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Green flash Green flashes and green rays are rare optical phenomena that occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise, when a green spot is visible for a short period of time above the sun, or a green ray shoots up from the sunset point. It is usually observed from a low altitude where there is an unobstructed view of the horizon, such as on the ocean.
Green fluorescent protein The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein, comprised of 238 amino acids, from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. This process takes place when the protein aequorin, also produced by A.
Green for Danger Green for Danger is a popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting. It was made into a 1946 film which is regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel.
Green function In mathematics, a Green function (or Green's function) is a type of function used to solve inhomogeneous differential equations subject to boundary conditions. The term is used in physics, specifically in quantum field theory and statistical field theory, to refer to various types of correlation functions, even those that do not fit the mathematical definition; for this sense, see Correlation function (quantum field theory) and Green's function (many-body theory).
Green Fireballs A number of sightings described as "Green Fireballs" were reported in the skies of the southwestern United States, particularly New Mexico, beginning in late 1948. Such sightings worried some in the government, who noted that the reports were often made near to sensitive research and military installations, such as Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratory (then Sandia base)(Ruppelt, Chap.
Green goddess dressing Green goddess is a salad dressing, typically containing mayonnaise, sour cream, parsley, chives, anchovy, tarragon, lemon juice, and pepper. Before the advent of ranch dressing, green goddess was possibly one of the most popular salad dressings in the West Coast of the United States.
Green gold catfish The green gold catfish, Corydoras melanotaenia, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Meta River basin in Colombia.
Green Gables Croquet Club The Green Gables Croquet Club of Spring Lake, New Jersey was founded in 1957 by Suzie Linden (1913-1996). It is the oldest continuous croquet club in the United States and among the three founding members of the U.
Green Gang The Green Gang (éť’ĺą«, QÄ«ng BÄng) was a criminal organization operating in Shanghai in the early 20th century. This gang was a secret society established originally started by Fong Toh Tak of the Shaolin temple, and by the 20th century, included many successful businessmen.
Green Gas Green Gas is the propellant typically used to drive Gas Blow Back Airsoft guns, consisting of propane with small amounts of silicone oil added. Some brands may advertise their product as Green Gas, or refer to it as "Ultra Green Gas", "Xtreme Green Gas" or similar, when in fact the propellant is not Green Gas/propane.
Green Goblin The Green Goblin is a fictional character in the , a supervillain considered one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964).
Green Goddess The Green Goddess is the colloquial name for the Bedford RLHZ Self Propelled Pump, a fire engine used by the British Armed Forces. These green-painted vehicles were built between 1953 and 1956 for the Auxiliary Fire Service.
Green Great Wall The Green Great Wall or Great Green Wall is the name of a currently ongoing project by the Chinese government to build a windbreak 4,480 km (2,800 mile) in length along the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwest China. It is the world's largest reforestation project ever undertaken with billions of trees planted.
Green Green Green Green (ă‚°ăŞăĽăłă‚°ăŞăĽăł) is a Japanese, 12-episode anime adaptation of the H-game Green Green. Green Green is adapted from a pornographic video game, of which 3 volumes have been published, but it is not considered hentai.
Green Grow the Rushes, O Green Grow the Rushes, O (aka The Twelve Prophet or The Carol of the Twelve Numbers or The Teaching Song ), is a folk song popular in England, Scotland, and Wales. The song is extremely old, first recorded in Hebrew in the 16th century and probably much older than that; at the present, it is sometimes sung as a Christmas carol.
Green Guardsman Green Guardsman (AKA: Kyle O'Brien) is an Amalgam Comics superhero whose true appearance was Iron Lantern #1, though his metafictional appearance in the Amalgam universe was Showcase of Suspense #84, in a story entitled "The Other Iron Lantern". He was an amalgam of Kevin O'Brien, the Guardsman and Kyle Rayner, the then current Green Lantern.
Green Gulch Farm Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, (Green Dragon Temple, or Soryu-ji), is located in Sausalito, CA situated in a valley right on the Pacific Ocean. It is home to about 60 people, and is a Soto Zen temple and training area teaching Zen practice and ecological consciousness.
Green Gully Cavaliers Green Gully Cavaliers are an Australian football (soccer) club in Melbourne that plays in the Victorian Premier League (VPL). The club was founded in 1955 and celebrated its 50th anniversary by winning the VPL Grand Final in 2005.
Green Gym BTCV's Green Gym® programme aims to provide people with a way to enhance their fitness and health while taking action to improve the outdoor environment. It can be seen as enabling people to get fit who would not normally attend a conventional gym or sports centre.
Green humphead parrotfish The green humphead parrotfish, Bolbometopon muricatum, is a species of parrotfish, the only member of the genus Bolbometopon, found on reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from the Red Sea in the west to Samoa in the east, and from the Yaeyama Islands in the north to the Great Barrier Reef in the south. Other common names include bumphead parrotfish, humphead parrotfish, double-headed parrotfish, and giant parrotfish.
Green Hailey Green Hailey is a hamlet in the parish of Great Hampden, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the west of the main village of Great Hampden, and today it includes effectively just two cottages and a farm.
Green Harbor-Cedar Crest, Massachusetts Green Harbor is a census-designated place and village located in the town of Marshfield and Cedar Crest is a village in the town of Duxbury, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The population was 2,397 at the 2000 census.
Green Heaven Green Heaven is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their debut album, and one of the first songs they wrote. It is one of their most political songs complaining about the government and many of societies problems.
Green Henry Green Henry (German: Der grĂĽne Heinrich) is an autobiographical novel by the Swiss author Gottfried Keller, first published in 1855, and extensively revised in 1880. The work is a bildungsroman, detailing the life of Henry (or Heinrich) Lee from childhood through his first romantic encounters, his fledgling attempts at becoming a painter in Munich, and his eventual installation as a chancery clerk.
