population, the struggles to produce enough food to feed the masses, and many, many other facts of daily life.

Taken from: http://www.ecology.com

the ecology

It is the science that studies living beings, their environment, the distribution and abundance, how these properties are affected by the interaction between organisms and their environment. The environment includes the physical properties that can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like climate and geology, and other agencies that share that habitat (biotic factors). The integrated vision of ecology suggests that it is the scientific study processes influencing the distribution and abundance of organisms and the interactions between organisms and the transformation of energy and material flows.

History

Ökologie The term was introduced in 1869 by Prussian German Ernst Haeckel in their work General Morphology of the Agency; is composed of the Greek words oikos (house, apartment, home) and logos (study or treaty), Ecology therefore means "the study household "and how best to manage those. At first, Haeckel meant by ecology science that studies the relationships of living beings with their environment, but later extended this definition to study the characteristics of the medium, which also includes the transport of matter and energy and its transformation by biological communities.

Ecology is the branch of biology that studies the interactions of living organisms with their environment. These include abiotic factors, environmental conditions such as weather, soil, etc., but also includes biological factors, conditions resulting from the relationships established with other living beings. While other branches dealing with lower organizational levels (from biochemistry and molecular biology through cell biology, histology and physiology, systematic), ecology deals with the uppermost level, dealing with population’s communities, ecosystems and the biosphere. For this reason, and address the interactions between individuals and their environment, ecology is a multidisciplinary science that uses tools from other branches of science, especially geology, Meteorology, Geography, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The research in this discipline differs with respect to most of the work in the other branches of biology because of their greater use of mathematical tools such as statistical and mathematical models. In addition, understanding of ecological processes relies heavily on evolutionary assumptions (Dobzhansky, 1973).


Extrated from: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecolog%C3%ADa