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Who We Are
Gurugram is one of the fastest-growing cities in north India. Fast-paced development has led to several issues concerning sustainability and governance.
Gurgaon First is an initiative for positive change focused on issues relating to sustainability, good governance women safety and empowerment in Gurugram. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to highlight issues, suggest solutions, and showcase progress in an effort to improve both the living and working experiences of citizens in the city of Gurugram through conferences/conclaves/ workshops as well as research/publishing. Specifically, some issues that we focus on are smart and sustainable city, sustainable transportation, water and waste management, electricity management, solar energy, green buildings, eco-green initiatives, improving city governance, women’s safety and youth empowerment.
What We Do
Engagement
We engage with stakeholder bodies, CSO and agencies to being about Social Awareness
Shubhra Puri
Founder, Gurgaon First
Impact Stories
Making waste management a way of life
Until the start of this decade, most of us lived in denial as far as waste was concerned. As long as our homes were kept clean, we really did not care where our waste went. Waste for us had no value and its management was the task of the authorities. This mindset has now changed
“Say No to Plastics”
“We made plastic. We depend on it. Now we are drowning in it”. This statement describes quite aptly how once considered a boon, plastics is now threatening to be earth’s most notorious waste. Its strewn everywhere – on streets and waste dumps; blocking sewer pipes, at landfills, floating on rivers and water bodies and messing
Let’s switch to simple living, high thinking/World Environment Day
Last week, as the World Environment Day was approaching, I asked a group of ten-year olds to write a short essay on the topic “less is more”. They were clueless and confused and nonchalantly asked me how could less be more. I took them to my childhood days when sharing of clothes and books were
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