Shail Shrestha
Shail Shrestha is the director of the sustainability school at Digo Bikas Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal, and President of Cycle City Network Nepal. He is also a founding member and Nepal coordinator of Carfree Cities Alliance, a network dedicated to the development and promotion of a car-free urban future.
Bicycles and Localization
World Celebration Days are ways to highlight a cause, to collectively focus and bring important ideas to public attention at the community level while uniting globally behind them. Several important days were packed into the month of June. These included World Bicycle Day, followed two days later by World Environment Day, and then World Localization…
The Paris Climate Talks: A Nepali View
Before the COP21 meetings in Paris, I had never attended an international negotiation of any kind. Perhaps as a result, I participated in the event without preconceptions. Based on my experiences at the talks, I brought back to Nepal new and sometimes alarming understandings that will guide me in my continued activism for justice and…