So regulating the question of who can register the word GREEN falls squarely within the ordinary business of the Trademark Office.

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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: a locomotive that runs on hydrogen, honey detective and a 30 mph-capable hover bike

What we need, to borrow another word from the green vernacular, is balance.

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FedEx trucks with the word "Ground" in bright green are rolling through neighborhoods.

FORBES: Start the Ground War

Vandals have daubed the word Islam in spray paint on war memorials in Green Park and Hyde Park in London.

BBC: Vandals deface war memorials in London parks