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Top 3 ASD-Friendly Airports in Asia
Share this article For travelers with special needs, recent improvements in the aviation industry have been greatly encouraging. If you’re planning a trip to Asia and the Middle East, Optism has identified three of the top airports that are recognized for their efforts to accommodate the unique needs of travelers with autism. Changi Airport Singapore's Changi Airport has taken significant steps to support individuals with invisible disabilities, including those on the autism spectrum.
Women & Gender Rights
Browsing Category Alt Dairy Alt Materials Alt Protein Animal Rights Australia Ayurveda Beauty 6 Female Scientists Making the World More Sustainable Scientific research might be considered a male-dominated arena, but it's time to recognise that there are plenty of female pioneers to celebrate. Strong women who identified a niche or subject that was ripe for further exploration have!-->!-->!-->… Read More...
5 Traditional Vegan Treats To Fill Up Your Chinese New Year Candy Box
3 Mins Read The Year of the Rat is quickly approaching, which means it’s time to take out your Chinese candy boxes out from your cupboards and fill them up with delicious goodies. While we are big fans of the tradition, many of the sweet treats that you’ll find aren’t exactly vegan-friendly.
carbon offsets series
The Net-Zero Challenge: Carbon Offsets Need to Stop Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuel emissions. By Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->… Read More...
Does Your Bank Support Fossil Fuels? Make 2024 the Year You Move Your Money
4 Mins Read 2024 might just be the year when more of us can choose wisely when it comes to where we bank. Thanks to a sustainable banking campaign called Bank.Green, people can search whether they are supporting banks that continue to invest in dirty energy despite the climate crisis. The bank-checking tool, which was first launched in 2021, allows users to search up their bank, generating a result on a red-to-green metre.
TiNDLE Chicken Makes Swiss Retail Launch at 440 Coop Stores
4 Mins Read TiNDLE Foods, the Singapore-headquartered global vegan meat brand, has made its way to Switzerland. Launching exclusively on the shelves of supermarket chain Coop, shoppers in the country will now be able to purchase the brand’s range of plant-based chicken products at 440 stores nationwide, as well as via the retailer’s online platform. A number of the brand’s fan favourites will be found on shelves, including TiNDLE Burgers, Crispy Fillets, Nuggets, and Wings.
Mush Foods Debuts ‘50Cut’ Mushroom Blends for US Foodservice Amidst $6.2M Seed Round
5 Mins Read Mush Foods, the startup behind a mycelium ingredient designed for ‘hybrid’ alternative meat products, is launching a line of mushroom root blends for US restaurants after debuting its ‘meat-plus’ range in Israel. The new range, dubbed 50Cut, is aimed at improving the sustainability, nutrition and flavour of dishes that contain ground beef, poultry and fish. Unlike many other plant-based food techs, Mush Foods is offering a blended solution.
Plant-Based Pill Twice As Effective in Helping Smokers Quit Cigarettes
3 Mins Read Yes, you read that right. Plant-based could be the superior option, not just in terms of our diets, but as a smoking cessation aid. Derived from plants, cytisine is a natural alkaloid compound found in the seeds of the golden rain tree, and doctors now say it can be twice as effective in breaking one’s smoking addiction. This medicine has already been in use in central and eastern Europe, as well as in Asia, but is not yet widely available around the world.
Eat Your Mouth Off: WK Kellogg's Debuts Sheep Lanolin-Free Breakfast Cereal
3 Mins Read Eat Your Mouth Off, a new brand by US food giant WK Kellogg Co, is a plant-based, sugar-free and protein-packed cereal. Coming in two flavours, the brand’s launch comes as the company behind cereal staples like Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies makes a pivot towards health-conscious younger consumers.
Climate Tech Funding Drops 30% in 2023, Despite Overall Positive Post-Covid Trend
6 Mins Read A new report summarising the key investment trends in the climate tech industry has revealed a 30% year-on-year drop in funding in 2023. Overall, climate tech venture and growth investment reached just $32 billion, marking the first annual decline in the post-pandemic era. Describing the market as having “hit pause” in the last year, analysts say the sector has now evolved into one “more focused on large-scale deployments that approach being bankable and boring”.
