The Beginning
Impact Entrepreneur.
Karmaveer Chakra Awardee.
Meet Our Founder
Saanya
Climate Advocate.
One of the youngest people to visit both the
Arctic and Antarctica on officially documented climate expeditions
Polar Youth Ambassador
But first
let’s rewind - to where the story truly began.
March’22 Antarctica
March 2022
Antarctica
Antarctica is the kind of place where everything makes sense again.
where scale humbles you, silence teaches you, and the horizon reminds you that we belong to something far greater than ourselves.
Antarctica is the coldest, wildest, most climate-sensitive frontier of the planet and is warming nearly four times faster than the global average.
Filmmakers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and storytellers from across the world came together to understand something fundamental:
what happens in the most remote parts of the planet shapes life everywhere else.
We realised that distance is an illusion. Interconnection is not.
Saanya was selected as a Youth Ambassador for the 2041 ClimateForce Antarctica Expedition on leadership, climate change
and sustainability, led by polar explorer Sir Robert Swan OBE - the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles!
July 2025
Arctic Circle
Another edge of the world.
Saanya was handpicked as the only Indian Next Gen Ambassador for the Bears Ice Glaciers Arctic Climate Expedition, led by Ocean Geographic and Dr. Sylvia Earle.
If Antarctica changed perspective.
The Arctic defined purpose.
Here, the fragility felt immediate.
The ice thinner.
The timelines shorter.
The consequences closer to home.
The Belonging
The polar expeditions were live masterclasses. On ice that belongs to
no one, borders feel theoretical and systems feel shared. What
remains is interdependence. We understood how tightly everything is
woven - oceans shaping weather, ice influencing food systems,
decisions in boardrooms affecting coastlines.
Belonging isn't sentimental.
It's structural.
IT'S THE REALISATION THAT CITIZENSHIP EXTENDS BEYOND NATIONALITY. IT'S THE REALISATION THAT CITIZENSHIP EXTENDS BEYOND NATIONALITY. IT'S THE REALISATION THAT CITIZENSHIP EXTENDS BEYOND NATIONALITY.
Climate science met art.
Business met activism.
Policy met lived experience.
Leadership met humility.
While we've never been more connected digitally, we've never felt
further from the natural systems that sustain us. That distance isn't
just cultural. It's consequential. When we stop experiencing nature,
we stop valuing it. When we stop valuing it, protecting it becomes
optional.
That disconnect is the real crisis.
We returned home with one question that kept resurfacing..
How do we bring what happens at the edges back into the centre of Everyday Life?
The Becoming
Back home, life moves fast. Deadlines. Cities. Screens. Noise.
Ice can become a memory.
Urgency can fade.
Awe can turn into a story you once told.
We decided otherwise.
So somewhere between expedition briefings
and pitch deck revisions, between refining
vision, mission, and values - CitizenEarth™ took
shape.
And the purpose became clear to rekindle the bond between humanity and nature.
is shaped by lived experience in the wildest places on the Earth - but built for the everyday. Cities and coastlines, concrete and coast trails, mountains and metros. For those who move between the natural and the modern without choosing one over the other.
CitizenEarth exists at the convergence of three forces -
- Designs that carry meaning,
- Stories that lead to action , and a
- Global community that believes exploration
- and coexistence aren't luxuries, but essentials.
THIS IS NOT JUST A BRAND. IT’S A BOND.
An invitation — to reconnect with nature, live more intentionally, connect more deeply, think beyond borders, and move through the world with perspective.
- For those who live in wonder.
- For those who believe exploration and connection changes you.
- For those who know we are, first and always,
- Citizens of Earth.
Born from the Ice
Built for the Earth
Our Logo/Brand Mascot
Ferð / The Arctic Tern /
[ferth]•Icelandic
(n.) journey; trip; voyage; expedition; travel.
A word rooted in movement across vast, elemental landscapes shaped by wind, ice and sea. In Icelandic, ferð is not simply travel - it is the act of setting out with intention.
The Arctic Tern is the greatest migrator on the planet, traveling from the Arctic to Antarctica and back each year - covering close to 70,000 kilometers annually. It carries memory, perspective and survival across extremes. Flying above glaciers and open oceans, it moves between fragile ecosystems that are changing faster than ever.
Like our founder's journey
from Antarctica to the Arctic
it represents lived experience at the edges of the world.
from Antarctica to the Arctic
it represents lived experience at the edges of the world.
The tern does not remain in one place.
- It observes.
- It adapts.
- It returns with knowledge.
For/CitizenEarth
Ferð
Represents
- - Global perspective
- - Movement with purpose
- - Stories carried across extremes
- - Responsibility that travels
It reflects a continuous passage between hemispheres - migration that is cyclical, conscious and deeply connected to the Earth.
CitizenEarth
[si-ti-zuhn • urth]
(n.) an identity rooted in belonging to the planet first.