Of our readings today, the paper on Industrial Symbiosis in practice stood out to me as the most interesting. When imagining industrial symbiosis I think of perfectly in-tune factories, each creating exactly what the others need to function. Obviously, the reality presented in this article is much more nuanced. We often think of minimizing the waste we create, instead this article made me consider how we might maximize certain kinds of waste to limit resource extraction from the natural environment. The largest issue I see with industrial symbiosis is the need for central planning and/or agreements between corporations spanning different industries. There could be inefficiencies that develop because one market behaves differently from another and the symbiotic relationship may break down. These pitfalls were more specifically analyzed in the paper focusing on industrial symbiosis in Greece.

Today we toured the south of the peninsula of Attica. We spent most of our time at the ruins of the temple of Poseidon and the surrounding landscape. I appreciated that it was less crowded and we had more time to ourselves compared to the tour of the Acropolis. Overall, it was relaxing and beautiful.