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Prashanta Khanal

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/06/2025
Israel carried out a “major strike” on Iran early Friday morning, hitting a range of targets in the capital, Tehran.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"To the Western world, Bhutan is a mythical kingdom with a Dragon King & a deep connection to nature & sustainability...measures its Gross National Happiness. But it is easy to claim your citizens are happy when you kick out all the unhappy ones"-Pranaya Rana kalamweekly.substack.com/p/how-did-10...
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How did 100,000 Bhutanese become refugees?
On the expulsion of ethnic Nepali Lhotsampas from Bhutan in the 90s
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23/04/2025
World leaders from China to EU joined a private video call organized by the United Nations to discuss climate action without the US
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World Leaders From China to EU Hold Climate Meeting Without US
China’s Xi Jinping and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen were among the leaders on a private video call organized by the United Nations.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Travel Advisories for global citizens to the USA: High risk of harassment, arrest, and detention. Travel at your own risk. Travel advisory Level: 3 - Reconsider travel #USA #travel #advisories #Trumpism
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Himal Khabar @himalkhabar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
नेपालमा वायु प्रदूषण नयाँ विषय होइन। तर नियन्त्रणमा सरकारको निष्क्रियता रहँदा पछिल्लो अढाई दशकमा श्वास फेर्ने हावामा प्रदूषणको स्तर ६३ प्रतिशतले वृद्धि भएको छ। ✍️ रमेश कुमारको रिपोर्ट www.himalkhabar.com/news/144301
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देशमा २५ वर्षमा वायु प्रदूषण दुईतिहाइले बढ्यो, काठमाडौंमा ७५ प्रतिशतको वृद्धि
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Himal Khabar @himalkhabar.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
नेपाल नागरिक उड्डयन प्राधिकरण र चिनियाँ निर्माण कम्पनी चाइना सीएएमसी कन्स्ट्रक्शनको मिलेमतोमा पोखरा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थल निर्माणको ठेक्का प्रक्रियादेखि निर्माणसम्म अर्बौं रुपैयाँ भ्रष्टाचार भएको संसदीय समितिको छानबिनमा देखिएको छ। www.himalkhabar.com/news/144269
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पोखरा विमानस्थल निर्माणमा अर्बौं भ्रष्टाचार भएको संसदीय छानबिनको ठहर
नेपाल नागरिक उड्डयन प्राधिकरण र चिनियाँ निर्माण कम्पनी चाइना सीएएमसी कन्स्ट्रक्शनको मिलेमतोमा पोखरा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थल निर्माणको ठेक्का प्रक्रियादेखि निर्माणसम्म अर्बौं रुपैयाँ भ्रष्टाचार भएको ...
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blomers.bsky.social @blomers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Himalayan Bulbul lives in a variety of habitats along the Himalayas from northern Afghanistan to northeast India. #nepal #nature #birding #bird #birds #bulbul #himalayanbulbul
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ICIMOD @icimod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Read the full article at The Himalayan Times: thehimalayantimes.com/opinion/the-...
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The untapped potential of the yak economy
At a remote location in Dolpa District, north-western Nepal, yak herders churn butter from fresh milk by hand, using age-old techniques passed down through generations.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As Nepal is preparing new climate targets, here is our policy brief to inform ambitious transport decarbonization targets for NDC3.0, from phasing out new ICE vehicle sales to prioritising holistic approach to transport planning #transport #decarbonization #Nepal #NDC3.0 prc.org.np/wp-content/u...
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
'Kathmandu: A Reader' presents a collection of essays/articles on changing urban landscapes, politics, culture and identity of the capital. Our article on Kathmandu's road expansion and its consequences is re-published in the book. To get your copy: martinchautari.org.np/mc-publicati...
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Kathmandu: A Reader
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
On why Nepal needs ambitious transport decarbonization targets and how to transform our transport system... nepalitimes.com/opinion/tran...
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Transforming transport in Nepal
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"कुरा स्पष्ट छ — संवैधानिक राजतन्त्रको खोलभित्रबाट फुत्त सक्रिय राजतन्त्र निकाल्ने दुष्प्रयत्नमा छन् राजावादीहरू।... राप्रपा र राजावादीहरूको यो दुष्प्रयत्न मूलतः एउटा बाक्लो निराशा र जनताप्रतिको गहिरो द्वेषको जगमा उभिएको छ।" www.setopati.com/opinion/354549
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राजा आउँछन्, देश बचाउँछन्?
