Sustainable Development Goals
Women & Climate Action
Avijit Mondal from Kolkata is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Mathematics. He is a bibliophile with a passion for food and is a movie buff. Safecity is his first venture into Blogging. One of his favourite quotes – “One could never count the moons that shimmer [...]Read more
Women- Affected by Climate Change yet Effective in Climate Action
Renita Siqueira is a Communications Officer at Safecity. She has completed her Bachelors in Mass Media from Mumbai. Finding joy in the little things of life, art, craft and fabric painting are some of the things she loves. A fervent reader since childhood, she finds solace [...]Read more
Building Resilience: Women as Climate Actors
All of last week we had focused discussions around SDG 13 – Climate Action from a gendered lens. Our curator, Latha Sankarnarayanan was fantastic and gave us a lot of valuable insights in this subject. The week culminated with a Tweetchat on the role of women and girls in [...]Read more
Below #2 Degrees Path – Climate Action
Last Saturday, our curator Latha Sankarnarayanan held a TweetChat on ways of reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change in our daily life. The tweetchat progressed into a discussion on the effects of climate change on women and women’s role in climate action. [...]Read more
Sustainable Cities & Communities: Increasing Accessibility for Women
Bency Ramakrishnan is student of Law and Public Policy. My intention to bring about a change in the society has always been guided by my strongest belief in the right to equality, from socio-economic and gender perspectives. I wish to witness a society around me that is not a [...]Read more
SDG 11 : Sustainable Cities & Communities – An Overview
For the entire month of April, Safecity made a case for safety, especially women’s safety in our cities and communities – one of the targets of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As a part of this worldwide effort, our focus was on Goal 11 – ‘Make cities inclusive, safe, [...]Read more
Safe Cycling in Indian Cities
Our brilliant Twitter Curator, Anuja Sawant @anujasaw, held a TweetChat on ‘Safe Cycling in Indian Cities’ #SafecycleSDG11. This month, we discussed SDG – 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities on Twitter. This TweetChat was an attempt by our Curator to [...]Read more
Safety in 100 Smart Cities of India
Our amazing Twitter Curator last week, Anuja Sawant, held a TweetChat on Safety in 100 Smart Cities of India as part of our month long discussion on the SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities and its importance for women in particular. Read the interesting exchange of [...]Read more
Join me with Safecity for a discussion on Safe and Sustainable Cities
Anuja Sawant Sarangdhar is an environmental services professional, brought up in Mumbai, and now lives in New Jersey. She has worked with not-for-profit organizations that promote green chemistry, renewable energy, energy conservation, and carbon footprint reduction. She has also [...]Read more