Animal-Free Dairy Pioneer Perfect Day Raises Up to $90M & Brings On New Exec Team to Pursue Profitability
5 Mins Read As first reported by AFN, Californian precision fermentation Perfect Day says it has just laid out its new profitability pathway plans and secured a new round of pre-series E financing worth up to $90 million. In addition, the company is bringing on a new executive team with current president TM Narayan named as interim CEO while a search for a permanent candidate is carried out.
Human Evolution Must Adapt to Save Earth & Save Ourselves, Scientists Say
4 Mins Read In a new analysis, scientists at the University of Maine highlighted the urgent need for human evolution to change direction to prevent climate disaster. Over the years, humans have survived and evolved by extracting resources from the planet and “dominate the biosphere” but these cultural features “may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change”.
Could Plant-Based Diets Curb Air Pollution? New Data Says Yes.
3 Mins Read There’s yet another reason to switch to a plant-based diet. This time, researchers have found that dietary change would lead to a major cut in ambient air pollution, which leads to a myriad of positive health and economic outcomes. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, revealed that shifting our current diets to plant-based diets would prevent up to 236,000 premature deaths associated with poor air quality.
Fail Fast, Fail Often: Beyond Meat's Ethan Brown on Leadership
5 Mins Read It’s no secret that Beyond Meat has had a difficult year or two. Since its IPO success back in 2019, the brand, as with much of the wider plant-based industry, has faced challenges in keeping sales and revenue up. In 2023, the company went through what could have been its rockiest yet, with year-on-year sales slipping yet again to force job cuts that affected 8% of its staff. That’s after it already laid off 200 employees the prior year.
Mushrooms as a Main: 7 Vegan Brands Having Fun with Fungi
6 Mins Read When it comes to the top food trends to watch out for in 2024, almost every list mentions mushrooms. With its incredible textural properties as well as nutritional benefits, it’s no surprise that mushrooms are the powerhouse ingredient in many of the latest plant-based meat analogues.
Plant-Based Diet Rich in Fats & Protein Shows Promise as ‘Nature’s Ozempic’
3 Mins Read Last year saw the astronomical rise of drugs like Ozempic, a medication originally prescribed to treat diabetes, but which was found to have significant weight-loss properties. The main active ingredient that appears to prevent weight gain or even induce major weight loss, semaglutide, works by mimicking the GLP-1 hormone, thereby reducing insulin resistance, prolonging the feeling of fullness and curbing appetite.
ozempic series - Green Queen
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Pets Make Us Smarter, Myth of 'Girl' Push-Ups & Entering the Cultivated Meat Era
As always, it has been a crazy news cycle, from the imploded Titan sub to Boris Johnson’s never-ending political saga. But here’s 3 stories you might have missed and are definitely worth a read for your Brain, Body & Belly. People with pet animals score far better than their pet-less counterparts in a new study from the University of Michigan. It’s been dubbed the ‘pet effect’, which describes how those who have owned a pet for more than 5 years display better short- and long-term memory for words.
Vegan Travel Guides
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Vegan Grocery Shopping
Browsing Category Alt Dairy Alt Materials Alt Protein Animal Rights Australia Ayurveda Beauty Ferrero to Finally Launch Vegan Nutella in Europe This Autumn As the famed hazelnut spread turns 60, confectionery giant Ferrero will introduce a vegan version of Nutella in Europe later this year. In the TV show How I Met Your Mother, there's an episode where all the main characters contend with!-->!-->!-->… Read More...
Defeating Stress, Why BMI is Flawed & Keto vs. Vegan
Kicking off the first edition of the Brain, Body & Belly Newsletter with a bang. Each story has the power to change how you go about your daily life. From the way you manage workload to whether your diet is destroying the planet (and your health, too). You know those moments when all you’re having is stress, perhaps with a side of anxiety too? It’s time to bring breathwork into your daily mental health routine.
