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Green Lung

Green Lung is a London-based occult doom and stoner metal five-piece formed in 2017, whose albums include Woodland Rites, This Heathen Land, and Necropolitan (2026).

Green Man

The Green Man, or foliate head, is a motif of a human face made of or disgorging foliage, common in European church sculpture from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries.

Green manure

Green manure: crops grown to be tilled into soil while green to add organic matter and nitrogen, especially legumes like clover and vetch; ancient practice, revived as a fertilizer-saving, leaching-reducing alternative.

Green March

The Green March (المسيرة الخضراء) was a mass demonstration on 6 November 1975, when about 350,000 Moroccan volunteers crossed into Spanish-ruled Western Sahara to press Morocco's claim.

Green Mark (building certification)

Green Mark is Singapore's green building rating system, launched by the Building and Construction Authority in January 2005 and the first green building rating system designed for the tropical climate.

Green marketing

Green marketing is the strategic integration of environmental considerations across the full marketing mix, from product design to green retail channels, and is distinct from greenwashing, its misleading counterpart.

Green Monster

The Green Monster is the 37-foot-2-inch left field wall at Fenway Park, Boston, built in 1912 to block free views from Lansdowne Street, rebuilt in concrete in 1934, and painted green in 1947.

Green Mountain Boys

Green Mountain Boys: militia organized around 1770 in the New Hampshire Grants (present-day Vermont) under Ethan Allen to resist New York land claims; captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 and became the symbol of Vermont's founding.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is an American specialty coffee company founded in Waitsfield, Vermont, in 1981, which grew through the K-Cup system into Keurig Dr Pepper.

Green New Deal

The Green New Deal is a family of policy proposals combining deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions with job creation, best known from a 2019 US congressional resolution.

Green Night

Green Night (Yeşil Gece) is a 1928 novel by Turkish novelist Reşat Nuri Güntekin about a reformist teacher fighting reactionary forces in an Aegean town.

Green Onions

"Green Onions" (1962) is a twelve-bar blues instrumental by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, recorded at Stax in Memphis and first issued as the B-side of "Behave Yourself." It topped the U.S. R&B chart for four weeks, hit No. 3 on the Hot 100, and became Stax's first chart-topping hit.

Green papaya salad

Green papaya salad (som tam, Lao tam som/tam maak hoong, Khmer bok l'hong, Vietnamese gỏi đu đủ) is a pounded salad of shredded unripe papaya with chilies, lime, fish sauce, and fermented seasonings, of Lao origin and central to Isan and Lao cuisine, with Thai, Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese variants.

Green party

Green parties: a party family defined by environmentalism plus grassroots democracy, social justice, and non-violence; from New Zealand's 1972 Values Party and Germany's Die Grünen (1980) to Global Greens affiliates worldwide.

Green Party (Ireland)

The Green Party (An Comhaontas Glas) is Ireland's environmentalist party, founded 3 December 1981 as the Ecology Party of Ireland; it governed 2007–2011 and 2020–2025 and now holds 1 TD.

Green Party (Norway)

Miljøpartiet De Grønne (MDG), the Norwegian Green Party, founded 1988, block-independent, in the Storting since 2013; won 4.7% and 8 seats in 2025, first time over the 4% threshold.

Green Party (UK)

Green Party (UK): the Green Party of England and Wales, founded 1973 as PEOPLE, Ecology Party from 1975. Four MPs since 2024, led by Zack Polanski since September 2025, record 1,357 councillors after May 2026.

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (Te Pāti Kākāriki), left-wing NZ party founded 1990, registered 1995, co-led by Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick; 7.9% and 10 seats in 2020, 12% in 2023, contesting 2026 election.

Green Party of Canada

The Green Party of Canada (Parti vert du Canada) is a federal political party founded in 1983, led by Elizabeth May, the first elected Green member of Parliament.

Green Party of England and Wales

Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW), distinct from the Scottish and Northern Ireland Green parties; green party led by Zack Polanski since September 2025; four MPs and record 6.7% vote share in 2024, strongest-ever 2026 local election results.

Green Party of the United States

The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is an independent left-green party formed in the mid-1990s from state Green Parties, known for the Four Pillars, Ten Key Values, Ralph Nader's 1996 and 2000 runs, Jill Stein's campaigns, and ballot-access struggles.

Green pea galaxy

A green pea galaxy is a small, compact star-forming galaxy that appears bright green in Sloan Digital Sky Survey images, first found by Galaxy Zoo volunteers in 2007.

Green peafowl

The green peafowl (Pavo muticus) is a large, endangered pheasant native to the forests of tropical Southeast Asia, larger than the Indian peafowl and showing only slight sexual dimorphism.

Green Plains Inc.

Green Plains Inc. is an American renewable fuels and agricultural technology company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 2004, it produces ethanol, animal feed, and renewable corn oil from corn.

Green politics

Green politics: ideology and movement combining ecological limits, social justice, grassroots democracy, and non-violence; rooted in 1970s new social movements, embodied in green parties such as Germany's Greens, in government 1998-2005 and 2021-2024.

Green Ramp disaster

The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 aviation accident at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, in which a fire killed 24 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.

Green Revolution

Green Revolution: mid-20th-century spread of high-yielding dwarf wheat and rice varieties with fertilizers and irrigation, led by Norman Borlaug and CIMMYT, transforming food production in Mexico, India, and Pakistan.

Green Revolution in India

Green Revolution in India: 1960s transformation of agriculture via HYV seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation, launched 1965 under M.S. Swaminathan with Borlaug's wheats, centered on Punjab and Haryana, achieving food self-sufficiency with environmental costs.

Green Revolution in Indonesia

The Green Revolution in Indonesia, or Revolusi Hijau, was the state-led intensification of rice farming from the late 1960s through the 1980s, using high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation to reach rice self-sufficiency in 1984.

Green River (album)

Green River (album): Creedence Clearwater Revival's third studio album, released August 3, 1969 on Fantasy; first US number-one CCR album with Bad Moon Rising, Lodi, and the title track.