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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.

Fossil Fuel Firms Linked To Trump Get Millions In Coronavirus Small Business Aid

Green Queen Team May 11, 2020 0

By: Emily Holden Revealed: Oil and mining firms – some with ties to Trump officials – taking advantage of funding, review shows. US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to…
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South Korea Tackled The Coronavirus. Now It’s Taking On The Climate Crisis.

Green Queen Team May 8, 2020 0

By: Alexander C. Kaufman The world’s seventh-largest emitter has launched a Green New Deal. But critics say there are big problems. South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s ruling party won a landslide victory in last month’s national…
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Particle Accelerator Can Make Stronger Cherry Blossoms To Weather Global Heating

Green Queen Team May 6, 2020 0

By: Roku Goda Cherry blossoms have long been loved by Japanese and celebrated in poetry as harbingers of spring. In the early Heian Period (794-1185), Ariwara no Narihira penned a piece about how people became very excited every spring…
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Locusts & Covid-19: Africa Braces For A Double Blow

Green Queen Team May 6, 2020 0

By: Robert Kibet With imposed flight restrictions across borders to help contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, countries in the East and Horn of Africa are finding it hard to respond to a double shock as a second wave of…
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North Pole May Be Clear Water By Mid-Century

Green Queen Team May 2, 2020 0

By: Tim Radford Within 30 years, there could be clear blue water over the North Pole – not good news for most of the planet. Within three decades, the North Pole could be free of sea ice in the late summer. The latest and most…
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A New Vision For Farming: Chickens, Sheep, And … Solar Panels

Green Queen Team May 2, 2020 0

By: Lynn Freehill-Maye When Jackie Augustine opens a chicken coop door one brisk spring morning in upstate New York, the hens bolt out like windup toys. Still, as their faint barnyard scent testifies, they aren’t battery-powered…
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Want To Slow The Climate Crisis? Don’t Use Single-Use Plastics.

Green Queen Team May 1, 2020 0

By: Annie Leonard The fossil fuel industry is dependent on our plastic dependency. We can starve it. The fossil fuel industry is in trouble and has a sneaky idea for saving itself: It wants to produce lots more plastic. Many…
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The Silver Lining Of COVID-19? Recycling & Sustainability Are At An All-Time High

Green Queen Team May 1, 2020 0

By: George Valiotis Now, more than ever, leaders need to take concrete actions to build a more sustainable world. There are two sides to any story, even during pandemics. While social distancing and the…
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The 10 Best Books On Climate Change, According To Climate Activists

Green Queen Team May 1, 2020 0

By: Julia Fine A record number of Americans are concerned about climate change, a recent study by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication found. If…
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Don’t Bail Out Oil & Gas — Use The Money For Environmental Cleanup Instead

Green Queen Team Apr 30, 2020 0

By: Sharon Zhang Despite the evidence that the fossil fuel industry in the U.S. is not profitable and basically a giant money pit, President Trump tweeted last Tuesday that he has directed his cabinet to come up with a…
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Why Can’t The Media Visualise Climate Solutions?

Green Queen Team Apr 29, 2020 0

The hunger for images that show new and existing solutions to the climate crisis continues to grow exponentially as our collective awareness deepens. But relevant and engaging imagery is hard, or even impossible, to source. …
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Ocean Plastic Was Choking Chile’s Shores. Now It’s In Patagonia’s Hats

Green Queen Team Apr 27, 2020 0

By: Charis McGowan A startup is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem? In Tumbes, a village in southern Chile, discarded plastic…
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Could Microsoft’s Climate Crisis ‘Moonshot’ Plan Really Work?

Green Queen Team Apr 26, 2020 0

By: Oscar Schwartz The tech giant’s pledge to go carbon negative by 2030 leans heavily on nascent technology such as machines that suck carbon out of the air. Microsoft drew widespread praise in January this year after Brad Smith,…
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5 Things To Know About Climate Change & Coronavirus With WHO Climate Lead

Green Queen Team Apr 26, 2020 0

By: Margaret Brennan & Kelsey Micklas Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and since well before the COVID-19 outbreak, the World Health Organization has been tracing and analyzing the impact of how climate…
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How Financial Markets Can Grow More Climate Savvy

Green Queen Team Apr 26, 2020 0

By: Jenessa Duncombe Take extreme weather risks into account, and markets could prove hardier in a changing world. Energy investors looking to steel themselves against topsy-turvy market transitions could try something new:…
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Why The Climate Movement Is Failing Us: From A Black Woman Schooled In Science Bias

Green Queen Team Apr 25, 2020 0

By: Jasmine C. Leyva Jasmine Leyva, director of The Invisible Vegan, unpacks the complicated relationship between people of color and the climate movement. Math is one of the only subjects I trust because, as much as I hate it,…
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A Look At The Oil Industry’s Favourite Climate Solutions

Green Queen Team Apr 25, 2020 0

By: Justin Mikulka Shell recently announced plans to “stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2050,” a move hailed by some as a major step towards addressing climate change. Around the same time,…
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At Home & School, Young Japanese Still Push To Halt Climate Change

Green Queen Team Apr 24, 2020 0

By: Yoshiyuki Ito The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the postponement of this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26), but it has not prevented young Japanese from continuing their calls for action against global warming. …
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Amid Historic Oil Collapse, An Opportunity To Accelerate Clean Transportation

Green Queen Team Apr 24, 2020 0

By: Dana Drugmand Petroleum products continue to fuel most of our vehicles while fouling our air, leaving some people more vulnerable to suffering severe impacts from respiratory illnesses like COVID-19. Transportation is also…
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Coronavirus Is Pushing More Work Online. Is That Good For The Planet?

Green Queen Team Apr 24, 2020 0

By: Irina Ivanova The millions of Americans who are skipping their morning commute and working from home because of the coronavirus have drastically reduced smog over America's largest cities and otherwise benefited the…
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This Earth Day, Stop The Money Pipeline

Green Queen Team Apr 24, 2020 0

By: Bill McKibben We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies. Nineteen-seventy was a simpler time. (February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.) Simpler…
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