Introducing Brain, Body & Belly
Most of us are short on time. It’s why I created this newsletter. The idea popped into my head during a conversation with my husband about why ‘people just don’t read anymore’. He argued that the future lies in curated content, providing straight-to-the-point snippets of lengthier features. As an avid writer and reader, it took me a while to accept that he might have a point. That being said, I don’t believe he’s fully right.
Greenwashing: A Guide To Spotting All Kinds of Green Sheen From Greencrowding to Greenhushing
5 Mins Read From greenlabelling to greenlighting: here’s a guide to greenwashing vocabulary in all its shapes and forms, as well as examples to help you spot them. So you’ve heard of greenwashing. But there’s a whole host of ways companies are making dubious claims about their sustainability credentials, ranging from slight exaggerations to downright fake news.
90% of US Shoppers Care About Food Brands’ Sustainability: Report
5 Mins Read An overwhelming majority of consumers in the US now believe that food businesses need to prioritise social and environmental responsibility. So says a new report based on polling data from over 33,000 American food and grocery shoppers last year. Results showed that an increasing number of people are switching to brands due to perceived sustainability benefits.
5 Books To Kickstart Your Zero-Waste Lifestyle Journey
4 Mins Read Are you ready to make the move to becoming more zero-waste? These books can help. Faced with our overflowing landfills, the global plastic ocean pollution crisis, and our ecological emergency, it’s more important than ever to make impactful changes to our daily lives. If you’re in need of some motivation and guidance in your low-waste journey, we’ve pulled together the must-read books on making the shift to a zero-waste lifestyle. 1.
As China Reopens Ahead of Lunar New Year, Carbon-Intensive Meat Demand Set to Surge
5 Mins Read With China’s U-turn on its “zero-Covid” policy and the Lunar New Year just around the corner, a boom in carbon-intensive meat consumption is highly likely. For the rest of the world, 2022 was marked by a return to the pre-pandemic “normal”. But China, unlike the rest of the world, pushed on with its inward “zero-Covid” policy, which many saw as a negative sign of Chinese demand for global goods.
Sustainability Messaging on Menus Promote Plant-Based Food Choices, Multiple Studies Agree
6 Mins Read Multiple studies from around the world agree: sustainability messaging on menus is successful in getting more diners to order plant-based meals. Scientists have warned that global meat and dairy intake must fall if we are to combat the climate crisis, but facilitating this widespread shift in dietary patterns remains a huge hurdle.
The 10 Most Supportive Countries
8 Mins Read When it comes to cultivated meat, these ten governments are the most active in terms of funding, regulatory frameworks and research resources. Cultivated meat is one of the key food solutions in our climate crisis-fighting arsenal. There are now over 100 startups globally working on this technology and 2022 saw some huge strides in the sector, from the largest funding round ever recorded to key product firsts.
2022 Review: Top 10 Cultivated Protein Stories of The Year
5 Mins Read It’s been a whirlwind year for the alternative protein industry. That’s why we’re taking a look back on some of the biggest headlines of 2022, spanning across the globe. Here, we review what the cultivated meat sector brought to the table, from major funding milestones to product launches. 1. Upside Foods earns GRAS status California-based cell-based chicken maker Upside Foods received the milestone GRAS status from the FDA this year.
2022 Review: Top 10 Precision Fermentation Stories of The Year
6 Mins Read As we wrap up 2022, let’s take a look back over some of the breaking headlines that solidified precision fermentation as a major pillar in the world of alternative protein. Here are some of the top stories within the space, from animal-free milk landing in Singapore to mark an Asia-wide first, to getting vocal support from renowned environmental journalist George Monboit. 1.
2022 Review: Top 10 Plant-Based Stories Of The Year
8 Mins Read We dive into some of the headlines that topped plant-based alternative protein space, from vegan labelling wars to never-seen-before product launches. Here’s what the plant-based sector brought for us in 2022. 1. Plant-based milk sales top $2.3 billion Vegan milk sales in the U.S. reached new highs (yet again) this year, growing 6.4% to almost $2.3 billion in June.
