- Green Queen Media publishes “The Green Queen Zero Waste Vegan Meal Plan eBook”, the world’s first plant-based recipe book designed with a low waste philosophy.
- The eBook contains 63 whole food vegan recipes, weekly meal plans, shopping lists and zero-waste lifestyle tips authored by Sonalie Figueiras & Mariana de Oliveira Dias.
- Planet-forward plan seeks to inspire anyone embarking on a journey of waste and animal protein reduction in Asia and beyond.
APRIL 2020 – HONG KONG: Green Queen Media, Asia’s award-winning impact media platform and online publication, announces today the launch of The Green Queen Zero Waste Vegan Meal Plan eBook, authored by Green Queen Founder & Editor-in-Chief Sonalie Figueiras and wellness consultant & plant-based nutrition coach Mariana de Oliveira Dias. Launched on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and on World Book Day, it aims to inspire individuals to make planet-friendly food choices with concrete solutions, easy-to-follow recipes and budget-friendly tips.
The Green Queen Zero Waste Vegan Meal Plan eBook contains 63 whole food vegan recipes, weekly meal planners, premade weekly and daily shopping lists, and practical advice to achieve a zero-waste lifestyle with guides for kitchens and bathrooms. It is the first digital product launched by Green Queen Media, Asia’s leading impact media platform and the leading sustainability news publisher in the region. The eBook is also the world’s first 28-day 100% plant-based meal plan guided by a low-waste philosophy.
“We’re so proud to celebrate 50 years of Earth Day with our new planet-forward digital offering and offer the climate-conscious community a way to reset their habits with the first zero-waste vegan meal plan,” said author Sonalie Figueiras, who co-created the recipes with Mariana de Oliveira Dias.
Dias, a Macau-based experienced nutrition coach and vegan chef who also runs a wellness consultancy, added that the mission of the book is to “inspire people to make ethical and conscious choices so together we can make a major difference to our home, our health and our planet.”
Scientists have consistently called for a global shift to plant-based diets to reduce humanity’s impact on the planet amidst the climate and ecological crisis. Animal agriculture drives 18% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, and is responsible for mass biodiversity loss, deforestation, land use and water pollution. Choosing to opt for plant-based meals represents one of the most impactful individual actions that consumers can take to reduce their environmental footprint while improving their health.
While many whole food vegan meal plans and recipe guides have been launched to introduce carbon-friendly cooking to climate-conscious readers, The Green Queen Zero Waste Vegan Meal Plan eBook is the first-ever in the world to combine plant-based meals with a low-waste mindset. Every recipe in the eBook is created with ingredients that can be purchased in bulk, in reusable glass and metal containers, and without single-use plastic packaging.
“I am an avid cook. I read lots of recipe blogs and books, but I am also incredibly passionate about living my low-waste lifestyle. I could never find any meal plans or recipes that had considered a zero-waste grocery shopping philosophy,” explains Figueiras. Reducing plastic packaging is an often overlooked aspect of cutting down emissions on top of landfill waste and ocean pollution, as plastics require fossil fuels to manufacture.
The Green Queen Zero Waste Vegan Meal Plan eBook is also designed specifically for people living in Asia, with its recipes, shopping lists and weekly meal plans embracing Asian cuisines, from Vietnamese bun cha to Indonesian gado gado and Cantonese chao fan. Most English-language vegan recipe books to date tend to be created with North American, British or European recipes.
The Green Queen Zero Waste Vegan Meal Plan eBook is now available as a paper-free PDF digital book online.
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