Green Heron The Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron. Some sources consider this bird and the Striated Heron or Mangrove Heron, Butorides striatus, of tropical Africa and Asia, to be a single species, the Green-backed Heron.
Green Hills Farm Green Hills Farm is the sixty-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where Nobel-prize-winning American author Pearl Buck lived for 38 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening. She completed many works while on the farm, including This Proud Heart (1938), The Patriot (1939), Today and Forever (1941), and The Child Who Never Grew (1950).
Green Hills of Africa Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway on the subject of the East African hunting safari he took with his wife in December of 1933, with the legendary Philip Percival as his guide. Most of the action takes place in the region of Lake Manyara in Kenya.
Green Hills Software Green Hills Software, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, USA, is a company that markets operating systems and development tools for embedded systems. The company was founded in 1982 by Dan O'Dowd and Carl Rosenberg, and has been profitable every year since it began.
Green Howards Regimental Museum The Green Howards Regimental Museum is the museum of the The Green Howards infantry regiment of the British Army. It is located in the old Trinity Church in the centre of the market place of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.
Green chemistry Green chemistry is a chemical philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Whereas environmental chemistry is the chemistry of the natural environment, and of pollutant chemicals in nature, green chemistry seeks to reduce and prevent pollution at its source.
Green children of Woolpit The Green children of Woolpit were two strange children who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, United Kingdom, in the 12th century. Accounts are given in the chronicles of Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh.
Green Cheese missile The Green Cheese missile was a British radar-guided anti-ship tactical nuclear warhead missile project of the 1950s. It was developed by Fairey Aviation, and was originally called Fairey Project 7 and was supposed to be used by the Fairey Gannet shipborne anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
Green Imperial Pigeon The Green Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia. It has a number of subspecies, of which the distinctive Celebes form, Chestnut-naped Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea paulina) is pictured.
Green Is The Colour Green is the colour was a song written and performed by the English rock band, Pink Floyd and appeared on the soundtrack album, Music from the Film More. The lyrics were written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour.
Green Island (Massachusetts) Green Island, also known as North Brewster Island, is a rocky outer island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, to the north of Calf Island and Hypocrite Channel. The island has a permanent size of 2.
Green Jackets Brigade The Green Jackets Brigade was an administrative apparatus of the British Army formed in 1948 to serve as a depot for the remaining regiments of rifles. Initally, only the two rifle regiments were part of the brigade:
Green Jay The Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas), a bird-species of the New World jays, exhibits distinct regional forms within its large but discontinuous range. This stretches from southern Texas south into Mexico and Central America, with a break before the species reappears in a broad sweep across the north of the South American continent in Peru, Colombia and Venezuela (* see note on taxonomy, below).
Green Jellÿ Green Jellÿ is an American comedy heavy metal/punk rock group. Originally named Green Jellö, the band changed its name due to legal pressure from the owners of the Jell-O trademark, Kraft Foods, who claimed that it was an infringement on their trademark.
Green Junglefowl The Green Junglefowl, Gallus varius also known as Javan Junglefowl, Forktail or Green Javanese Junglefowl is a medium-sized, up to 75cm long, bird in the pheasants family Phasianidae. It is native to Java, Bali, Lombok and nearby islands in Indonesia.
Green Knight Publishing Green Knight Publishing was founded by Peter Corless after he bought the rights to the award-winning Pendragon role-playing game from Chaosium in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, Green Knight published supplements for the role-playing game, in which players take on the roles of knights and ladies performing chivalric deeds in Arthurian Britain.
Green lanternshark The green lanternshark, Etmopterus virens, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the western central Atlantic from Texas to Florida and the northern Gulf of Mexico, and Nicaragua and Suriname between latitudes 30° N and 9° N, at depths of between 100 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 26 cm.
Green Label Green Label was an early US drum and bass record label based out of San Francisco. It debuted with Dj Abstract's "Invisible Lines" in 1996, and went on to include releases by Jason Mouse, Calibre, UFO!
Green Lakes State Park [satellite photograph of the central portion of Green Lakes State Park. The photograph shows the location of the two lakes, the major stands of old growth forest, and the trails that thread this section of the park.
Green Lama The Green Lama was an American pulp magazine hero of the 1940s. In many respects a typical costumed crime-fighter of the period, the Green Lama's most unusual feature was the fact that he was a practising Buddhist.
Green Lane railway station Green Lane railway station serves the town of Birkenhead, Wirral, England, located in the south of the town. It is situated on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.
Green Laning Green laning is the driving of the many unsurfaced tracks and roads throughout the countryside in the UK that have vehicular rights. Some of these, date back thousands of years connecting farms, villages and market towns, but during the early 20th century most roads were covered with hard surfaces.
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge Green Lantern Corps: Recharge was a five-issue, monthly comic book miniseries that was published by DC Comics from September 2005 to March 2006. The series was written by Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons and illustrated by penciler Patrick Gleason and inkers Christian Alamy and Prentis Rollins.
Green Lantern versus Aliens Green Lantern versus Aliens was a four-issue comic book miniseries published jointly by DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics monthly from September 2000 to December 2000. It was written by Ron Marz and illustrated by penciller Rick Leonardi and inker Mike Perkins, with covers by Dwayne Turner.
Green Lantern: Baptism of Fire Green Lantern: Baptism of Fire is a collection of Green Lantern stories, collecting issues #59, #66-67 & #70-75 (3rd series). It follows Kyle Rayner as he learns to accept being Green Lantern and all that entails.
Green Lantern: Circle of Fire Green Lantern: Circle of Fire is a seven-issue comic book miniseries starring Green Lantern Kyle Rayner that was published by DC Comics in October 2000. It consists of two bookend issues, titled Green Lantern: Circle of Fire, and five issues in between in each of which a brand new Green Lantern Corps member pairs up with an established DC superhero.
Green Lantern: Power of Ion Green Lantern: The Power of Ion is a graphic novel that collects the stories of Green Lantern (3rd series) issues #142 - 150. The story revolves around Kyle's growing power as Green Lantern and eventual evolution into Ion.
