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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.

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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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Future Foods

Ecovado Targets the Avocado Environmental Impact: Will Consumers Buy It?

Green Queen Team Aug 8, 2022

We all know what happened in February when the U.S. temporarily halted imports of avocados from Mexico just ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. Could a sustainable faux avocado be the answer to that and avocado environmental impact? Meet Ecovado. …
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Alt Protein

Nestlé Eyes National Fast-Food Opportunity for Its Vegan Burgers With Nomoo

Green Queen Team Aug 5, 2022

Could multinational food giant Nestlé become the first name in vegan fast food burgers? With its newest partnership with plant-based burger chain Nomoo, that could be the case. California-based vegan burger restaurant Nomoo says it…
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Alt Protein

Impossible Foods Debuts Vegan Chicken Nuggets In Asia With Hong Kong Launch

Green Queen Team Aug 5, 2022

Bay Area vegan meat brand Impossible Foods is debuting its chicken nuggets in Asia with a Hong Kong launch this month. Impossible Foods entered the chicken wars last year with its vegan nuggets across the U.S. Burger King trialed the…
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Health

Eating Red Meat Linked to 22% Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Green Queen Team Aug 4, 2022

New research links chemicals produced in the gut after consuming red meat to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), which is produced by gut microbes in the meat digestion process, has already been…
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Alt Protein

China’s First Mycelium Meat to Launch This Year As Vegan Food Sales Near $12 Billion

Green Queen Team Aug 4, 2022

Shanghai-based mycelium protein company, 70/30, says it's ready to launch its vegan shredded chicken in China in a national first. The new vegan chicken shreds made from biomass fermented protein will be a first for China, which has…
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Biodiversity

A New Approach to Soil Health: 2 Crops Stand Out for Rewilding

Green Queen Team Aug 3, 2022

Rewilding polluted land can help to heal soil, promote biodiversity, and sequester carbon. Two plants stand out, according to new research. According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem…
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Gardening

At $30 Million, Vertical Farm Spread Co. Sets Japan’s Series A Record High

Green Queen Team Aug 3, 2022

Marking the largest single fundraising for food tech in Japan, vertical farming giant Spread has secured $30 million (¥4 billion) in its Series A. The Kyoto-based vertical farming operation is not new to the food space. It's been…
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Climate Change

How Brexit, Climate Change, and Covid Helped Break the U.K.’s Food System

Green Queen Team Aug 2, 2022

In its flagship report on the state of the U.K.'s food system, The Food Foundation reveals struggles across the country in the wake of Brexit, covid, and the ongoing impact of climate change. "The Broken Plate" report from the Food…
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Alt Dairy

Zero Acre Farms and Lypid Bring Their Designer Vegan Fats to Market

Green Queen Team Aug 2, 2022

More than 500 Louisa Coffee shops across Taiwan now offer vegan burgers made with Lypid's proprietary vegan PhytoFat. And after months in stealth mode, Zero Acre Farms brings its cultured oil to market. With a taste and texture that…
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Alt Protein

New Research Says a Plant-Based Diet Is Best for Humans and the Planet

Green Queen Team Aug 1, 2022

What's the healthiest diet for humans? And the healthiest diet for the planet? New research says they're one and the same: a plant-based diet. The Mediterranean Diet continues to top the best diet list put out by U.S. News and World…
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Alt Dairy

Oat Milk Sales Rise 50% As Plant-Based Milk Growth Surpasses $2.3 Billion

Green Queen Team Aug 1, 2022

U.S. plant-based milk sales grew by 6.4 percent to nearly $2.3 billion in the 52 weeks ending June 12, 2022, with oat milk poised for continued dominance. While almond milk is still the plant-based milk category leader, with more than…
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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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Rising Ocean Temperatures Are Reducing Omega-3 Fatty Acids In the Food Chain, Research Finds

Green Queen Team Jul 29, 2022

New research on the impact of climate change finds rising ocean temperatures are leading to a decrease in omega-3 fatty acid production in plankton. According to the findings, published in the journal Science, essential fatty acids will…
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Alt Protein

‘No Part of the Plant Is Left Out’: Tech Startup Creates Waste-Free Protein

Green Queen Team Jul 29, 2022

Gavan Technologies, an Israel-based food tech startup, says it has developed a "waste-free" extraction method for plant-based protein. “Our new, multistep technological platform enables us to take any plant source, isolate and extricate…
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Alt Protein

The Price Gap Between Plant-Based And Conventional Meat Is Shrinking, New Analysis Finds

Green Queen Team Jul 28, 2022

New findings published by ProVeg Netherlands show pricing between meat and alternative protein is shrinking. ProVeg Netherlands Worked with Questionmark on the pricing analysis across Dutch grocery stores. The researchers looked at 36…
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Alt Protein

Shiok Meats Partners With Vietnam’s Largest Shrimp Producer on Cultivated Seafood R&D

Green Queen Team Jul 28, 2022

Singapore's Shiok Meats and Vietnam's Minh Phu Seafood have signed a memo of understanding to develop a combined R&D facility to help bring cultivated seafood to Asia. The new R&D facility will be based in Vietnam in a move…
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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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Fashion

Huue Closes a $14.6 Million Series A to Disrupt Denim Dyeing

Green Queen Team Jul 27, 2022

Synthetic bio startup Huue has raised $14.6 million in a Series A funding round for what it says is the world's first clean and scalable indigo dye for denim. “The world can’t wait for sustainable solutions, and consumers are starting…
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Alt Dairy

How Wunderkern’s Stone Fruit Pit Vegan Ice Cream Is Tackling Food Waste

Green Queen Team Jul 27, 2022

No longer a guilty pleasure—vegan ice cream is now a way to combat food waste, according to Austrian food tech startup Wunderkern. The Vienna and Lower Austria-based Wunderkern, founded in 2019 by Michael Beitl, Luca Fichtinger, Fabian…
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The Good Food Accelerator Program Brings $10 Million In Solutions to China’s Food System

Green Queen Team Jul 26, 2022

Over the next three years, DayDayCook and Brinc will invest $10 million in 45 food tech companies working to address global food sustainability, specifically bringing game-changing tech to Asia's food systems. Applications are now being…
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