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Green anarchism
Green anarchism, or eco-anarchism, is a branch of anarchist thought fusing anti-statism with ecology. Its strands include Bookchin's social ecology, Naess's deep ecology, and Zerzan's anarcho-primitivism, which differ on civilization and technology.
Green and Gold
Green and Gold is a 2025 American drama, Anders Lindwall's first theatrical feature, starring Craig T. Nelson as a Wisconsin dairy farmer who bets his foreclosure-threatened farm on the 1993 Green Bay Packers winning the Super Bowl; Madison Lawlor plays granddaughter Jenny, and it was M. Emmet Walsh's final film.
Green armies (Зелёная Армия)
Green armies (Зелёная Армия) were irregular peasant formations in the Russian Civil War (1918–1922). They arose from Red Army deserters protesting grain requisitioning in Siberia and the Caucasus.
Green Arrow
Green Arrow is DC Comics' archer superhero Oliver Queen, created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp in More Fun Comics #73 (1941); a billionaire Justice League member known for trick arrows, social-justice storylines, Black Canary, and the CW series Arrow.
Green Bank Observatory
The Green Bank Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, founded in 1956 and home to the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope.
Green Bank Telescope
The Green Bank Telescope is a 100-meter radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, and the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth, dedicated in 2000.
Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers, NFL franchise founded 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun; only publicly owned NFL team (Green Bay Packers, Inc., 1935), record 13 championships, home Lambeau Field since 1957.
Green Bay Packers, Inc.
Green Bay Packers, Inc. (Green Bay Football Corp.) is the NFL's only publicly owned, nonprofit franchise, community-owned since 1923, with about 539,000 dividend-free shareholders, six stock sales, and a grandfathered exemption from NFL ownership rules.
Green Bay Ventures
Green Bay Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded around 2012 by Dick Kramlich, co-founder of New Enterprise Associates, and Anthony Schiller, backing technology startups.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay, Wisconsin: city at the mouth of the Fox River in Brown County; 2020 population 107,395. Fur-trade and lumber port, home of the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field, economic hub of northeastern Wisconsin.
Green bean
Green bean (snap bean, string bean, haricot vert) is the immature pod of Phaseolus vulgaris, a crop domesticated twice in the Americas. Bush, pole, and half-runner types; 45-60 day harvest; 31 kcal/100 g; lectins destroyed by boiling.
Green bean casserole
Green bean casserole: American Thanksgiving side dish, originally "Green Bean Bake," created 1955 by Dorcas Reilly at Campbell's Camden test kitchen; six ingredients including Cream of Mushroom soup and French-fried onions; served in about 20 million US households each Thanksgiving.
Green belt
Green belt: designated open land around towns and cities protected by planning policy to prevent urban sprawl, most developed in England (1,633,220 hectares, 12.5% of land). Covers NPPF purposes, 1938 Act and 1955 Circular history, grey belt and Golden Rules reforms, and effects on sprawl and housing prices.
Green belt (United Kingdom)
Green belt (UK): designated open land around English cities protected by NPPF chapter 13 to prevent urban sprawl; about 1,633,220 hectares, 12.5% of England, with five purposes, grey belt classification, and Golden Rules for released land.
Green beret
Green beret: the rifle-green wool headgear of U.S. Army Special Forces, worn unofficially from 1953-54 and authorized by President Kennedy in 1961; also the nickname for the soldiers, who specialize in unconventional warfare in 12-man ODAs.
Green bond
A green bond is a fixed-income instrument whose proceeds exclusively finance environmental projects such as renewable energy and clean transportation; amounts outstanding neared $3 trillion in 2024.
Green Bones
Green Bones is a 2024 Filipino prison drama directed by Zig Dulay, starring Dennis Trillo and Ruru Madrid, based on the belief that green bones in remains prove goodness. It won Best Picture at the 50th MMFF and streams on Netflix.
Green Book (film)
Green Book (2018) is Peter Farrelly's Oscar-winning comedy-drama, also called the Don Shirley and Tony Lip film, about a 1962 Jim Crow South concert tour; it won Best Picture, Supporting Actor, and Original Screenplay but drew Shirley family and white savior criticism.
Green Boots
Green Boots is the nickname for a climber's body in a limestone cave at about 8,500 m on Everest's northeast ridge, a landmark since the 1996 disaster; long thought to be Tsewang Paljor, Indian authorities now identify him as Dorje Morup and plan recovery.
Green Border
Green Border (Zielona granica) is Agnieszka Holland's 2023 black-and-white Polish drama, 152 min, about refugees pushed back at the Belarus-Poland border. Special Jury Prize at Venice 2023; denounced by Poland's Law and Justice government before the 2023 election.
Green building
Green building, also known as sustainable building or green construction, is the practice of creating structures that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life cycle.
Green Button
Green Button is an industry-led data standard, launched in 2012, that gives utility customers secure access to their own electricity, natural gas, and water usage data.
Green card
The green card (Form I-551, formerly I-151 and Alien Registration Receipt Card) is the U.S. permanent resident card, rooted in the 1940 Alien Registration Act; roughly 1 million LPRs are admitted yearly.
Green Card (film)
Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy, also called グリーン・カード, directed, written, and produced by Peter Weir. It stars Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell in a marriage-of-convenience plot, won two Golden Globes, and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Green Chair (녹색의자)
Green Chair (녹색의자) is a 2003 South Korean erotic drama directed by Park Chul-soo, starring Suh Jung and Sim Ji-ho, about a divorcee's affair with a 19-year-old student, released June 2005.
Green chemistry
Green chemistry, also known as sustainable chemistry, is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
Green children of Woolpit
The green children of Woolpit are figures of a medieval English legend: a green-skinned boy and girl who appeared in Woolpit, Suffolk, in the mid-twelfth century.
Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund is a multilateral climate fund created in 2010 under the UNFCCC and headquartered in Songdo, South Korea, to fund low-emission, climate-resilient development in developing countries.
Green coffee extract
Green coffee extract, from unroasted Coffea beans, is a weight-loss supplement rich in chlorogenic acids and caffeine; clinical evidence shows only small, poorly supported effects and a retracted key trial.
Green computing
Green computing, also known as Green IT or ICT sustainability, is the effort to reduce computing's environmental impact, spanning data center energy use, manufacturing emissions, water, and e-waste.