All green

Once upon a time, there was a US president who went green.

He put solar panels on the Whitehouse roof.

That was Mr. Carter.

The next one took them off.

This post is in danger of getting depressing, so we shift to different meanings and concepts of green.

To give something the green light is, next to eco green,  one of our more favorable usages of green. It embodies simplicity and moving ahead. We, and everybody else, choose to ignore the fact that the traffic light green can not just send you forward but also left or right and, if you have enough one-way streets, in a circle. Even way back past your original starting point.

TheEditor paused and looked very pleased at the twisted metaphor.

And in Japan, the go is blue. 

There is this old, really old joke some school children somewhere told to each other on the subject of racism.

School children pile into the bus, then the driver turns around and announces "Kids, listen up.  There's gonna be no racism on this bus, especially not from me! This segregation of black and white is bad. To me, you are all green, okay. Now, will the dark green please go to the rear, the others to the front."

Kids.

In Western politics, especially in recent years, it might seem, green with rage and green with envy have been fashion trends. No amount of spray tan can hide this completely.

Oh, we almost forgot green washing.

It works exactly like Tom Sawyer's fence operation, except with green.  If you don't believe it, just read that section of the book, there are free copies all over the internet.

Green is?

All of the above.