Green Lantern: Rebirth Green Lantern: Rebirth was a six-issue, monthly comic book miniseries written by Geoff Johns, and illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver. Published by DC Comics from October 2004 to May 2005 (cover dated December 2004 – May 2005), the series starred various members of the fictional intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps, most notably Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart and Guy Gardner, as well as various other prominent heroes of the DC universe.
Green Left (UK) Green Left is an anti-capitalist and eco-socialist faction within the Green Party of England and Wales. It seeks to constitute a network for socialists and other radicals in the Green Party, whilst acting as an outreach body that will communicate the party's radical policies to other socialists and anti-capitalists outside the party.
Green Left Weekly Green Left Weekly is a radical left-wing Australian newspaper. Initiated by the Democratic Socialist Party in 1991, currently it is formally independent of any political party, although its editorial line supports the Australian Socialist Alliance, and it is closely linked to the Democratic Socialist Perspective.
Green Light Racing Green Light Racing is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team. Owned and operated by former drivers Gene Christensen and Bobby Dotter, the team fields two full-time entries in the Truck Series, the #07 and the #08.
Green Line "A" Branch The "A" Branch or Watertown Branch was a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line. Since 1969, it has been replaced by the 57 bus, though the tracks remained continuous until March 1994.
Green Line "B" Branch The "B" Branch, also called the Commonwealth Avenue Branch or Boston College Branch, is a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, along which light rail vehicles run on a surface right-of-way down the middle of Commonwealth Avenue. After going underground via the Blandford Street Incline, the tracks merge with the "C" and "D" Branches into Kenmore station.
Green Line "C" Branch The "C" Branch, also called the Beacon Street Branch or Cleveland Circle Branch, is one of the streetcar/light rail lines that runs into the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line subway in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The surface section is in the median of Beacon Street, splitting from the "B" and "D" Branches at Kenmore before surfacing onto Beacon Street via the St.
Green Line "D" Branch The "D" Branch, also called the Highland Branch or Riverside Branch, is a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, along which light rail vehicles run. The majority of the line is a grade-separated right-of-way formerly used by the Highland Branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad.
Green Line "E" Branch The "E" Branch or Arborway Branch is a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line. Since 1985, service beyond Heath Street has been "temporarily" suspended, with the 39 bus providing service beyond.
Green Line (Cyprus) The term Green Line is often used to refer to the line of demarcation that divides the Cypriot capital of Nicosia into the southern Greek Cypriot region, the controlled area by Republic of Cyprus and the northern Turkish Cypriot region, which is occupied by the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It was first established in 1964 when Turkish Cypriots decided they needed their own enclaves for protection.
Green Line (Chicago Transit Authority) The Green Line (Lake-Englewood & Lake-Jackson Park Services) is part of the CTA rapid transit system known as the Chicago 'L'. It is a completely elevated route utilizing the system's oldest segments (dating back to 1892), extending 20.
Green Line (Lebanon) The Green Line was a line of demarcation in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990: it served to separate the Muslim Lebanese in West Beirut from the Christian Lebanese in East Beirut. The appellation refers to the coloration of the foliage that grew in the uninhabited space.
Green Line (magazine) Green Line is a magazine devoted to coverage of 'Green' and ecological issues. The magazine was founded by Jon Carpenter and Richard Hunt, who later broke away to set up the explicitly anarchist magazine Green Anarchist.
Green Line (MBTA) The Green Line is a light rail/streetcar system in the Boston, Massachusetts area, run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). It is the oldest line of Boston's subway, running underground downtown and on the surface in outlying areas.
Green Line (Seattle) The Green Line was the first phase of a proposed five-line monorail system to be constructed in Seattle, Washington by the Seattle Popular Monorail Authority, also known as the Seattle Monorail Project. The fourteen-mile line was to run from Ballard to West Seattle via Seattle Center, Belltown, Downtown, Pioneer Square, the International District, and Qwest Field.
Green Line (Washington Metro) The Green Line of the Washington Metro consists of 21 subway stations from Branch Ave to Greenbelt. It starts in Prince George's County, Maryland, runs through the District of Columbia, and exits back out into Prince George's County.
Green Line Rivalry The Green Line Rivalry, also known as the B-Line Rivalry, the Battle of the Commonwealth and Battle of Commonwealth Avenue, is the name for the hockey rivalry between Boston College and Boston University. The rivalry is named after the trolley line that runs along Commonwealth Avenue and links the two schools as part of the MBTA, Boston's subway system.
Green Linnet Records Green Linnet Records is an independent record label specializing in music loosely configured under the 'Celtic' label. Founded by Lisa Null and Patrick Sky in the early 1970s, it was initially based in Lisa's house before moving to Danbury, Connecticut after being taken over by Wendy Newton.
Green manure In agriculture, a green manure is a type of cover crop grown primarily to add nutrients and organic matter to the soil. Typically, a green manure crop is grown for a specific period, and then plowed under and incorporated into the soil.
Green marketing According to the American Marketing Association, green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Thus green marketing incorporates a broad range of activities, including product modification, changes to the production process, packaging changes, as well as modifying advertising.
Green mix Green mix is an early step in the manufacturing of black powder for explosives. It is a rough mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur in the correct proportions (75:15:10) for black powder, but is not milled, pressed or corned.
Green moray The green moray, Gymnothorax funebris, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the western Atlantic from New Jersey, Bermuda, and the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil, at depths down to 40 m. Its length is up to 2.
Green movement The Green movement encompasses the Green parties of various countries, and relies on the ideals of the larger ecology movement, peace movement, conservation movement, environmental movement and general trend towards environmentalism. The most extreme members are sometimes called Gaians.
Green movement in South Africa The Green movement in South Africa traces its history from the early beginnings of conservation, to the rise of radicalism and activism amongst local ecologists. Before the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were very few green activist groups in the country.
