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Cooking for conversational English
A new online tool for the circular economy
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SEPTEMBER 2025 / ISSUE 196 / GRIDPHILLY.COM
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IN THE CITY In the pond’s still water, Penn’s campus disappears.
Claire Thurston-Emmert (left) and Kathryn Butler at James G. Kaskey Memorial Park