Chromotherapy
When one sleeps on a pea-green pillow, it prevents baldness
Green is the best color for pregnant women


New Age Trends
Power Beads
Green onyx empowers the wearer with confidence.


Feng Shui
Green eases absent-mindedness, nervousness and rudeness.
Green represents quietude, persistence, patience and hard work.


Cars
In Zimbabwe it is a requirement that all army cars and trucks that are a camouflage color (mixture of dull green and other earth colors) have their lights on all the time. A reader reported nearly having a collision with a green and grey colored SUV in broad daylight because he had failed to see it approach without its lights on. The lights enhance visibility and should be encouraged for all dull colored vehicles.

Green Facts

Approximately 5% - 8% of men and 0.5% of women of the world are born colorblind. People who are protans (red weak) and deutans (green weak) comprise 99% of this group.

Some European countries have outlined certain traffic light colors so that it is clear which is green and which is red, by the color that has a rectangle around it. Some states in the U.S. have placed diagonal lines through green traffic lights as an aid for the colorblind.

Signage: Green vs. Red Exit Signs

Green exit signs have an important advantage when there is smoke in the air (in other words, when a fire is burning). With red exit signs, it looks like a fire - firemen have actually rushed into burning buildings and tried to put out the signs! With a green sign, people know it isn't the fire itself but the way to safety.

Not only should Exit signs be Green to correspond to the established International Standard for Safety Signs since the early 70's but they should also have the International Standard Graphical symbol for exit as given in ISO 6309 and ISO/DIS 3864 Part 1 and Part 2. It is time to consider that all exit signs should be the same throughout the world. Time to wake up USA and join the International Community. (www.means-of-escape.com)

The color that won't go away, lime green (in all its shades from dead avocado to extra-terrestrial day glo) still permeates the world of fashion, furnishings and advertising in the U.S. Combinations of yellow-green and orange are also hot.