Green Magnet School Green Magnet School was an experimental rock band formed in Massachusetts in 1987. The founding members included Tim Shea on guitar and vocals, Rob Hamilton on drums, Can Keskin on guitar and bass, Steve Rzucidlo on bass, and Chris Pearson on guitar and vocals.
Green Magpie The Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) is a member of the Crow family, roughly about the size of the Eurasian Jay or slightly smaller. It is a vivid green in colour, slightly lighter on the underside and has a thick black stripe from the bill (through the eyes) to the nape.
Green Man A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing or other representation of a face surrounded by (or made from) leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face, and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit.
Green Man (comics) Green Man is a fictional comic book superhero, an extraterrestrial from the planet Uxor in the Vega star system, and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps. He first appeared in DC Comics' Green Lantern (vol.
Green Man (PGI) The "Green man" is a figure associated with the Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI). He appears on the guild's emblem and was selected from John Bate's 1635 fireworks treatise, "The Second Booke", to symbolize the long tradition of using fireworks as an essential part of festivals and celebrations - at that time led by so-called "Green men" appointed to head processions with a "Fire Club" shooting sparks.
Green Mansions (film) Green Mansions is the title of an American motion picture that was produced in 1959 and directed by Mel Ferrer. Based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, the film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a traveller played by Anthony Perkins.
Green Meadow Waldorf School Green Meadow Waldorf School is a Waldorf school located in Chestnut Ridge (near Spring Valley), New York, in Rockland County, near the Hudson River, it consists of parent/child classes, a nursery/kindergarten program, elementary school (1st to 8th grades), and high school (9th through 12th grades), and has approximately 400 students. It is also part of the larger anthroposophical community in Chestnut Ridge, which includes a teachers' college for Waldorf education, Sunbridge College; a Eurythmy school; a community for the aging, the Fellowship Community; and a training center for biodynamic agriculture.
Green Meadows Conference The Green Meadows Conference is an OHSAA athletic league located in northwest Ohio. The following schools are the current members, with the school name providing a link to the town or city in which it is located or near:
Green Men of Birmingham The Green Men of Birmingham (Green Men, more recently known as foliate heads) were prolific carved stone human heads usually with vegetation growing from their faces and used as architectural decoration across Birmingham, having their origins in the mediaeval town.
Green Monster (car) The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons who was often described as a "junk yard genius", and his half brother Walt Arfons. They were initially Dragsters, at first powered by junked automobile engines, then by war surplus piston aircraft engines (Ranger and Allison V-1710), which were plentiful, durable, and cheap, then by jet aircraft engines.
Green Monster Games Green Monster Games is a video game development and publishing company formed by Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling and named after the famous left field wall at Fenway Park, that is focused on MMORPGs, which Schilling had previously expressed interest in through Everquest.
Green Mountain Energy Green Mountain Energy Company is a retail provider of clean renewable (green) electricity products to residential, commercial and governmental customers in the United States. The renewable electricity products, which vary by state, include electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, water (hydroelectric), geothermal, landfill gas and biomass.
Green Mountain Railroad The Green Mountain Railroad is a railway located in central-south Vermont operating on a segment of the former Rutland Railway and a very short portion of the former Boston and Maine Railroad between North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Rutland, Vermont. Corporate colors are green and yellow.
Green Movement of Sri Lanka The Green Movement of Sri Lanka is a consortium of 147 non-governmental organizations with a common goal of increasing environmental awareness and furthering conservation efforts in Sri Lanka. The movement provides environmental education resources, and also uses legal avenues and political pressure tactics such as lobbying to achieve their aims.
Green National Convention The Green National Convention is the Presidential nominating convention of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS). Though the Green National Committee meets annually in a "national meeting", the convention is convened by the GNC once every four years in order to nominate an official candidate in the upcoming U.
Green Nuns Of The Revolution Green Nuns of the Revolution (GNOTR) are Dick Trevor, Neil Cowley and Matt Coldrick, a psychedelic trance project. Matt Coldrick was also a session guitarist for Gabrielle, and Neil Cowley played keyboards for the Brand New Heavies.
Green on Red Green on Red were an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground. Earlier records have the wide-screen psychedelic sound of first-wave desert rock, with occasional impulses toward pop mitigated by the limitations of shambolic vocalist Dan Stuart.
Green onion pancake Green onion pancake (traditional Chinese: 蔥油餅; simplified Chinese: 葱油饼; pinyin: cĹŤng yĂłu bÇng, lit. "scallion oil cake") is a Chinese snack consisting of a non-leavened, salty flatbread infused with oil and minced scallions (green onions).
Green politics Green politics or Green ideology is the ideology of the Green Parties, mainly informed by environmentalism, ecology and sustainable economics and aimed at developing a sustainable society. It is considered by its advocates to be an alternative to socialism, conservatism, and liberalism, although adherents of the traditional ideologies tend to view Greens as representing "one of the others.
Green procurement Green procurement means the procurement of products and services that have less impact on the environment than their traditional counterparts. Greener procurement incorporates environmental considerations into decisions in addition to the conventional criteria of price and quality.
Green Parakeet The Green Parakeet (Aratinga holochlora) is native to Mexico and Central America south to northern Nicaragua. Some of these birds have established self sustaining populations in some cities in southeast Texas in the United States.
Green Park Society Green Park Society (GPS) is a coaltion of Emory University students dedicated to improving Atlanta blighted parks and recreation areas. The Society was created in Fall 2004 in response to a lack of student-catered community service options.
Green Party (Brazil) The Brazilian Green Party (in Portuguese, Partido Verde - PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-democracy and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira (a federal deputy since 1995).
Green Party (Sweden) The Green Party (, literally "Environment Party the Greens", and usually simply referred to in Sweden as Miljöpartiet: the "Environment Party") is a green political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1981 emerging out of the movement opposing nuclear power in a referendum held 1980.
