Golden Osetra caviar perfected Big Eye Tuna atop fresh bergamot and a froth of green apple.
Good Riesling, of which there are many in Germany, is replete with notes of crisp green apple, lime, nectarine, ripe pear and spice.
Michael Krane, president of Green Apple Barter Services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says his company has brokered everything from breast implants to college tuition to a horse.
New York is sometimes viewed as being so much more energy-efficient than suburban or rural areas that some have started to call it The Big Green Apple.
Apple Corps, which depicts a green apple as its logo, argued the computer-maker had breached a 1991 agreement that limited the use of each other's symbols to music and computing respectively.
Also on Flickr, "Green My Apple" is a Greenpeace-led pressure group of Mac devotees who want Apple to make more environmentally-friendly computers.
The Beatles changed the name of their company that oversaw their business interests to Apple in 1967, and released most of their later albums on the Apple Records label, with its distinctive labeling--a green-skinned Apple on the A-side and the halved apple for the B-side.
Still, they suggest other computer makers are making greater strides toward green business operations than Apple.
Turkish designer Fevzi Karaman is developing an apple-green credenza that opens up to reveal a kitchen sink, a stove top, even a trash can.
The chart below show search interest in Nokia (blue), Apple (green), iPhone (yellow) and Lumia (red) over the last 90 days, culled from Google Trends.
At home, in the long hooded cloak she wears as a Druid priest, Cat stands at a small altar on which is the sculpted form of a woman, green leaves and an apple.
"Chalk it up to effective marketing, " said Michael Greeson, president of the Diffusion Group, of Apple's green reputation.
So the city will not be able to purchase Apple desktops and laptops unless Apple gets the green certification again.
Competitors and environmentalists, however, say Apple's green efforts have less to do with cleaning up its products and manufacturing and more to do with marketing.
Both Tony Fadell, the so-called father of the iPhone who left Apple to explore green technology, and Andy Rubin, the overlord of Android, both worked at General.
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Last month Apple made an interesting green business decision when it backed out of the EPEAT green electronics certification program.
Determining Apple's "green-ness" is difficult because much of the information reported to authorities, like the Environmental Protection Agency, is provided voluntarily.
The apparent difference between Apple's environmental record and its green rhetoric has prompted ire among some of its competition.
The green was achieved despite another weak performance out of Apple (AAPL), down -4.6% and hitting a fresh 52-week low.
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For the uninitiated, Apple Corps' logo is of a ripe green Granny Smith.
The first bit damaging of news was about Apple's decision to dump an international green certification system that is used by the U.S. government to determine whether its agencies can or cannot purchase a product.
"Apple is... guilty of using 'green' as a marketing ploy, rather than making green a core part of their business practices, " said Stephen Stokes, vice president of business and climate change at AMR Research Inc.
Apple would not say why it had left the green certification system, but it was widely speculated that its new line of MacBook Pro laptops, which had not been reviewed by EPEAT, might be too difficult to recycle to earn the certification.
Along with cultivating Current, Gore, 64, joined the board of Apple in 2003 and served as a senior adviser on green issues to Google beginning in 2001, three years before the company went public.
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The Nakd Apple Pie was the only bar in the study that did not contain any added sugar, while the Alpen Light Apple and Sultana was the only one to have three green traffic lights for fat, saturated fat and salt.
Apple declined to comment for this story, but Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in an October report on Apple's Web site that his company was committed to developing green practices.
"We see Windows 8 as opportunity for all the PC manufacturers to reclaim the huge ground that they have lost to Apple and some of the other Android tablet makers, " Chris Green, technology analyst at Davies Murphy Group Europe, told the BBC.
For its part, Apple reiterated its pledge to make its centers in California and North Carolina green by Feb. 2013.
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You can ripen very green avocados at home by putting them in a paper bag with a banana or an apple.
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Before panicking however, you should note that several stores, particularly in Apple's home of California, who did not have stock yesterday are showing green for Tuesday.
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