My core ideas behind my design are fully developed around the ecosystem and the social system within Biogas itself. My chart incorporates wood helping the kids of Biogas with the smoke and the attendance. The ecosystem is benefitted in several ways as well. The decrease in pollution and deforestation decrease will both aid in ecosystem preservation. The methane gas provides families with clean cooking gas and many health benefits through the use of better soil to strengthen the crops and in-turn resulting in healthier animals. The graph shows the stability within Biogas by eliminating the depleting resource of wood. Wood is finite but the human waste to provide the gas will not be. This process of methane creation will provide sustainability within Biogas and increase health factors within the ecosystem and the social system.

Compared to the diagram in Figure 1.5 of the Marten reading, “What is Human Ecology”, my diagram looks similar and different. The similarities include the representation of the social system and the ecosystem alike. My diagram, however, is much more linear and easy to follow than this one is. My diagram flows straight through with the exception of human waste at the end. The model in Figure 1.5 is much more complex. The relationship between the subgroups of the social system and the ecosystem are far more intricate than mine. These similarities and differences are because of the lack of information in the 5-minute video. The tress and shrubs on the hill wouldn’t have been picked up from the small amount of information. The health benefits from my graph and the irrigation would both be things that we could learn from these charts.

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