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AsiaGlobal Fellow 2025, 2021 Women of Power, 2019 GEN T Honouree, V Label Global Hero, and two-time TEDx Speaker: serial social entrepreneur and trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is a sustainability expert, food futurist, and eco-powerhouse who has been inspiring international audiences for over a decade with practical steps to combat climate change. Known globally as the Green Queen, she is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Green Queen, the original impact media platform that educates millions about the link between food technology and climate change. She is also the co-founder and CEO of organic sourcing platform Ekowarehouse and climate tech SaaS Source Green. Additionally, Sonalie is a global keynote speaker, an advisor to multiple mission-driven startups and NGOs, and a venture partner and advisor to several venture capital funds.

Alt Protein

Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness Steps Down, Executive Team to Lead Operations

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 31, 2026
Plant-based meat leader Impossible Foods has that CEO Peter McGuinness is stepping down after nearly four years, with the company’s executive team set to take over day-to-day operations. Impossible Foods announced that Chief Executive…
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Alt Protein

Planetary Announces India Fermentation Licensing Deal For Cheaper Blended Meat

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 28, 2026
Planetary's new strategic partnership in India could take its decentralized fermentation model global, opening the door to cheaper blended meat and nutritionally superior dairy alternatives.​ Switzerland-based Planetary has signed a…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Kiki 4 Kids at Walmart, Cell4Food x AlgoCell & UK Veganuary Record

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 28, 2026
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers organic plant-based kids' milk at Walmart, cellular aquaculture AI partnerships, a UK Veganuary record, and US foodservice…
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Cell-Based News

Is MrBeast’s Cultivated Chicken Tasting Alt Protein’s Cultural Breakout Moment?

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 26, 2026
The world’s most followed influencer just tasted chicken made from cells on camera, giving cultivated meat the kind of "MrBeast moment” that could reshape how millions of young consumers think about the future of protein. In a…
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Future Foods

Green Queen’s 2026 Future Food Trends: Hybrid Everything, Longevity, GLP-1, Women’s Wellness, Kids’ Nutrition & More

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 15, 2026
At the forefront of the global future food ecosystem, Green Queen founding editor Sonalie Figueiras sets out the most important trends to watch every year. Here are her predictions for 2026. As the Green Queen editor-in-chief, part of…
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Funding News

Industry Consolidation: 40+ Major Alternative Protein Companies Have Shut or Been Acquired in Past Year

Anay Mridul Sep 4, 2025
The previous 12 months have seen a sharp increase in the number of alternative protein businesses that have ceased trading, come close to the brink, or been acquired. Here are all the major deals, starting September 2024. The…
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Climate Change

Are We Eating The Earth? An Interview with Award-Winning Author Michael Grunwald About His Groundbreaking New Book

Sonalie Figueiras Jun 20, 2025
An interview with the author of a new book that exposes how flawed land-use math is derailing climate progress and argues that even eliminating fossil fuels won’t save us unless we fix food production’s massive emissions. We Are Eating…
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Climate Change

How Do You Parent in a Climate Crisis? Bridget Shirvell Has Some Ideas

Sonalie Figueiras Feb 18, 2025
Bridget Shirvell, author of Parenting in A Climate Crisis – which grew out of her eponymous newsletter – talks raising eco-conscious children, making the food-climate connection, and the importance of going outside. SF: How did you end…
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Future Foods

RFK Jr Confirmation: Food Tech Winners & Losers

Anay Mridul Feb 14, 2025
Donald Trump's pick for Health & Human Services Secretary has been confirmed. From cultivated meat to methane vaccines, how will food tech fare over the next four years? It took a while, but Donald Trump got his man. Robert F…
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Funding News

Food & Climate Tech Funding: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities

Anay Mridul Feb 11, 2025
Food and climate tech investors remained cautious with their cash in 2024, as funding for alternative protein dipped, investments failed to align with emissions impact, and women founders were sidelined yet again. The venture sector is…
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Alt Dairy