Green Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election The Green Party of Canada ran a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2004 federal election. Some of these candidates have separate biography pages; relevant information about other candidates may be found here.
Green fluorescent protein The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein, comprised of 238 amino acids, from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. This process takes place when the protein aequorin, also produced by A.
Green for Danger Green for Danger is a popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting. It was made into a 1946 film which is regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel.
Green function In mathematics, a Green function (or Green's function) is a type of function used to solve inhomogeneous differential equations subject to boundary conditions. The term is used in physics, specifically in quantum field theory and statistical field theory, to refer to various types of correlation functions, even those that do not fit the mathematical definition; for this sense, see Correlation function (quantum field theory) and Green's function (many-body theory).
Green Fireballs A number of sightings described as "Green Fireballs" were reported in the skies of the southwestern United States, particularly New Mexico, beginning in late 1948. Such sightings worried some in the government, who noted that the reports were often made near to sensitive research and military installations, such as Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratory (then Sandia base)(Ruppelt, Chap.
Green goddess dressing Green goddess is a salad dressing, typically containing mayonnaise, sour cream, parsley, chives, anchovy, tarragon, lemon juice, and pepper. Before the advent of ranch dressing, green goddess was possibly one of the most popular salad dressings in the West Coast of the United States.
Green gold catfish The green gold catfish, Corydoras melanotaenia, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Meta River basin in Colombia.
Green Gables Croquet Club The Green Gables Croquet Club of Spring Lake, New Jersey was founded in 1957 by Suzie Linden (1913-1996). It is the oldest continuous croquet club in the United States and among the three founding members of the U.
Green Gang The Green Gang (éť’ĺą«, QÄ«ng BÄng) was a criminal organization operating in Shanghai in the early 20th century. This gang was a secret society established originally started by Fong Toh Tak of the Shaolin temple, and by the 20th century, included many successful businessmen.
Green Gas Green Gas is the propellant typically used to drive Gas Blow Back Airsoft guns, consisting of propane with small amounts of silicone oil added. Some brands may advertise their product as Green Gas, or refer to it as "Ultra Green Gas", "Xtreme Green Gas" or similar, when in fact the propellant is not Green Gas/propane.
Green Goblin The Green Goblin is a fictional character in the , a supervillain considered one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964).
Green Goddess The Green Goddess is the colloquial name for the Bedford RLHZ Self Propelled Pump, a fire engine used by the British Armed Forces. These green-painted vehicles were built between 1953 and 1956 for the Auxiliary Fire Service.
Green Great Wall The Green Great Wall or Great Green Wall is the name of a currently ongoing project by the Chinese government to build a windbreak 4,480 km (2,800 mile) in length along the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwest China. It is the world's largest reforestation project ever undertaken with billions of trees planted.
Green Green Green Green (ă‚°ăŞăĽăłă‚°ăŞăĽăł) is a Japanese, 12-episode anime adaptation of the H-game Green Green. Green Green is adapted from a pornographic video game, of which 3 volumes have been published, but it is not considered hentai.
Green Grow the Rushes, O Green Grow the Rushes, O (aka The Twelve Prophet or The Carol of the Twelve Numbers or The Teaching Song ), is a folk song popular in England, Scotland, and Wales. The song is extremely old, first recorded in Hebrew in the 16th century and probably much older than that; at the present, it is sometimes sung as a Christmas carol.
Green Guardsman Green Guardsman (AKA: Kyle O'Brien) is an Amalgam Comics superhero whose true appearance was Iron Lantern #1, though his metafictional appearance in the Amalgam universe was Showcase of Suspense #84, in a story entitled "The Other Iron Lantern". He was an amalgam of Kevin O'Brien, the Guardsman and Kyle Rayner, the then current Green Lantern.
Green Gulch Farm Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, (Green Dragon Temple, or Soryu-ji), is located in Sausalito, CA situated in a valley right on the Pacific Ocean. It is home to about 60 people, and is a Soto Zen temple and training area teaching Zen practice and ecological consciousness.
Green Gully Cavaliers Green Gully Cavaliers are an Australian football (soccer) club in Melbourne that plays in the Victorian Premier League (VPL). The club was founded in 1955 and celebrated its 50th anniversary by winning the VPL Grand Final in 2005.
Green Gym BTCV's Green Gym® programme aims to provide people with a way to enhance their fitness and health while taking action to improve the outdoor environment. It can be seen as enabling people to get fit who would not normally attend a conventional gym or sports centre.
Green humphead parrotfish The green humphead parrotfish, Bolbometopon muricatum, is a species of parrotfish, the only member of the genus Bolbometopon, found on reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from the Red Sea in the west to Samoa in the east, and from the Yaeyama Islands in the north to the Great Barrier Reef in the south. Other common names include bumphead parrotfish, humphead parrotfish, double-headed parrotfish, and giant parrotfish.
Green Hailey Green Hailey is a hamlet in the parish of Great Hampden, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the west of the main village of Great Hampden, and today it includes effectively just two cottages and a farm.
Green Harbor-Cedar Crest, Massachusetts Green Harbor is a census-designated place and village located in the town of Marshfield and Cedar Crest is a village in the town of Duxbury, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The population was 2,397 at the 2000 census.
Green Heaven Green Heaven is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their debut album, and one of the first songs they wrote. It is one of their most political songs complaining about the government and many of societies problems.
Green Henry Green Henry (German: Der grĂĽne Heinrich) is an autobiographical novel by the Swiss author Gottfried Keller, first published in 1855, and extensively revised in 1880. The work is a bildungsroman, detailing the life of Henry (or Heinrich) Lee from childhood through his first romantic encounters, his fledgling attempts at becoming a painter in Munich, and his eventual installation as a chancery clerk.
Green Heron The Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron. Some sources consider this bird and the Striated Heron or Mangrove Heron, Butorides striatus, of tropical Africa and Asia, to be a single species, the Green-backed Heron.
