Abstract

In this essay I meet an elderly grocer and a caged dog, and visit a solar park. In telling the story of these particular encounters I hope to use the genre of creative non-fiction to offer the reader some glimpse of the complex eco-social web on the Aegean islands of Halki and Symi, where the memory of the sponge industry is a powerful image of wealth and devastation, where the island ecosystems are catastrophically depleted and their non-human beings abused, and where for all this there is yet some hope of renewal.

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