10 Ways To Deal With Eco-Anxiety Over The Holidays
5 Mins Read Holiday stress can exacerbate other stress, like eco-anxiety. But there are some helpful ways you can ease your eco-anxiety this festive season. With so much news uncovering the severity of our ecological crisis, eco-anxiety, a psychological disorder involving ‘intense worry and a state of heightened anxiety about the environmental crisis’, is becoming more and more prevalent.
Zero Waste Holidays: 10 Decorative Christmas Plants That Last All Year Round
5 Mins Read We all love to decorate our homes with festive plants during the holiday season, but most of the time, their time in the spotlight ends pretty quickly and they up being tossed out once the new year rolls in. This year, why not give your indoor plant decorations life beyond the holidays? Here are 10 beautiful plants to deck your home for some Christmas cheer that can be kept all year round. 1. Poinsettias Poinsettias are of course the most popular Christmas houseplant.
How To Convince Your Loved Ones To Quit Eating Meat
4 Mins Read You’re vegan, but your partner or family members aren’t on board. I managed to convince those closest to me to give up meat thanks to certain behavioral nudges. Here’s what worked. It’s not easy being the only vegan in a relationship, around your family, or in a group of friends. From social gatherings to traveling, you might feel a little left out at certain times, or even frustrated that those around you don’t see eye to eye when it comes to eating plant-based. That was me.
5 Vegan Food Favorites Loved By World Cup Football Players
4 Mins Read Like many professional athletes, football players are turning to plant power to stay in top form. With the FIFA 2022 World Cup upon us, we dish out some of the vegan food staples fuelling the tournament’s star players, from Lionel Messi to Gareth Bale. It’s worth mentioning that there are plenty of other footballers who are not playing at the FIFA 2022 World Cup but who also opt for plant-based foods to stay on top of their game.
5 Traditional Chinese Recipes My Mum Made Vegan (& They Taste Better Now)
5 Mins Read Growing up in a Cantonese home, dishes were always shared at mealtimes. When I went vegan, my mum turned our family favourites plant-based so I would never have to miss out. And honestly, even the omnivores at home say they taste better now. In Chinese food culture, meals are always meant to be shared. Every evening, my family would sit together and enjoy the various dishes in the centre of our round dining table.
I Grew My Own Produce in Hong Kong. Here’s What I Learned From Urban Farming. 
5 Mins Read As a vegan and sustainable food advocate, growing my own organic produce had always been something I wanted to do. I never thought it was possible right here in Hong Kong, a city famous for its skyscrapers, bright lights and bustling traffic. But it is. Here’s what I learned during my urban farming journey. 1. Farming in the city is possible I made endless excuses to not fulfil my farm-to-table dream.
The 7 Best Plant-Based Sources For Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for health and wellbeing. Many people believe that omega-3s can only be found in non-plant-based sources such as fatty fish. However, there are many plant-based foods that do contain omega-3s, and crucially, fish contain omega-3s because they eat plankton and algae. There are three main types of omega-3s: ALA (alpha-linolenic…. The post The 7 Best Plant-Based Sources For Omega-3 Fatty Acids appeared first on Green Queen. Green Queen –
5 Foods You Eat Everyday Could Disappear Because Of Climate Change, From Coffee To Potatoes
Climate events will not just be felt through more frequent natural disasters and extreme temperatures, but they will soon have a daily impact on our lives in the way of food. Believe it or not, we may no longer be able to enjoy many of our favourite foods in the next few years due to……. The post 5 Foods You Eat Everyday Could Disappear Because Of Climate Change, From Coffee To Potatoes appeared first on Green Queen. Green Queen –
4 Online Courses for a Better Planet: From Sustainability to Plant-Based Nutrition
3 Mins Read Our world is facing many challenges, from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to climate change. But scientists and experts agree that our social, environmental and health issues are all interrelated, and it is now more important than ever before that we need to prioritise sustainability in our approach to make the world a better, kinder and greener place.