अब नेपाल र नेपालीको भाग्य 'ठूलो' टाउको भएको कुनै एउटा व्यक्ति, नेता वा संस्थाले डोहोर्‍याउन वा निर्धारण गर्न सक्दैन। विगतमा रमाउने र विगतको चेत भएको र आसेपासेले घेरिएको राजसंस्थाले त झनै सक्दैन।
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/03/2025
The number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, has crossed 50,000 as Israel intensifies attacks inside the besieged enclave aje.io/35kgqd
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” Not that many years ago, Paris was choking in car traffic. And it wasn’t a safe place to ride a bike for transportation, so not many people tried. This is new. This is a result of deliberate vision, and bold leadership. Cities are a result of choices.
Many people riding in a Paris separated bike lane.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Basically making excuses is why our country isn't building things like this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCed...
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How is a Bike Tunnel this Freak'n Great!?
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Guess who Grok says the biggest disinformation spreader on Twitter: their owner.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere. It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
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The Bill Gates Era of Climate Giving Has Ended
Breakthrough Energy is winding down its policy and advocacy office, depriving the Inflation Reduction Act of a powerful defender.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's amazing to see how Paris–not really known for cycling a few years back–has now become a cycling city. The key reason of this boils down to infrastructure–design has ability to change human behaviour & culture. And building such a vision requires political leadership. #Paris #cycling #culture
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 10/03/2025
Not only are Dutch streets more aesthetically pleasing than typical American ones, the modern klinkers (bricks) that make up most Dutch streets are just more practical. Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes dives into how in his latest video. Sunday Video: www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/09/s...
Person installing bricks by hand
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 10/03/2025
Every few years, we sign up for yet another platform just to keep in touch with our friends. Private platforms have locked users in for too long, causing a lack of innovation & competition in social media. Bluesky aims to fundamentally change this. Live in 20 min with @jay.bsky.team:
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Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/03/2025
In 2007, the Danish town of Sonderborg set itself one of the world's tightest, most ambitious deadlines: carbon-neutral by 2029. Unlike many towns with such goals, Sonderborg is on track! (Secret weapon: district heating using waste heat from data centers, sewage treatment plants, etc.)
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Carbon neutral by 2029? It’s not a pipe dream for this Danish town
Sonderborg started its move to alternative energy in response to the Opec crisis in 1973 — and began ‘Project Zero’ in 2007. It has already cut emissions by 66%
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Clearly maintaining the White House dress code is very important
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Utrecht NL is about to build the largest Dutch car-free neighbourhood. 12K people. 6K homes. 1.8K social rental homes. 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes. 21.5K bike parking spaces. 250 shared cars. 2 parcel hubs. Parking structures on district edge. High quality public transit.
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Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week
Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com · 26/02/2025
I say we ignore this mysterious disease until it gets bigger, then close our borders to a few arbitrary nationalities, shut down & reopen random businesses & finally argue about the tyranny of masks as we die from vomiting blood www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...
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Unknown Deadly Illness Strikes Western Congo
The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and Marburg have been ruled out.
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NYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A statement from a spokesperson for The New York Times on White House press coverage:
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
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Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/02/2025
Hamas has paused ceasefire talks until Israel releases 620 Palestinian prisoners, initially scheduled for release on Saturday. This comes as Israeli tanks enter the occupied West Bank for the first time in over 20 years. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/hi4ilp
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Tatiret @tatiret.eurosky.social · 23/02/2025
Melon Husk cares about himself, and surrounds himself with people that care about that same thing. Individual cars, electric or not, are not the solution to sustainable mobility. Electric cars occupy and privatize the same space as fossil fueled ones.
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Janette Sadik-Khan @jskstreet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
For some in positions of power, the greatest fear isn't that a major policy might fail, but that it might prove wildly successful. Today's move to halt congestion pricing says nothing about transportation or economics—but everything about the people who oversee them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...
