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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.

Climate Change

How The Pandemic Taught Us To Take Science Seriously

Green Queen Team Apr 15, 2020 0

By: Judith Lewis Mernit The mishandling of COVID-19 has unfolded just as the response to global warming has — only at a faster clip. Matthew Ballew chooses his words carefully. As a deadly pandemic disables the world’s economies…
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Climate Change

Earth Scorched In The First 3 Months Of 2020, Warmest January On Record

Green Queen Team Apr 14, 2020 0

By: Mark Kaufman The American economy has seriously sputtered during the coronavirus pandemic, but the planet's relentless warming trend hasn't. After Earth experienced its second-hottest…
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Health

‘Essential’ But Unprotected, Farmworkers Live In Fear Of Covid-19 But Keep Working

Green Queen Team Apr 14, 2020 0

By: Evelyn Nieves Already at high risk of disease and early death, workers are especially prone to respiratory illnesses, setting them up for the worst ravages of the coronavirus. Sixteen men tending budding grapes on a farm in the…
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Health

Happy Birthday To Me: An Open Letter About Healthcare On World Health Day

Green Queen Team Apr 7, 2020 0

In this heartfelt letter on World Health Day, Varun Deshpande, the son of an Indian cancer surgeon, writes passionately about the lack of access to healthcare and the devastating knock-on effect for millions in his own country of India and…
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Health

Ditch The Back Pain: How To Sit Properly While Working From Home

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2020 0

With a third of the global population now officially on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, potentially hundreds of millions of us (if we are lucky enough!) are now working from home. Many of us are already aware that sitting for…
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Health

World Health Day: Good Health & Wellbeing Amidst A Global Pandemic

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2020 0

World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on April 7, launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO). World Health Day this year is happening in the middle of the global Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the…
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Climate Change

‘Nature Is Sending Us A Message’ Says UN Environment Chief

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2020 0

By: Damian Carrington Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts. Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate…
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Climate Change

‘Misinformation Kills:’ The Link Between Coronavirus Conspiracies & Climate Denial

Green Queen Team Apr 6, 2020 0

By: Shannon Osaka Scientific warnings are being ignored, misinformation is spreading, and prominent Republicans have said that addressing the problem is either too expensive or too difficult. No, this isn’t climate change:…
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Climate Change

Aggressive Action To Address Climate Change Could Save The World US$145 Trillion

Green Queen Team Apr 5, 2020 0

By: Dana Nuccitelli Climate solutions are expensive investments in the short run but will yield huge long-term savings, according to new research by Project Drawdown. A respected research group, Project Drawdown, finds that…
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Hong Kong

Virus Brings Surge In Demand From City’s Hungry: How This Hong Kong Charity Is Dealing With Pandemic

Green Queen Team Mar 30, 2020 0

Editor's Note: we are publishing this letter by the team at Feeding Hong Kong to share the incredible challenges facing charities and NGOs during the coronavirus pandemic. Access to funding, supplies and logistics are all compromised at…
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Food & Nutrition

#CopingWithCorona: 32 Ideas For Struggling Chefs, Restaurants & F&B Operators

Green Queen Team Mar 20, 2020 0

The coronavirus (or Covid-19) is now a global pandemic of epic proportions. Entire countries are on lockdown. Air travel is grinding to an almost halt. Working from home is the new norm. Over half a billion children are out of school.…
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Climate Change

Why Don’t We Treat The Climate Crisis With The Same Urgency As Coronavirus?

Green Queen Team Mar 19, 2020 0

By: Owen Jones No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches from No 10, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic. It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to send millions more…
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Climate Change

The Corona Connection: Forest Loss Drives Viruses As Well As Climate Change

Green Queen Team Mar 19, 2020 0

By: Covering Climate Now The same forest destruction that accelerates climate change can also encourage the emergence of diseases such as the coronavirus, Indigenous Peoples’ leaders said March 13 in New York, as they criticized Cargill…
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Climate Change

Coronavirus Shows Us Rapid Global Response To Climate Change Is Possible

Green Queen Team Mar 19, 2020 0

By: Jamie Margolin In this op-ed, a Zero Hour co-founder says we should treat both crises like the emergencies they are. You know that gnawing feeling of “oh, God, we’re in the midst of something horrible” you have because…
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Climate Change

#IWD2020: Lance Lau’s Top 5 Female Role Models

Green Queen Team Mar 7, 2020 0

It's probably no surprise to anyone at this point that here at Green Queen, we're big fans of Hong Kong's eco-hero and young climate activist Lance Lau. Being a solo striker of the #FridaysForFuture movement every week, Lance has since…
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Hong Kong

UN Sustainable Development Goals in Hong Kong: Myths & Challenges

Green Queen Team Feb 28, 2020 0

How much do we in Hong Kong know about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Benita Chick, the founder and CEO of Encompass HK, a social enterprise offering SDG training and consultancy services to organisations, explains the myths and…
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Climate Change

Our Addiction to Ride-Sharing Apps Is Hurting the Environment

Green Queen Team Feb 28, 2020 0

By: Delilah Friedler A new study breaks down how Lyft and Uber contribute to climate change. For climate-conscious Americans, cars are tough: we can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Yet while ride-sharing services like Uber…
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Climate Change

“I’ve Lost Friends”: The Young Climate Strikers Forced To Go It Alone

Green Queen Team Feb 24, 2020 0

By: Jessica Murray Activism can be lonely in rural areas, but social media lets lone children’s voices be amplified. In a remote village in north Norfolk, nine-year-old Amelia Bradbury has been standing alone outside her school gates…
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Climate Change

Is Your Favorite News Source Shilling for Big Oil?

Green Queen Team Feb 13, 2020 0

By: Amy Westervelt Some media companies are creating, not just running, misleading climate ads. Chevron has been all over social media recently with an advertising campaign that asks consumers to test how much they know…
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Climate Change

Australia’s Marine Animals Will Be The Fires’ Unseen Victims

Green Queen Team Feb 5, 2020 0

Ash and silt will choke underwater ecosystems. By: Doug Johnson As wildfires ravage Australia’s land and forests, so far killing an estimated one billion terrestrial animals, researchers worry marine and freshwater species will…
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Climate Change

Warning: Climate Change Will Bring Major New Health Risks For Kids

Green Queen Team Feb 4, 2020 0

By: Kathleen E. Bachynski As we enter a new decade, headlines from across the world make all too clear that the effects of climate change are not just looming. They’re here, they’re now, and they’re devastating communities on every…
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