In the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between the binary extremes of black and white it’s not gray, as you might expect, but green. And within green’s bandwidth there are more tonal variations than any other color can make.

Maybe this is why—envy, naivete, and money aside—green is generally synonymous with good. Green is paradise for Islam, luck for the Irish, and a healthy planet for environmentalists. Whereas the industrial past was gray, the future is green. LA+ GREEN explores the green spectrum from plants to politics and from art to science, with contributions from:

NOAM CHOMSKY
ROBERT D. BULLARD
KASSIA ST. CLAIR
NEIL M. MAHER
ROB LEVINTHAL
SONJA DÜMPELMANN
PEDER ANKER
ROBERT MCDONALD
PARKER SUTTON
TAMARA TOLES O’LAUGHLIN
NICHOLAS PEVZNER
MICHAEL MARDER
SHANNON MATTERN
MICHAEL GEFFEL
BRIAN OSBORN
JULIAN BOLLETER
CRISTINA RAMALHO
ROBERT FREESTONE
RICHARD WELLER
MICHAEL GEFFEL
BRIAN OSBORN
JULIAN RAXWORTHY