Trade policy is a key instrument to ensure the spread of green technology to developing countries while also promoting growth and jobs in Europe.

FORBES: Setting The Agenda For Global Green Growth Forum 2012

The biggest fans of the green revolution say that the spread of solar and wind is a mark of success.

BBC: Who pays for the greening of Germany?

The green revolution, which spread enabling technologies of high-yield agriculture across the planet, resulted in doubling of grain production.

FORBES: Thomas Malthus: Wrong Yesterday, Right Today?

Rusts especially exercised him: how they lived, under the green live tissue of stems, how they spread, travelling for miles on the jet stream, and how they fell from the sky to infect even the healthiest crop, if the moisture and temperature were right.

ECONOMIST: Norman Borlaug

Countries are issuing, or at least preparing, a long list of promises to help finance research into new seeds, build irrigation canals and spread fertiliser use among small farmers (seeds, irrigation and fertilisers were the main components of the first green revolution in the 1960s).

ECONOMIST: The world food summit

The spread between science knowledge and sports knowledge is one of the reasons why sports organizations have an outsize impact when they go green.

FORBES: Connect