Green

Green primarily refers to the color green. It is also used, as a single term, to refer to many different people, places and things, some of which are listed below.

Land

• In England a village green was common land at the centre of a community. The term green is still widely used today to describe an open piece of land at the centre of a village, or of the towns that have grown up around those villages.

People

• For a list of people with the name Green, see Green (name). For those named Greene, see Greene.

Politics and environmentalism

• Green is an abbreviation for some green political parties.
• Green movement, the collection of philosophies and activities that broadly support these ideas
• Green politics
• Green, used to describe practices or buildings that are environmentally sound

More specifically:

• Green anarchism, a type of anarchism that focuses on the environment
• Green ban, strike action taken for environmental reasons
• Green belt, undeveloped land surrounding a city
• Green building
• Green chemistry, a term referring to not being toxic or environmentally damaging
• Green computing, the study and practice of good computer resource management
• Green design, an alternate term for sustainable design
• Green energy
• Green highway
• Green syndicalism, a type of workers' organisation
• Green technology, an alternate term for environmental technology
• Green vehicle

Music

• Green Day, an American punk rock band
• Green (Raycharles LaMontagne album), a 2002 demo album by Raycharles LaMontagne
• Green (album), a 1988 music album by R.E.M.
• Green (band), a Chicago powerpop band active since the mid-1980s
• Green (B'z album)
• Green Gartside, founder, producer, and lead vocalist for the dance band Scritti Politti
• "Green And Gray", a song by progressive acoustic band Nickel Creek, featured on their 2002 album This Side.
• "Bein' Green", a popular song originally written by Joe Raposo in 1970 for the children's TV show Sesame Street where it was performed by Kermit the Frog (voice of Jim Henson).
• "Green" (Raven song), a song by Raven-Symoné on the album That Got it Girl
• "The Color Green", a song by Rich Mullins on the album A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band

Fictional characters

• The Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero
• The Green Arrow, another DC Comics superhero
• The Jolly Green Giant, a symbol of the Green Giant food company of the United States
• Green (Gunstar Heroes), a character in the video game Gunstar Heroes
• Green (Pokémon character), a main character in Pokémon Adventures
• Mr. Green or Reverend Green, a character in the board game Cluedo (Clue in North America)

Other

• Green, denoting the extent to which an environment or landscape is covered with plants and vegetation (e.g. "Although parts of Hong Kong are densely populated, it is also one of the most green cities in Asia").
• Green, the name given to the substance created by a failed attempt by the character Lord Percy Percy to produce gold using alchemy in an episode of the British comedy series Blackadder II
• Green, used as slang for "inexperienced"
• Green, used as slang for money (commonly for the American dollar bill because of its color)
• Green, used as slang for "horny"
• Green, a slang term for cannabis (drug)
• Green Day, a slang term for a recreative day spent with friends smoking cannabis (drug)
• Green, used in the past as a derogatory term for an individual of Irish descent (see Irish people and Irish diaspora)
• Green, in ceramics, referring to clay when it has achieved a state of 'leather hardness' and is still workable, but not bendable
• Green Hell, used to describe one of the world's most challenging race tracks, Nordschleife

See also

• Grün, Gruen
• Grin
• Greene
• Greenville, Greeneville
• Greenfield (disambiguation)
• Greenspan
• Greenberg
• Greenwood
• H. L. Green, formerly a chain of stores

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