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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.

Future Foods

Op-Ed: Food Companies Must Lead The Coming Sustainability Revolution

Green Queen Team Jun 4, 2021

By: Priyanka Srinivas Priyanka Srinivas is the founder and CEO of Live Green Co, a Chilean Food Tech startup offering a range of plant-based foods that recently earned a spot on the Fortune 500 of Agri Food Tech. Those inside and…
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Plastic Pollution

Hong Kong’s Plastic Bottle Bill Looks Set For Failure, Here Are 8 Reasons Why

Green Queen Team Jun 1, 2021

By: Aaron Kent Aaron Kent is the founder of Please Drink Responsibly, a Hong Kong-based company providing reusable custom branded cups to businesses switching away from disposables. Hong Kong’s government has recently completed…
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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 May 27, 2021

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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Plastic Pollution

The War On Plastic: Are We Missing The Bigger Picture? Stigmatisation Vs. Deinstitutionalisation

Green Queen Team May 25, 2021

By: Céline Louche, Delphine Gibassier & Jennifer Goodman “Plastic-free aisle”, “No plastic straws”, “Plastic-free Tuesday”. Social media abounds with anti-plastic messages and chilling statistics about the quantity of plastic in our…
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Vegan

‘Vegans Don’t Need Capes’ – Exclusive Extract From New Think Like A Vegan Book

Green Queen Team May 20, 2021

In this excerpt taken from Chapter 2 of the new book “Think Like A Vegan,” co-authors Emilia A. Leese and Eva J. Charalambides push readers to take the first step on a journey that's kinder to the planet, humans and animals. Vegans…
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Interviews

Q&A w/ Asia’s Fastest Growing Alt Meat Startup’s Andre Menezes: ‘TiNDLE Is Ready To Go Global’

Green Queen Team May 20, 2021

Next Gen is the startup behind TiNDLE, the plant-based chicken brand that has taken Asia by storm. After debuting in restaurants in Singapore, the company is now taking the brand global, announcing today (May 20) that TiNDLE is launching…
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Climate Change

There Aren’t Enough Trees In The World To Offset Society’s Carbon Emissions, & There Never Will Be

Green Queen Team May 18, 2021

By: Bonnie Waring One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in central Costa Rica, light-headed from diesel fumes as I clutched my many suitcases. They contained thousands of test tubes and sample…
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Alt Protein

Q&A w/ CellAgri Founder Ahmed Khan: Can Cell-Based Meat Be Halal?

Green Queen Team May 12, 2021

Cellular agriculture consultant Ahmed Khan is the founder of CellAgri, a news and market insights company exploring the space and tracking trends and startups. Ahmed is also the author of the first cellular agriculture…
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Climate Change

Q&A: Makers Behind Student-Led Climate Inequality Film ‘OUR 4°C-ABLE WORLD’ – ‘The Problem Lies In The Communication Of…

Green Queen Team May 5, 2021

OUR 4°C-ABLE WORLD is a new student-led theatrical production that has premiered on YouTube on May 1, centred on the disproportionate impact of the climate emergency on marginalised communities. Following the fictional story of teenage…
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Alt Protein

Animal-Free Dairy Is Here. But Is It Vegan?

Green Queen Team May 4, 2021

The food on your plate is changing. And it's not just the advent of plant-based eating, which is suddenly everywhere, from Michelin-Starred tables to fast-food chains. We are entering a brand new era of slaughter-free menus and products,…
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Alt Protein

10 Things We Learned From Oatly’s IPO Prospectus, With Alt Protein APAC Investor Michal Klar

Green Queen Team May 3, 2021

The Oatly IPO is one of the most anticipated public listings of the year. We spoke to Asia Pacific alt protein investor Michal Klar of Future Food Now, an ecosystem expert we regularly collaborate with (last November, we published the…
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Climate Change

‘Now Is The Time To Act,’ Says NowThis Climate Documentary Featuring Kamala Harris

Green Queen Team Apr 30, 2021

By: Mark Hertsgaard Warning of wars over water, the U.S. vice president joins activists, business leaders, and other Biden administration officials urging stronger action. The vice president of the United States is predicting that…
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Climate Change

Greta Thunberg On Her Gap Year Climate Change Tour, Joe Biden & Turning 18

Green Queen Team Apr 27, 2021

On an overcast August morning, the world watched as Greta Thunberg set sail from a quaint port city in southwest England aboard a racing yacht en route to the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in New York City. The voyage marked a…
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Climate Change

Biden Pledges To Halve U.S. Emissions By 2030 At Climate Summit

Green Queen Team Apr 23, 2021

By: Sharon Zhang President Joe Biden on Thursday has pledged to cut carbon emissions from the U.S. to half of what they were in 2005 by the end of this decade. His announcement came on the first day of a virtual climate summit hosted by…
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Climate Change

‘Within Minutes I Was Weeping’ – The U.S. Pastor Using Scripture To Mobilise Climate Action

Green Queen Team Apr 22, 2021

By: Melissa Godin The Rev Scott Hardin-Nieri regularly revisits the story of Noah’s ark. “People look at that story fondly, because they focus on all the animals that were saved,” the pastor says. But for Hardin-Nieri, Noah’s ark…
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Climate Change

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

Green Queen Team Apr 21, 2021

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. These are…
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Climate Change

Stressed About The Climate Crisis? How Therapists Are Treating Eco-Anxiety

Green Queen Team Apr 19, 2021

By: Isobel Whitcomb Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one,…
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Climate Change

10 Reasons Why Indian Cities Continue To Top the World’s ‘Most Polluted’ Lists

Green Queen Team Apr 19, 2021

By: Sarath Guttikunda Delhi has once again topped the chart of the world’s capital cities with the worst PM2.5 annual average levels in 2020. Another 34 Indian cities are in the top 50, according to the report by IQAir. That…
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Climate Change

Now Is Our Last Best Chance To Confront The Climate Crisis

Green Queen Team Apr 18, 2021

By: Jeff Goodell With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error. The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In…
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Climate Change

Our Oceans Are Heating Up, And Worsening The Climate Crisis…Can We Fix It?

Green Queen Team Apr 18, 2021

By: Harold R. Wanless Humans have locked in at least 20 feet of sea level rise—can we still fix it? The climate emergency is bigger than many experts, elected officials, and activists realize. Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions…
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Climate Change

A Tale Of Two Climate Migrants: What Global Warming Does To Weather Refugees

Green Queen Team Apr 18, 2021

By: Jeremy Deaton The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, but it does not always welcome climate migrants. Climate change is fueling longer dry spells, bigger floods and more violent…
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