A funny thought, why the color Green?

[Magnum]

I was looking at H and N pellets today and noticed they have a "Green Pellet" everything has a $ green name nowadays!!! I know they mean "lead free" and not the color:)  I may be way over thinking or off on a tangent...but a funny thought came to me,  why say green at all when its actually a color? Then thought the word like green's  meaning is now altered forever, like many others words have been!
     I know this may be silly  and not sure it matter a whole lot but  ..  I dont get how everyone slowly buys into changing the meaning of words  like this  Green = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green. Whats next?

[CIGRSMKR]

Green is symbolic with trees and plants the CO2 scrubbers of our planet.  I'm jumping on board and putting a 7.5 kilowatt photo-voltaic system on my house as soon as my state rebate application is accepted.
It will provide me with a net zero electric bill and a tidy sum profit selling solar renewable enery credits SRECs. BTW I have been an electrician for the past 20 years so labor cost is zip.

[VINNY]

It is another way to market the pellets thats all. Everybody advertises "led free" pellets, nobody advertises " green " pellets. I personally hate that term. If you sell " biodegradable" or  "enviornmentally safe" buttwipe, and the product next to yours on the shelf say's " green" buttwipe, it will out sell your's. It's just the "in" word for the moment, and people want to be part of the "in" crowd. Come on man, you wouldn't want to go to the checkout without your products saying "green" on the label, would you?! That is just UNCOOL!. [ yes, that was meant sarcastically,but NOT directed at you.]