About Green Queen
Founded by serial entrepreneur and environmentalist Sonalie Figueiras in 2011, Green Queen is a multi-channel digital news platform and a trusted global impact media brand. Our award-winning reporting reaches millions of readers globally. Green Queen is the world’s leading food and climate media, focusing on future food innovation and food system decarbonization – one of the most important consumer products and investment opportunities of our time. Our coverage includes breaking news and product launches, in-depth research and industry insights, and exclusive interviews with entrepreneurs and key ecosystem players from every continent.
Award-Winning Reporting
In 2020, 2021 and 2022 (three years in a row) Green Queen Media was awarded the prestigious Best In World Special Awards Prize by the Hallbars Sustainability Reports Awards, a Swedish organisation that recognises the best planet-led reporting around the world for our outstanding contribution to raising awareness about climate change for our annual APAC Alternative Protein Industry Report. Our 2021 report also won the Hallbars Sustainability Reports Awards – Best Plant-Based Institutions
The Green Queen Difference
- Award-winning reporting
- Leading food and climate news media globally
- Trusted impact media brand
- Most visited sustainability media in Asia
- 20+ million monthly digital impressions
Our Content Universe
- Digital news media platform
- In-depth content series about Blended Meat, Ozempic, Meat Misinformation, Carbon Offsets, Food is Medicine
- Weekly columns including Future Food Quick Bites
- Trend Reports & Predictions (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- Newsletters
- Future Food Weekly 2023 – current)
- Green Queen Gulf – 2024-2025
- Green Queen Alt Protein Weekly (2020 – 2023
- Green Queen Industry Scoop (2019 – 2020)
- Green Queen on Mondays (2014 – 2023)
- Green Queen Alt Fashion Monthly (2021)
- Reports & Speciality Publications
- Social Media
- Podcasts
Our Origin Story
Just over a decade ago, Sonalie Figueiras was attempting to live a greener, healthier life in Hong Kong. It was hard work. Putting together an organic meal meant going to 3 supermarkets and 2 health food shops. Replenishing bathroom products meant travelling 45 minutes on the MTR to find eco-friendly shampoo. Cleaning her apartment meant convincing her husband that paying an extra 30% more for what seemed like nothing more than lemon and water was in fact going to save their lungs. But over time, her little ‘green’ book of addresses got longer. Convinced that there were others like her out there, she decided to create an online guide where she could share her findings. And voila! Green Queen was born. Meet the rest of our incredible Green Queen Team.
About Our Founder
AsiaGlobal Fellow 2025, 2021 Women of Power, 2019 GEN T Honouree, V Label Global Hero, and two-time TEDx Speaker: serial social entrepreneur and trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is a sustainability expert, food futurist, and eco-powerhouse who has been inspiring international audiences for over a decade with practical steps to combat climate change. Known globally as the Green Queen, she is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Green Queen, the original impact media platform that educates millions about the link between food technology and climate change. She is also the co-founder and CEO of organic sourcing platform Ekowarehouse and climate tech SaaS Source Green. Additionally, Sonalie is a global keynote speaker, an advisor to multiple mission-driven startups and NGOs, and a venture partner and advisor to several venture capital funds.
Our Editorial Policy
Green Queen is an editorially-driven media publication. Sponsors and partners do not influence our editorial decisions or our content choices. Paid articles are clearly marked as such: look for ‘This is a Green Queen Partner Post’ at the bottom of the page.
We INFORM. We INSPIRE. We EMPOWER.