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Green conservatism

Green conservatism: a political position holding that conservation and environmental protection are legitimate goals pursued through conservative, market-based means rather than regulation, associated with Roger Scruton's oikophilia and distinct from far-right ecologism.

Green corridor

Green corridor: a vegetated linear strip connecting fragmented natural or urban green areas, also called ecological corridor or greenway; defined by IUCN/UNEP-WCMC, modeled with least-cost and MSPA/MCR methods, providing conduit, habitat, and urban heat and biodiversity benefits.

Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน)

Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน, kaeng khiao wan, "sweet-green curry") is a central Thai coconut-milk curry built on a paste of fresh green bird's-eye chilies, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, and shrimp paste; spicier than red curry, documented from early twentieth-century Bangkok court recipes.

Green Day

Green Day, American punk rock band from East Bay, California, formed as Sweet Children; trio Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool. Dookie (1994) and American Idiot (2004) took punk mainstream; three Grammys, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Saviors (2024).

Green Day discography

Green Day discography: 14 studio albums by the American punk rock trio, from 39/Smooth (1990) and Dookie (1994) to Saviors (2024), plus live albums, compilations, and the 2026 Nimrods Original Soundtrack.

Green Days by the River

Green Days by the River is a 1967 coming-of-age novel by the Trinidadian writer Michael Anthony, whose fifteen-year-old protagonist, Shell Lammy, grows into adulthood in rural Mayaro, Trinidad.

Green density

Green density is the density of a powder compact after forming but before sintering; in ceramics it typically reaches 50–60% of theoretical, and higher values shorten sintering.

Green Dome (القبة الخضراء)

The Green Dome (القبة الخضراء) is the green dome over the graves of Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and Umar at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, built in 1279.

Green Dot Corporation

Green Dot Corporation is an American fintech company and bank holding company in Austin, Texas, that owns Green Dot Bank and provides prepaid debit cards and banking services.

Green Dragon (loitering munition)

The Green Dragon is a tactical loitering munition developed by Israel Aerospace Industries for small ground units and special operations forces, with up to two hours of loitering time.

Green economy

The green economy, also known as green economics, is an economy that improves well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, as UNEP defines it.

Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham is a 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss in which Sam-I-Am persuades a narrator to try the dish, written with just 50 words.

Green Eggs and Ham (TV series)

Green Eggs and Ham is a Netflix animated series (2019–2022) adapted from Dr. Seuss's 1960 book; created by Jared Stern, hand-drawn by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Adam Devine and Michael Douglas in two seasons.

Green electricity certificate (China)

A green electricity certificate (GEC, 绿证) is China's official electronic certificate for renewable electricity, one per 1,000 kWh, piloted in 2017 and extended to all renewable projects in 2023.

Green Energy Open Access (India)

Green Energy Open Access is an Indian regulatory framework, created by 2022 rules, letting consumers buy renewable power directly from generators instead of distribution licensees.

Green Equity Investors

Green Equity Investors is the flagship large-cap buyout fund family of Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles private equity firm, with Fund VIII raising $12 billion in 2019.

Green Factory (certification)

Green Factory (绿色工厂) certification is a voluntary Chinese government designation for manufacturing plants meeting standards for low energy use and clean production, run by MIIT since 2016.

Green Fish (초록물고기)

Green Fish (초록물고기, Chorok mulgogi) is Lee Chang-dong's 1997 South Korean directorial debut, a crime drama starring Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, and Moon Sung-keun about a discharged soldier drawn into Seoul's gangland; it swept the 1997 Blue Dragon, Grand Bell, and Paeksang awards.

Green flash

The green flash, also called the green ray, is a short-lived green brightening at the upper edge of the Sun at the horizon, usually lasting 1 to 2 seconds.

Green Flexibility

Green Flexibility is a German developer, owner, and operator of grid-scale battery storage systems, founded in Bavaria in 2023 by former executives of the home-storage company sonnen.

Green fluorescence imaging

Green fluorescence imaging is an optical technique using green fluorophores like GFP and fluorescein to report the location and dynamics of labeled biomolecules in living cells.

Green fluorescent protein

Green fluorescent protein (GFP, avGFP), a 238-residue beta-barrel protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria whose Ser65-Tyr66-Gly67 chromophore forms autocatalytically; emits ~505-509 nm green light and is a standard reporter in cell biology.

Green for Danger

Green for Danger: 1944 Christianna Brand whodunit and its 1946 Sidney Gilliat film, in which postman Joseph Higgins dies on an operating table during V-1 raids and Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) investigates seven hospital staff.

Green Frontier

Green Frontier (Frontera Verde) is Netflix's first Colombian original, an 8-episode 2019 supernatural crime miniseries directed by Ciro Guerra, Laura Mora, and Jacques Toulemonde, filmed in Leticia, Amazonas, about a Bogota detective investigating four femicides.

Green GaN laser diode

A green GaN laser diode is an edge-emitting semiconductor laser that emits green light directly at roughly 515 to 535 nm, an alternative to frequency-doubled infrared lasers.

Green Genius

Green Genius, formerly Modus Energy International B.V., is a Lithuanian renewable energy developer and independent power producer that develops solar, wind, biomethane, and battery storage assets across Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Italy.

Green glazed pottery of Atzompa

Green glazed pottery of Atzompa (barro verde) is lead-glazed emerald-green ceramic from Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, made for at least 400 years with greta glaze, two firings, and pastillaje decoration, now adapting to lead-free standards.

Green Goblin

Green Goblin: Marvel Comics supervillain alias, chiefly Norman Osborn, Spider-Man's archenemy, debuting in The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964) by Lee and Ditko; also held by Harry Osborn, with glider, pumpkin bombs, and film roles for Willem Dafoe.

Green Grapes

"Green Grapes" (Cheongpodo) is a 1939 poem by the Korean resistance poet Yi Yuk-sa, first published in the magazine Munjang, that uses ripening grapes as a symbol of national renewal.

Green Grass, Running Water

Green Grass, Running Water is a 1993 novel by Thomas King, set in Blossom, Alberta, blending Blackfoot contemporary life, Coyote, and retold creation stories in a nonlinear narrative.