The main idea of my diagram is to show that there is a large influence from the environment on society. The people need fuel for their fires so that they can cook and survive, but meanwhile resources, like firewood, are becoming scarce since so many people need it as fuel. This leads people to gathering more firewood than is available and then leads them to looking for other resources. Through this, it can be seen how stability in an environment like this can be a hard task to achieve, but with the addition of the biogas generator, stability can be slightly easier to achieve. Through the generator, cow dung is transformed into compost and fertilizer and this both provides for the environment and also the women of the town. As it nourishes the ecosystem, it can also be sold for money, which the women can use to pay for their children’s’ education. This diagram compared to Figure 1.5 in the Marten reading, “What is Human Ecology?” has some similarities in the format and the relative prominence the environment has on society. In terms of differences, the diagram from the reading stresses more on the smaller, but yet still influential, aspects of the social system and ecosystem (i.e. trees and shrubs on hills) while mine does not. Although these diagrams are different, it is good to see the different perspectives of what makes up the complex system between the social system and the ecosystem in this village in Karnataka, India.