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Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls
President Trump had raised concerns that the new tolling program, the first of its kind in America, was drawing visitors and businesses away from Manhattan.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The US Department of Defense states that climate change is "woke". Be on the lookout for future releases branding gravity as "communist".
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
For clarity: With the electric car company, Musk never intended to save the climate. He believed that one day fossil fuel will run out and he will cash out big with electric car. He doesn't really care about the climate, and used climate movement as an opportunity to sell his cars.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“I spent hours with him and walked with him thru Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, & shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it’s worse—he doesn’t care whatsoever…He was unmoved by the experience.”
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Elon Musk’s Biographer Calls Him a ‘Sociopath’ After Auschwitz Photo-Op
Seth Abramson’s comment came after the wife of a Holocaust survivor criticized Musk’s visit to the death camp, saying “he was unmoved by the experience.”
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My guess: Musk wanted the email to say that, someone convinced him otherwise, and then he was like fuck it I’ll tweet it anyway. (This is a very Trumpian sequence.)
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
According to Musk and most of tech: No conflict, no interest
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Jewish Man Allegedly Shot Two Israelis He Thought Were Palestinian in Confused Hate Crime Where Both Victim and Culprit Blamed Arabs" @premthakker.bsky.social on how the bizarre Miami shooting underscores the way in which Palestinians are dehumanized & violently attacked here in the US:
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Jewish Man Allegedly Shot Two Israelis He Thought Were Palestinian in Confused Hate Crime Where Both Victim and Culprit Blamed Arabs
The shooting only underscores the vastly different ways US institutions have responded to reports of antisemitism versus anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab hate.
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president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
right wingers in 2020: remote learning is a joke, reopen the schools right wingers in 2025: just ChatGPT it bro
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Housing minimums not parking minimums. We 100% know how to do this. It just takes will and leadership. Via @tomflood.bsky.social
Graphic stating “if only we provided as much housing for humans as we do for cars. Housing minimum is not parking minimums.”
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/02/2025
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What's a 'Freedom of Speech' again???
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This seems interesting but this is futile, distracting and misdirected -- while global emissions continue to rise. Put all the effort on rapid emission cut and full energy transition. CCS from the air and water is no more than a scam.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"The Israelis shot and killed an innocent young woman and then caused the death of her unborn baby, too. Shocking, right? Depraved? Murderous? And yet, as of Monday morning, there was no mention of Sundus Shalabi on...the New York Times or the BBC" - me, for Zeteo:
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Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care
How many Palestinian women and children have to be killed in the occupied West Bank before anyone in the US or UK gives a damn?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Sharing this brilliant youtube channel on city and transport planning, street design... This one is about how streets/sidewalks can be paved better and designed better... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1k...
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Natural Handcrafted Artisanal ... Streets?!
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXL...
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Kara Swisher on the Radicalization of Elon Musk | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A million cars have disappeared! “Congestion pricing [in New York City] began on January 5. One month in, traffic is down, public buses are faster, and transit ridership is up.” Via @fastcompany No surprise for those of us championing decongestion pricing for a long time. We know it works.
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A million cars have disappeared: What NYC is like after one month of congestion pricing
Congestion pricing began on January 5. One month in, traffic is down, public buses are faster, and transit ridership is up.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
BREAKING: I’m hearing the great Donald Shoup has passed away. Few urbanists can really be called game-changers, but Shoup powerfully changed how we see parking rules and their huge affect on cities. The recent revolution in parking standards was inspired by his unique work. Thank you Donald. #RIP
Post where I asked “what’s the biggest problem our cities are facing in just one word,” and Donald Shoup responding “parking.”
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?
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Prashanta Khanal @pkhanal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I share about my food writing and the books I have read recently. Seems like my world revolves around food and environment 😉 kathmandupost.com/books/2025/0...
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Archiving culinary traditions
Prashanta Khanal, the founder of the food blog ‘Gundruk’, discusses his travels throughout the country while documenting Nepali food culture.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/02/2025
A class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS are now banned from apparel for sale in California and New York. This might seem like a good time to ditch your old rain jacket. But not so fast.
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PFAS Bans Are Coming for Clothing. Here’s What You Need to Know.
New York and California have officially banned PFAS from clothing items. We explore what that really means, and what you should do with your Gore-Tex jacket.
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