Green Hills Farm Green Hills Farm is the sixty-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where Nobel-prize-winning American author Pearl Buck lived for 38 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening. She completed many works while on the farm, including This Proud Heart (1938), The Patriot (1939), Today and Forever (1941), and The Child Who Never Grew (1950).
Green Hills of Africa Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway on the subject of the East African hunting safari he took with his wife in December of 1933, with the legendary Philip Percival as his guide. Most of the action takes place in the region of Lake Manyara in Kenya.
Green Hills Software Green Hills Software, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, USA, is a company that markets operating systems and development tools for embedded systems. The company was founded in 1982 by Dan O'Dowd and Carl Rosenberg, and has been profitable every year since it began.
Green Howards Regimental Museum The Green Howards Regimental Museum is the museum of the The Green Howards infantry regiment of the British Army. It is located in the old Trinity Church in the centre of the market place of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.
Green chemistry Green chemistry is a chemical philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Whereas environmental chemistry is the chemistry of the natural environment, and of pollutant chemicals in nature, green chemistry seeks to reduce and prevent pollution at its source.
Green children of Woolpit The Green children of Woolpit were two strange children who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, United Kingdom, in the 12th century. Accounts are given in the chronicles of Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh.
Green Cheese missile The Green Cheese missile was a British radar-guided anti-ship tactical nuclear warhead missile project of the 1950s. It was developed by Fairey Aviation, and was originally called Fairey Project 7 and was supposed to be used by the Fairey Gannet shipborne anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
Green Imperial Pigeon The Green Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia. It has a number of subspecies, of which the distinctive Celebes form, Chestnut-naped Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea paulina) is pictured.
Green Is The Colour Green is the colour was a song written and performed by the English rock band, Pink Floyd and appeared on the soundtrack album, Music from the Film More. The lyrics were written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour.
Green Island (Massachusetts) Green Island, also known as North Brewster Island, is a rocky outer island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, to the north of Calf Island and Hypocrite Channel. The island has a permanent size of 2.
Green Jackets Brigade The Green Jackets Brigade was an administrative apparatus of the British Army formed in 1948 to serve as a depot for the remaining regiments of rifles. Initally, only the two rifle regiments were part of the brigade:
Green Jay The Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas), a bird-species of the New World jays, exhibits distinct regional forms within its large but discontinuous range. This stretches from southern Texas south into Mexico and Central America, with a break before the species reappears in a broad sweep across the north of the South American continent in Peru, Colombia and Venezuela (* see note on taxonomy, below).
Green Jellÿ Green Jellÿ is an American comedy heavy metal/punk rock group. Originally named Green Jellö, the band changed its name due to legal pressure from the owners of the Jell-O trademark, Kraft Foods, who claimed that it was an infringement on their trademark.
Green Junglefowl The Green Junglefowl, Gallus varius also known as Javan Junglefowl, Forktail or Green Javanese Junglefowl is a medium-sized, up to 75cm long, bird in the pheasants family Phasianidae. It is native to Java, Bali, Lombok and nearby islands in Indonesia.
Green Knight Publishing Green Knight Publishing was founded by Peter Corless after he bought the rights to the award-winning Pendragon role-playing game from Chaosium in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, Green Knight published supplements for the role-playing game, in which players take on the roles of knights and ladies performing chivalric deeds in Arthurian Britain.
Green lanternshark The green lanternshark, Etmopterus virens, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the western central Atlantic from Texas to Florida and the northern Gulf of Mexico, and Nicaragua and Suriname between latitudes 30° N and 9° N, at depths of between 100 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 26 cm.
Green Label Green Label was an early US drum and bass record label based out of San Francisco. It debuted with Dj Abstract's "Invisible Lines" in 1996, and went on to include releases by Jason Mouse, Calibre, UFO!
Green Lakes State Park [satellite photograph of the central portion of Green Lakes State Park. The photograph shows the location of the two lakes, the major stands of old growth forest, and the trails that thread this section of the park.
Green Lama The Green Lama was an American pulp magazine hero of the 1940s. In many respects a typical costumed crime-fighter of the period, the Green Lama's most unusual feature was the fact that he was a practising Buddhist.
Green Lane railway station Green Lane railway station serves the town of Birkenhead, Wirral, England, located in the south of the town. It is situated on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.
Green Laning Green laning is the driving of the many unsurfaced tracks and roads throughout the countryside in the UK that have vehicular rights. Some of these, date back thousands of years connecting farms, villages and market towns, but during the early 20th century most roads were covered with hard surfaces.
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge Green Lantern Corps: Recharge was a five-issue, monthly comic book miniseries that was published by DC Comics from September 2005 to March 2006. The series was written by Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons and illustrated by penciler Patrick Gleason and inkers Christian Alamy and Prentis Rollins.
Green Lantern versus Aliens Green Lantern versus Aliens was a four-issue comic book miniseries published jointly by DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics monthly from September 2000 to December 2000. It was written by Ron Marz and illustrated by penciller Rick Leonardi and inker Mike Perkins, with covers by Dwayne Turner.
Green Lantern: Baptism of Fire Green Lantern: Baptism of Fire is a collection of Green Lantern stories, collecting issues #59, #66-67 & #70-75 (3rd series). It follows Kyle Rayner as he learns to accept being Green Lantern and all that entails.
Green Lantern: Circle of Fire Green Lantern: Circle of Fire is a seven-issue comic book miniseries starring Green Lantern Kyle Rayner that was published by DC Comics in October 2000. It consists of two bookend issues, titled Green Lantern: Circle of Fire, and five issues in between in each of which a brand new Green Lantern Corps member pairs up with an established DC superhero.
Green Lantern: Power of Ion Green Lantern: The Power of Ion is a graphic novel that collects the stories of Green Lantern (3rd series) issues #142 - 150. The story revolves around Kyle's growing power as Green Lantern and eventual evolution into Ion.
