Author

Green Queen Team 253 posts 0 comments

We INFORM. We INSPIRE. We EMPOWER. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras in 2011, Green Queen is an award-winning sustainability & impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Asia. Our mission is to shift consumer behaviour through our authentic, original and ground-breaking content.

Climate Change

Big Oil Lied To Us: The Takeaway From An Explosive New Docuseries

Green Queen Team May 2, 2022

By Chris McGreal. There is a moment in the revelatory PBS Frontline docuseries The Power of Big Oil, about the industry’s long campaign to stall action on the climate crisis, in which the former Republican senator Chuck Hagel…
Read More...

Climate Change

Bioacoustics: Listening To Nature Is Our Only Option To Solve The Climate Crisis

Green Queen Team May 1, 2022

As current climate conversations overwhelmingly lack both heart and accessibility, Joycelyn Longdon, an environmental PhD student at Cambridge, tackles the subject from an education and action-focused perspective – not for aimless…
Read More...

Climate Change

The History Of Earth Day: From Radical Roots To Elementary School Classrooms

Green Queen Team Apr 22, 2022 0

By: Molly Taft If you ask Adam Rome, Earth Day isn’t as punk as it used to be. “Earth Day is so tame nowadays,” says Rome, the author of The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green…
Read More...

Climate Change

US Congressman Jamie Raskin: Only Democracy Can Save Our Species

Green Queen Team Apr 21, 2022

By Ankito Rao. Progressive congressman from Maryland believes that no other crisis, even the existential threat of the changing climate, can be solved without first protecting the fabric of American democracy On the one hand there is…
Read More...

Alt Protein

Cultivated Meat And Cow-Free Dairy Deliver On Protein But Don’t Ravage The Planet

Green Queen Team Apr 18, 2022

By: Evan Fraser, University of Guelph, Katherine Alexandra Newman, University of Victoria, Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley, Michael von Massow, University of Guelph, Robert…
Read More...

Circular Economy

Sustainable Wardrobes Depend On A 75% Reduction In New Items

Green Queen Team Apr 15, 2022

By: Samantha Sharpe, Monique Retamal, Taylor Brydges, University of Technology Sydney. If things don’t change fast, the fashion industry could use a quarter of the world’s remaining global carbon budget to keep…
Read More...

Climate Change

Pop Culture Role Models Could Be Surprising Allies In Fight Against Climate Crisis

Green Queen Team Apr 15, 2022

By: Denise Baden, University of Southampton It is often implied that all we need are technological solutions and more renewable energy to solve our environmental issues. But history teaches us that as technology progresses and we…
Read More...

Climate Change

Climate Scientists Are Getting Arrested For Trying To Spread Their Message

Green Queen Team Apr 9, 2022

By Peter Kalmus. On Wednesday, I was arrested for locking myself onto an entrance to the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown LA. I can’t stand by – and nor should you. “Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals,…
Read More...

Covering Climate Now

Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies

Green Queen Team Apr 5, 2022

The oil and gas industry uses universities to influence environmental policy. Here’s how we fight back. By Ilana Cohen and Jake Lowe As student organizers, we’ve seen the power of divestment come to bear by helping secure historic…
Read More...

Alt Protein

Top 5 Things I Tasted At Future Food Tech San Francisco

Green Queen Team Apr 5, 2022

Despite our team missing what felt like the alt protein industry reunion of the year (major FOMO), we managed to to get Vegan Women Summit founder Jennifer Stojkovic to tell us what her favorite things were so we could share them with you.…
Read More...

Animal Rights

Octopus Farms Raise Massive Ethical And Evironmental Concerns

Green Queen Team Mar 31, 2022

By Alexandra Schnell, University of Cambridge, Heather Browning, London School of Economics and Political Science, Jonathan Birch, London School of Economics and Political Science When you imagine an octopus’s…
Read More...

Interviews

‘We Need To Find Solutions That Work For Everyone’ – A Chat with Chris Huriwai and Amy Taylor of ‘Milked’ Documentary

Green Queen Team Mar 25, 2022

Vegan Māori activist Chris Huriwai and director Amy Taylor talk about the film 'Milked' and how it exposes New Zealand's multibillion-dollar dairy industry, the ongoing cover-up of its environmental and ethical track record. and where…
Read More...

Climate Change

10 Ways That War Impacts On Wildlife And Essential EcoSystems

Green Queen Team Mar 24, 2022

By John. R. Platt As war and conflicts rage on in Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, Libya and other places around the globe, it’s important to look at the long-term effects of military strife, which can destroy the environment as easily as…
Read More...

Health

How To Reduce Your Blue Light Exposure

Green Queen Team Mar 15, 2022 0

Even before the pandemic, the amount of time we spend in front screens has been growing by double digits every year, and with that, concerns about the consequences to our health. The more screen time we endure, the more artificial blue…
Read More...

Climate Change

Major Climate Research Publisher Found To Be Supporting Oil And Gas Drilling

Green Queen Team Mar 2, 2022

By Amy Westervelt Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian…
Read More...

Beauty

5 DIY Homemade Vegan Face Mask Recipes We’re Loving

Green Queen Team Feb 8, 2022 0

A good friend once told me: don’t put on your skin what you wouldn’t put in your mouth. When it comes to natural beauty advice, The ongoing pandemic situ has forced us to review our dietary choices and become savvier with the resources we…
Read More...

Covering Climate Now

Climate Migrants Might Be The Answer To A Clean Economy

Green Queen Team Feb 4, 2022

By Alex Robinson. The coral atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati is a 29-kilometre-long triangle of white sandy beaches in the central Pacific Ocean. But it isn’t paradise for many residents, who are on the front lines of the climate crisis. …
Read More...

Climate Change

New Research Claims Coffee May Become Harder To Source And More Expensive As Climate Change Rages On

Green Queen Team Feb 3, 2022

The world could lose half of its best coffee-growing land under a moderate climate change scenario. Brazil, which is the currently world’s largest coffee producer, will see its most suitable coffee-growing land decline by 79%. …
Read More...

Covering Climate Now

Big Oil Accused Of Preventing Climate Law Suits Through Disinformation And Scare Tactics

Green Queen Team Feb 3, 2022

By Chris McGreal. US oil firms have been accused of using scare tactics after telling a federal court on Tuesday that lawsuits alleging fossil fuel companies lied about the climate crisis could threaten America’s oil supply. At a…
Read More...

Beauty

How To Get Rid of Maskne and Take Care Of Your Skin During Covid-19

Green Queen Team Feb 2, 2022 0

Wearing a mask in public spaces at all times has become the norm, but two years in and they can do a number on your skin, causing dryness and the dreaded maskne. Here's how to battle it. Below we talk about how to deal with this new…
Read More...

Climate Change

Carbon Farming Could Make Agriculture More Climate Positive But Only If There Are Defined Terms

Green Queen Team Jan 31, 2022

As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon farming” as a mutually beneficial strategy for society, the…
Read More...

Load More Posts