Can These 6 Marine Tech Startups Help Solve The Many Issues Facing Our Oceans?
4 Mins Read Some of the most exciting young “ocean innovators” accepted into UpLink, the open digital platform launched by the World Economic Forum (WEF), are working toward sustainable progress in ocean conservation.
8 Animal Ingredients Common In Natural Beauty Products
Contrary to popular belief, not all natural beauty products are vegan-friendly. Just because they don’t contain synthetics doesn’t mean they don’t use animal-derived ingredients, which is considered “natural”. Here are some ingredients that are commonly found in everything from make-up to facial creams that are actually derived from animal sources and are not suitable for…. The post 8 Animal Ingredients Common In Natural Beauty Products appeared first on Green Queen. Green Queen – Read More
3 Italian Eco Entrepreneurs Changing The Future Of Fashion You Need To Know
Italy has long been synonymous with luxury fashion and globally-recognised design talent. A new crop of Italian entrepreneurs are changing the discourse on what it means to create a fashion company in today’s global markets, where sustainability has become a key consideration. The fashion industry is reckoning with itself and sustainability has become the mot…. The post 3 Italian Eco Entrepreneurs Changing The Future Of Fashion You Need To Know appeared first on Green Queen. Green Queen – Read More
3 Italian Eco Entrepreneurs Changing The Future Of Fashion You Need To Know
3 Mins Read Italy has long been synonymous with luxury fashion and globally-recognised design talent. A new crop of Italian entrepreneurs are changing the discourse on what it means to create a fashion company in today’s global markets, where sustainability has become a key consideration.
These 10 Startups Will Change How We Grow and Eat Food
These food startups selected as finalists in Thought For Food’s 2021 Challenge are set to sustainably change the way we grow and eat food. The post These 10 Startups Will Change How We Grow and Eat Food appeared first on Green Queen.
What Are Lupin Beans? Meet The Superfood Transforming Vegan Food, From Milk to Meat
What are lupin beans? Meet the legume creating sustainable vegan meat and milk to uses as novel ingredients and nutrition-packed snacks. The post What Are Lupin Beans? Meet The Superfood Transforming Vegan Food, From Milk to Meat appeared first on Green Queen.
7 Big Signals That Prove The End Of Fossil Fuels Is On The Horizon
For years, climate scientists and environmental activists have been calling for the end of fossil fuels as the number one thing that must happen if we are to save the planet. They have fought tooth and nail to push back against the dirty energy industry’s billion-dollar efforts to spread disinformation and sow public doubt over…. The post 7 Big Signals That Prove The End Of Fossil Fuels Is On The Horizon appeared first on Green Queen. Green Queen –
Food Footprint: Which Diet Creates The Least Amount Of Food Waste?
The climate crisis is rising to the top of the global agenda, waking more people up to the connection between our consumption choices and the carbon footprint it leaves behind. While some questions about the footprint of food can appear to be relatively straightforward, the reality may not always be as simple as it seems. The post Food Footprint: Which Diet Creates The Least Amount Of Food Waste? appeared first on Green Queen. Green Queen –
A New Generation Of Alt Cheese Startups Are Ditching Allergens: Meet 5 Global Nut-Free Innovators
4 Mins Read The dairy-free cheese alternative market is huge and it’s growing fast. Analysts expect the global plant-based cheese segment to double from its current US$2.7 billion to over US$4.5 billion by 2025, and with as many as 4 in 10 consumers worldwide now flexitarians, even big food corporations like Bel Brands to Danone jumping to launch their own animal-free cheeses.
Meet These 7 Food Techs Making Pig-Free Bacon A Reality
5 Mins Read When it comes to the foods that plant-based folk miss, bacon never fails to make it on the list. Let’s face it: who doesn’t love bacon? From topping maple syrup-covered pancakes, to making the perfect breakfast fry-up and simply being the irreplaceable B in the classic B.L.T. sandwich, it’s pretty much a consensus that we’re not going to be able to convince a meat-lover to ditch meat without innovating a delicious animal-free alternative that can truly rival bacon.
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