Green Lantern: Rebirth Green Lantern: Rebirth was a six-issue, monthly comic book miniseries written by Geoff Johns, and illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver. Published by DC Comics from October 2004 to May 2005 (cover dated December 2004 – May 2005), the series starred various members of the fictional intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps, most notably Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart and Guy Gardner, as well as various other prominent heroes of the DC universe.
Green Left (UK) Green Left is an anti-capitalist and eco-socialist faction within the Green Party of England and Wales. It seeks to constitute a network for socialists and other radicals in the Green Party, whilst acting as an outreach body that will communicate the party's radical policies to other socialists and anti-capitalists outside the party.
Green Left Weekly Green Left Weekly is a radical left-wing Australian newspaper. Initiated by the Democratic Socialist Party in 1991, currently it is formally independent of any political party, although its editorial line supports the Australian Socialist Alliance, and it is closely linked to the Democratic Socialist Perspective.
Green Light Racing Green Light Racing is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team. Owned and operated by former drivers Gene Christensen and Bobby Dotter, the team fields two full-time entries in the Truck Series, the #07 and the #08.
Green Line "A" Branch The "A" Branch or Watertown Branch was a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line. Since 1969, it has been replaced by the 57 bus, though the tracks remained continuous until March 1994.
Green Line "B" Branch The "B" Branch, also called the Commonwealth Avenue Branch or Boston College Branch, is a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, along which light rail vehicles run on a surface right-of-way down the middle of Commonwealth Avenue. After going underground via the Blandford Street Incline, the tracks merge with the "C" and "D" Branches into Kenmore station.
Green Line "C" Branch The "C" Branch, also called the Beacon Street Branch or Cleveland Circle Branch, is one of the streetcar/light rail lines that runs into the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line subway in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The surface section is in the median of Beacon Street, splitting from the "B" and "D" Branches at Kenmore before surfacing onto Beacon Street via the St.
Green Line "D" Branch The "D" Branch, also called the Highland Branch or Riverside Branch, is a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, along which light rail vehicles run. The majority of the line is a grade-separated right-of-way formerly used by the Highland Branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad.
Green Line "E" Branch The "E" Branch or Arborway Branch is a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line. Since 1985, service beyond Heath Street has been "temporarily" suspended, with the 39 bus providing service beyond.
Green Line (Cyprus) The term Green Line is often used to refer to the line of demarcation that divides the Cypriot capital of Nicosia into the southern Greek Cypriot region, the controlled area by Republic of Cyprus and the northern Turkish Cypriot region, which is occupied by the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It was first established in 1964 when Turkish Cypriots decided they needed their own enclaves for protection.
Green Line (Chicago Transit Authority) The Green Line (Lake-Englewood & Lake-Jackson Park Services) is part of the CTA rapid transit system known as the Chicago 'L'. It is a completely elevated route utilizing the system's oldest segments (dating back to 1892), extending 20.
Green Line (Lebanon) The Green Line was a line of demarcation in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990: it served to separate the Muslim Lebanese in West Beirut from the Christian Lebanese in East Beirut. The appellation refers to the coloration of the foliage that grew in the uninhabited space.
Green Line (magazine) Green Line is a magazine devoted to coverage of 'Green' and ecological issues. The magazine was founded by Jon Carpenter and Richard Hunt, who later broke away to set up the explicitly anarchist magazine Green Anarchist.
Green Line (MBTA) The Green Line is a light rail/streetcar system in the Boston, Massachusetts area, run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). It is the oldest line of Boston's subway, running underground downtown and on the surface in outlying areas.
Green Line (Seattle) The Green Line was the first phase of a proposed five-line monorail system to be constructed in Seattle, Washington by the Seattle Popular Monorail Authority, also known as the Seattle Monorail Project. The fourteen-mile line was to run from Ballard to West Seattle via Seattle Center, Belltown, Downtown, Pioneer Square, the International District, and Qwest Field.
Green Line (Washington Metro) The Green Line of the Washington Metro consists of 21 subway stations from Branch Ave to Greenbelt. It starts in Prince George's County, Maryland, runs through the District of Columbia, and exits back out into Prince George's County.
Green Line Rivalry The Green Line Rivalry, also known as the B-Line Rivalry, the Battle of the Commonwealth and Battle of Commonwealth Avenue, is the name for the hockey rivalry between Boston College and Boston University. The rivalry is named after the trolley line that runs along Commonwealth Avenue and links the two schools as part of the MBTA, Boston's subway system.
Green Linnet Records Green Linnet Records is an independent record label specializing in music loosely configured under the 'Celtic' label. Founded by Lisa Null and Patrick Sky in the early 1970s, it was initially based in Lisa's house before moving to Danbury, Connecticut after being taken over by Wendy Newton.
Green manure In agriculture, a green manure is a type of cover crop grown primarily to add nutrients and organic matter to the soil. Typically, a green manure crop is grown for a specific period, and then plowed under and incorporated into the soil.
Green marketing According to the American Marketing Association, green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Thus green marketing incorporates a broad range of activities, including product modification, changes to the production process, packaging changes, as well as modifying advertising.
Green mix Green mix is an early step in the manufacturing of black powder for explosives. It is a rough mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur in the correct proportions (75:15:10) for black powder, but is not milled, pressed or corned.
Green moray The green moray, Gymnothorax funebris, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the western Atlantic from New Jersey, Bermuda, and the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil, at depths down to 40 m. Its length is up to 2.
Green movement The Green movement encompasses the Green parties of various countries, and relies on the ideals of the larger ecology movement, peace movement, conservation movement, environmental movement and general trend towards environmentalism. The most extreme members are sometimes called Gaians.
Green movement in South Africa The Green movement in South Africa traces its history from the early beginnings of conservation, to the rise of radicalism and activism amongst local ecologists. Before the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were very few green activist groups in the country.
