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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.

Alt Protein

Icelandic startup Loki Foods Unveils Sustainable Plant-Based Atlantic Cod Fillet

Green Queen Team Aug 8, 2022

Icelandic startup Loki Foods has raised a pre-seed $650,000 to develop a line of realistic and nutritional alternative seafood products, including a whole-cut, plant-based white fish fillet alternative. The company says their sustainable…
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Health

How To Reduce Your Blue Light Exposure

Green Queen Team Aug 4, 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…
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Climate Change

17 Young People On The Moment The Climate Crisis Became Real To Them

Green Queen Team Jul 30, 2022

By: Mary Retta Watching An Inconvenient Truth in your middle-school science class. Hearing Greta Thunberg’s calls to join weekly school strikes. Driving away from smouldering wildfires engulfing dry California hillsides. …
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Green Business

Top 100 Sustainable Companies In The World Prove That Going Green Is A Profitable Move

Green Queen Team Jul 28, 2022

By Mike Scott. The global pandemic continued to highlight society’s inequalities in 2021, while heat waves, wildfires and floods reminded us of the urgency of the climate crisis. It was a year when environmental, social and governance…
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Animal Rights

Octopus Farms Raise Massive Ethical And Evironmental Concerns

Green Queen Team Jul 26, 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…
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Climate Change

12 Environmental Novels for Your Summer Reading List

Green Queen Team Jul 23, 2022

Check out these new environmental novels that help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.
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Research & Scientific Studies

Why Nitrates and Nitrites in Processed Meats are Harmful, But Those in Vegetables Aren’t

Green Queen Team Jul 20, 2022

By Richard Hoffman Many of us know that we should steer away from processed meats and eat more vegetables if we want to be healthier and lower our chances of developing certain types of cancers. While there are many reasons processed…
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Alt Materials

5 Ways Fungi Could Change The World, From Cleaning Water to Breaking Down Plastics

Green Queen Team Jul 13, 2022

By: Mitchell P. Jones Fungi — a scientific goldmine? Well, that’s what a review published today in the journal Trends in Biotechnology indicates. You may think mushrooms are a long chalk from the caped crusaders of…
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Climate Change

Meat, Monopolies, Mega Farms: How the US Food System Fuels the Climate Crisis

Green Queen Team Jul 12, 2022

By: Amanda Schupak From a beef-heavy diet to growing crops that don’t feed people – the biggest challenges facing the agriculture industry. Food and the climate crisis are locked in a tangled web of cause and effect. Globally, food…
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Vegan

I’ve Been Plant-Based for 13 Years. Here’s What I’ve Learned.

Green Queen Team Jul 7, 2022

By: Theresa "Sam" Houghton August will be my 13-year "veg-versary." It's been an interesting journey. I first dipped my toes in the veg-curious waters as a teenager who thought going vegan would be a great way to lose weight—because we…
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Climate Change

Using Captured CO₂ In Everyday Products Could Help Fight Climate Change, But Do Consumers Want Them?

Green Queen Team Jul 4, 2022

By: Lucca Henrion, Joe Árvai, Lauren Lutzke & Volker Sick Would you drink carbonated beverages made with carbon dioxide captured from the smokestack of a factory or power plant? How would you feel if that captured carbon dioxide…
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Climate Change

Chilli peppers, coffee, wine: how the climate crisis is causing food shortages

Green Queen Team Jul 2, 2022

By: Victoria Namkung Blistering heat, stronger storms, droughts, floods and fires are putting food production at risk. Sriracha fans are a passionate bunch. They have been known to get tattoos of the popular hot sauce on…
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Alt Protein

Behind The Burger: How Scientists Make Plant-Based Foods Look, Taste & Cook Like Meat

Green Queen Team Jun 29, 2022

By: Mariana Lamas In 2019, Burger King Sweden released a plant-based burger, the Rebel Whopper, and the reaction was underwhelming. So, the company challenged its customers to taste the difference. Burger King Sweden created menu…
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Circular Economy

From Plastic Waste to “Green Concrete”: Sino Group Partners with EcoBricks to Inaugurate Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment

Green Queen Team Jun 20, 2022

An inaugural partnership between Hong Kong real estate developer Sino Group and local sustainability-focused startup EcoBricks upcycled over 5,400 kg of plastic waste into construction bricks at the city’s Gold Coast in the Tuen Mun…
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Vegan

10 Asian Vegan Breakfast Recipes, From Cauli Banh Mi To Kimchi Pancakes

Green Queen Team Jun 18, 2022 0

There's a Russian proverb that goes something like this: "Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with friends and give your dinner to your enemies." Not sure about the dinner part, but sometimes it's nice to treat yo-self before you start your…
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Climate Change

Op-Ed: War and Food Supply Chain Disruptions Reveal Global Food System Vulnerability

Green Queen Team Jun 3, 2022

By: Irina Gerry We need to rethink our food system and secure a better future. Here's why. The first shock came just a couple of months ago with disruption of sunflower oil supply. The world’s largest supplier, Ukraine, was cut off…
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Alt Protein

Cultivated Meat Might Seem Alien But It’s Better Than Animal Agriculture

Green Queen Team May 30, 2022

By Matti Wilks. The world is in the grips of a food-tech revolution. One of the most compelling new developments is cultured meat, also known as clean, cell-based or slaughter-free meat. It’s grown from stem cells taken from a live…
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Vegan

What Draws Seventh Day Adventists to Vegan And Vegetarian Lifestyles?

Green Queen Team May 29, 2022

By Tamas Lestar. Christianity is often regarded as a staunch opponent of veganism – after all, most Christian denominations are highly carnivorous in their dietary ethics. Many proclaim liberty to consume animal flesh as they assume…
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Alt Protein

Future Food-Tech’s Dedicated Alt Protein Summit To Connect Global Leaders & Innovators Disrupting How We Eat

Green Queen Team May 24, 2022

According to non-profit think tank the Good Food Institute's State of the Industry 2021 report, over $5 billion was invested into alternative protein startup last year, up from over $3 billion the year before. As huge challenges continue…
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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…
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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…
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