Our 2025 Future Food Trends are Here: Climate Commodities, Infant Nutrition, Disruptive Pet Food, Personalised Gut Health & More

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 8, 2025
A tech investor asked me what the bright areas in food tech are, and here's what I said. This will be my fifth set of food tech predictions. I started in 2021 with alternative proteins, then went broader. Here’s 2024’s list, and 2023…
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Climate Change

COP29 Digest, Vol 1: Everything You Need to Know in Food and Climate News Today

Anay Mridul Nov 12, 2024
Welcome to #COP29 – watch the opening ceremony here. In our Green Queen COP29 Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. It’s…
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Future Foods

Q+A w/ ADM’s Ana Yaluff: ‘Sustainability Is The Foundation Of Our Purpose As A Company’

Sonalie Figueiras Nov 11, 2024
The company's Director of Sustainability talks to Green Queen about working towards a more sustainable food and ag value chain in Asia Pacific. Earlier this year, ADM, a global leader in innovative solutions…
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Funding News

Blue Horizon: Why The Food Tech Investor Gave Up Fund Management To Build a Giga Protein Factory in The Desert

Anay Mridul Oct 14, 2024
Leading future food industry investor Blue Horizon is pivoting from fund management to manufacturing, starting with a Giga Protein Factory in the Arabian desert. Here's why. Just over a year ago, alternative protein fund leader Blue…
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Alt Protein

French Cultivated Foie Gras Maker Gourmey Files for Regulatory Approval in EU

Anay Mridul Jul 26, 2024
French cultivated foie gras startup Gourmey has become the first cultivated meat company to apply for regulatory approval in the EU, with dossiers also filed in four other markets. Gourmey has applied for regulatory approval of its…
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Zero Waste

CHOMP & TMS Founders Carla Martinesi & Krystal Lai on Tackling Food Waste in Hong Kong

Sonalie Figueiras May 22, 2024
Two food waste warriors let us in on their efforts to turn surplus food into a sustainable dining experience in a city that throws out over a million tonnes of food each year. Hong Kong may be known as Asia's World City, a melting pot…
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Alt Protein

Singaporean Cultivated Seafood Startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats Announce Merger

Anay Mridul Mar 12, 2024
In a major shift in the cultivated seafood space, Singaporean startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats have announced plans to merge. Once finalised, Umami Bioworks CEO Mihir Pershad will lead the combined entity, and Shiok Meats CEO…
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Future Foods

The Power Plate: Why Women Should Lead Food Industry Disruption – My Ask for IWD 2024

Sonalie Figueiras Mar 8, 2024
In her OpEd for International Women's Day, Green Queen's founding editor Sonalie Figueiras has an ask: If we're going to disrupt food systems, let's make sure women are in charge. Women control most household food purchasing decisions…
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Health

Supergut’s Marc Washington is Meeting The Moment: ‘We’re Very Much Here for the Ozempic Era’

Anay Mridul Feb 14, 2024
Marc Washington, CEO of superfood brand Supergut, speaks to Green Queen about riding the Ozempic wave, the importance of prebiotic fibre, boosting GLP-1, and formulating plant-based products. For Marc Washington, it was a…
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Alt Dairy

Nestlé Debuts Orgain Better Whey, Its First Animal-Free Protein Powder

Sonalie Figueiras Feb 11, 2024
Swiss multinational Nestlé SA has debuted its first precision fermentation dairy protein powder, an animal-free and lactose-free whey isolate product dubbed Better Whey under the Orgain brand, which it acquired a majority stake in back in…
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Alt Protein

Opinion: Future Food Tech Funding Needs A Complete Overhaul

Sonalie Figueiras Jan 29, 2024
Funding future food innovations is crucial. As traditional VCs look elsewhere, it's for the sector to welcome new and diverse sources of investment, from blended capital to redeemable equity. By Sonalie Figueiras, founding editor at…
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