Green Cross

Green Cross may refer to:

  • Green Cross of Florida Flag, a flag with a green cross on a white ground flown at Fort San Carlos on Amelia Island in Florida by Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish-born soldier of fortune, who seized the island in June of 1817. The flag played a part in an historical episode called the Amelia Island Affair.
  • Green Cross (Japan), a Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • Green Cross Code, a traffic safety education program in the United Kingdom
  • Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev
  • The Green Cross is the logo for the National Safety Council in the United States
  • Green Cross flags are the industrial safety/health flags in Japan. They are not related to the Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • The Green Cross Code Man was played by David Prowse
  • Green Cross (chemical warfare), a group of World War I chemical warfare agents
  • C.D. Green Cross (1916–1985), a Chilean football (soccer) club currently defunct
  • Club Atlético Green Cross, an Ecuadorian football (soccer) club
  • A common symbol used in the medical marijuana community
  • Retail Pharmacies/Chemists in Europe and elsewhere may display a green cross

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or cross:

    “I’ll tell you one thing. If a little green man pops out at me I’m shooting first and asking questions later.”
    —Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)

    “Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)