Green Magnet School Green Magnet School was an experimental rock band formed in Massachusetts in 1987. The founding members included Tim Shea on guitar and vocals, Rob Hamilton on drums, Can Keskin on guitar and bass, Steve Rzucidlo on bass, and Chris Pearson on guitar and vocals.
Green Magpie The Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) is a member of the Crow family, roughly about the size of the Eurasian Jay or slightly smaller. It is a vivid green in colour, slightly lighter on the underside and has a thick black stripe from the bill (through the eyes) to the nape.
Green Man A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing or other representation of a face surrounded by (or made from) leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face, and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit.
Green Man (comics) Green Man is a fictional comic book superhero, an extraterrestrial from the planet Uxor in the Vega star system, and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps. He first appeared in DC Comics' Green Lantern (vol.
Green Man (PGI) The "Green man" is a figure associated with the Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI). He appears on the guild's emblem and was selected from John Bate's 1635 fireworks treatise, "The Second Booke", to symbolize the long tradition of using fireworks as an essential part of festivals and celebrations - at that time led by so-called "Green men" appointed to head processions with a "Fire Club" shooting sparks.
Green Mansions (film) Green Mansions is the title of an American motion picture that was produced in 1959 and directed by Mel Ferrer. Based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, the film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a traveller played by Anthony Perkins.
Green Meadow Waldorf School Green Meadow Waldorf School is a Waldorf school located in Chestnut Ridge (near Spring Valley), New York, in Rockland County, near the Hudson River, it consists of parent/child classes, a nursery/kindergarten program, elementary school (1st to 8th grades), and high school (9th through 12th grades), and has approximately 400 students. It is also part of the larger anthroposophical community in Chestnut Ridge, which includes a teachers' college for Waldorf education, Sunbridge College; a Eurythmy school; a community for the aging, the Fellowship Community; and a training center for biodynamic agriculture.
Green Meadows Conference The Green Meadows Conference is an OHSAA athletic league located in northwest Ohio. The following schools are the current members, with the school name providing a link to the town or city in which it is located or near:
Green Men of Birmingham The Green Men of Birmingham (Green Men, more recently known as foliate heads) were prolific carved stone human heads usually with vegetation growing from their faces and used as architectural decoration across Birmingham, having their origins in the mediaeval town.
Green Monster (car) The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons who was often described as a "junk yard genius", and his half brother Walt Arfons. They were initially Dragsters, at first powered by junked automobile engines, then by war surplus piston aircraft engines (Ranger and Allison V-1710), which were plentiful, durable, and cheap, then by jet aircraft engines.
Green Monster Games Green Monster Games is a video game development and publishing company formed by Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling and named after the famous left field wall at Fenway Park, that is focused on MMORPGs, which Schilling had previously expressed interest in through Everquest.
Green Mountain Energy Green Mountain Energy Company is a retail provider of clean renewable (green) electricity products to residential, commercial and governmental customers in the United States. The renewable electricity products, which vary by state, include electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, water (hydroelectric), geothermal, landfill gas and biomass.
Green Mountain Railroad The Green Mountain Railroad is a railway located in central-south Vermont operating on a segment of the former Rutland Railway and a very short portion of the former Boston and Maine Railroad between North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Rutland, Vermont. Corporate colors are green and yellow.
Green Movement of Sri Lanka The Green Movement of Sri Lanka is a consortium of 147 non-governmental organizations with a common goal of increasing environmental awareness and furthering conservation efforts in Sri Lanka. The movement provides environmental education resources, and also uses legal avenues and political pressure tactics such as lobbying to achieve their aims.
Green National Convention The Green National Convention is the Presidential nominating convention of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS). Though the Green National Committee meets annually in a "national meeting", the convention is convened by the GNC once every four years in order to nominate an official candidate in the upcoming U.
Green Nuns Of The Revolution Green Nuns of the Revolution (GNOTR) are Dick Trevor, Neil Cowley and Matt Coldrick, a psychedelic trance project. Matt Coldrick was also a session guitarist for Gabrielle, and Neil Cowley played keyboards for the Brand New Heavies.
Green on Red Green on Red were an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground. Earlier records have the wide-screen psychedelic sound of first-wave desert rock, with occasional impulses toward pop mitigated by the limitations of shambolic vocalist Dan Stuart.
Green onion pancake Green onion pancake (traditional Chinese: 蔥油餅; simplified Chinese: 葱油饼; pinyin: cĹŤng yĂłu bÇng, lit. "scallion oil cake") is a Chinese snack consisting of a non-leavened, salty flatbread infused with oil and minced scallions (green onions).
Green politics Green politics or Green ideology is the ideology of the Green Parties, mainly informed by environmentalism, ecology and sustainable economics and aimed at developing a sustainable society. It is considered by its advocates to be an alternative to socialism, conservatism, and liberalism, although adherents of the traditional ideologies tend to view Greens as representing "one of the others.
Green procurement Green procurement means the procurement of products and services that have less impact on the environment than their traditional counterparts. Greener procurement incorporates environmental considerations into decisions in addition to the conventional criteria of price and quality.
Green Parakeet The Green Parakeet (Aratinga holochlora) is native to Mexico and Central America south to northern Nicaragua. Some of these birds have established self sustaining populations in some cities in southeast Texas in the United States.
Green Park Society Green Park Society (GPS) is a coaltion of Emory University students dedicated to improving Atlanta blighted parks and recreation areas. The Society was created in Fall 2004 in response to a lack of student-catered community service options.
Green Party (Brazil) The Brazilian Green Party (in Portuguese, Partido Verde - PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-democracy and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira (a federal deputy since 1995).
Green Party (Sweden) The Green Party (, literally "Environment Party the Greens", and usually simply referred to in Sweden as Miljöpartiet: the "Environment Party") is a green political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1981 emerging out of the movement opposing nuclear power in a referendum held 1980.
Green Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election The Green Party of Canada ran a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2004 federal election. Some of these candidates have separate biography pages; relevant information about other candidates may be found here.
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