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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

Pollution from Fossil Fuels Increase Infertility Rates for Men and Women, Study Finds

Green Queen Team Dec 21, 2021

Fossil fuel pollution is putting our future in jeopardy by contributing to climate change. But scientists say there’s another risk factor, too: increased infertility rates. According to a new study published in the journal Nature…
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Vegan

10 Vegan Holiday Mains From the Pre-Made Roasts to the Best Recipes

Green Queen Team Dec 19, 2021

Dig into these delicious vegan holiday mains you can get at your local supermarket, order online, or make at home. When it comes down to it, there's nothing more magical about the holidays than gathering around the table with the…
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Plastic Pollution

A Microbial Evolutionary Response to Microplastic: Learn How to Eat It

Green Queen Team Dec 17, 2021

Microbes found in oceans and soil are showing evolutionary adaptations that allow them to digest microplastic—and this could help fight plastic pollution. Microbes have long been early adopters of evolution—credit their short life…
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Health

New Study Shows Diners Are More Likely To Choose Vegetarian Food From A Menu With Less Than 25% Meat Options

Green Queen Team Dec 15, 2021

By Beth Parkin Farming animals for food is responsible for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. If left unchallenged, the influence of this industry alone would probably make it impossible for the world to meet its target of…
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Alt Protein

Jack & Annie’s Closes $23 Million Series B to Expand ‘the Next Generation of Plant-Based Meat’: Jackfruit

Green Queen Team Dec 14, 2021

Leading vegan frozen food brand Jack & Annie's has announced the closing of its series B funding round. Pulling in $23 million, the funding is led by Creadev, Desert Bloom, Wheatsheaf, and existing investors Beta Angeles and Investco.…
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Covering Climate Now

The 30 Day Action Plan That Will Help You Tackle the Climate Crisis

Green Queen Team Dec 9, 2021

By: John R. Platt Doing something every day will help to change your attitude and create momentum for change. A recent poll found that people today, especially younger people, feel helpless when it comes to fighting climate change. …
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Alt Protein

The Every Company Raises $175M to Crack Open the Precision Fermentation Egg Market

Green Queen Team Dec 8, 2021

In an oversubscribed Series C funding round, Bay Area platform The Every Company has raised an additional $175 million for its precision fermentation egg protein, bringing its total funding to more than $230 million. A roster of new and…
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Vegan

The Healthiest Diet Is Also the Most Sustainable One, Health and Climate Experts Agree

Green Queen Team Dec 6, 2021

The distance between the best diet for human and planetary health is shrinking. What’s the healthiest diet? Ask a doctor or nutritionist and there will be overlaps, certainly—more fruits and vegetables, minimally processed foods. But…
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Research & Scientific Studies

Electric Cars Alone Won’t Save The Planet. We’ll Need to Design Cities So People Can Walk and Cycle Safely

Green Queen Team Nov 28, 2021

By Timothy Welch At the COP26 climate summit, world politicians patted themselves on their backs for coming to a last-minute agreement. Humanity now waits with bated breath to see if countries implement the commitments they made,…
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Research & Scientific Studies

Shipping Emissions Must Fall By a Third by 2030 and Reach Zero Before 2050 – New Research

Green Queen Team Nov 25, 2021

By Simon Bullock, Alice Larkin and James Mason International shipping is a crucial part of the global economy – 90% of the world’s trade is transported by sea. But almost all ships use fossil fuels, and so the sector is also a…
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Climate Change

Oil Companies Ploughing Money into Fossil Fuelled Plastics Production at a Record Rate – New Research

Green Queen Team Nov 24, 2021

By Fredric Bauer and Tobias Dan Nielsen Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas…
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Climate Change

The Climate Crisis Is Forcing Women and Girls to Sell Their Bodies

Green Queen Team Nov 22, 2021

By Anya Zoledziowski A family fell on such hard times after a cyclone that when a man offered their daughter, 17, a job, they agreed. They later learned she was forced into the sex trade. In May 2020, when the catastrophic…
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Climate Change

6 Books To Read on Climate Justice and Nature Centring Marginalised People

Green Queen Team Nov 19, 2021

By Francisca Rockey If you walk into your local library or bookshop and you’re looking for a book on nature or the climate crisis, you’re likely to find that most of the texts are written by white people; meaning most of our…
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Alt Protein

General Mills Brand Bold Cultr Debuts As First Major U.S. Precision Fermentation Cheese Launch

Green Queen Team Nov 19, 2021

General Mills has become the first major food brand to dive into precision fermentation dairy. This week, it announced the launch of Bold Cultr—animal-free cheese made from Perfect Day's whey. "Bold Cultr is one of the world’s first…
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Climate Change

COP26 Ends With Promises, But Not Nearly Enough Progress

Green Queen Team Nov 18, 2021

By Tina Gerhardt The UN climate conference’s agreement acknowledges several key issues for the first time—but doesn’t do enough to address them. As COP26 drew to a close with the Glasgow Climate Pact, a 10-page document,…
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Alt Protein

Sustainable Precision Fermentation ‘Dairy Identical’ Imagindairy Raises $13 Million In Seed Round

Green Queen Team Nov 18, 2021

As demand for animal-free milk and dairy products rises, Israel's Imagindairy closes a robust seed round for its precision fermentation milk technology. Completing its seed round, Israeli-based dairy identical food tech brand…
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Research & Scientific Studies

Vegan, Vegetarian and Flexitarian Diets Could Save You Money – New Study

Green Queen Team Nov 17, 2021

By: Marco Springmann Many people are choosing to make the switch to plant-based diets for many reasons – including as a way of cutting their climate footprint or to be healthier. Yet there’s long been the notion that…
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Climate Change

How Climate Change Threatens Pregnant Women and Their Fetuses

Green Queen Team Nov 15, 2021

By Cara Korte World leaders will turn their focus to gender Tuesday at the U.N. global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Globally, women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men, as they make…
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Climate Change

‘Nice’ Isn’t Going to Save the Planet

Green Queen Team Nov 15, 2021

By Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt In a rapidly heating world, we don’t have time for etiquette. “No matter what he says today,” climate activist Lauren MacDonald said through tears in her opening lines at…
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Alt Protein

Perfect Day’s Dairy-Identical Alt Milk Lands at Starbucks

Green Queen Team Nov 13, 2021

Coffee giant Starbucks is testing Perfect Day's fungi-based dairy-identical milk in select Seattle locations, the company announced earlier this week. Perfect Day, the Bay Area food-tech startup, has been on a roll. The brand, which is…
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Climate Change

How Young People Are Using Climate Litigation to Fight for Their Future

Green Queen Team Nov 12, 2021

By Alex Robinson Millennials and Gen Zs are suing governments and pension funds over their failures to address the climate crisis. It all started with an email. Mark McVeigh was procrastinating one day, as university students do,…
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