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Gregory Green (artist)
Greg(ory) Green(e) may refer to: * Greg Green, Spokane-area based businessman and entrepreneur * Greg Greene, a 1997 Alberta Social Credit Party candidate for the Calgary-Nose Creek provincial electoral district * Gregory Greene, Toronto-based director of 2004 documentary film ''The End of Suburbia ''The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream'' is a 2004 documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications for the suburban lifestyle, written and directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene. Descr ...'' * Gregory Green (musician), known as Grant Green, Jr. * Gregory Green (artist), see Nuclear weapons in popular culture {{human name disambiguation, Greene, Gregory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Green
Greg Green is a Spokane-area based businessman and entrepreneur who got his start in the technology industry in the mid-1980s. He is the founder of Tel-West (now part of XO Communications) and OneEighty Communications (acquired by Avista Corporation and renamed Avista Communications), and the President of Fatbeam, a fiber optic networks provider. Telecommunications industry beginnings Green began his technology industry ventures when he formed Tel-West, a telecommunications provider of telecommunications services (a competitive access provider), in 1984. In 1995, Tel-West was acquired by NEXTLINK, a Craig McCaw owned organization. Green was an early pioneer of competitive local exchange carriers, or CLECs, after the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As President of NEXTLINK Washington, now Communications, Green was a part of the senior management team that took NEXTLINK public and raising $400 million in 1997. After spending three more years with NEXTLINK, Green left in 1998 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary-Nose Creek
Calgary-Nose Creek was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1993 to 2004. History The Calgary-Nose Creek electoral district was created during the 1993 electoral boundary re-distribution from the Calgary-McKnight electoral district. The Calgary-Nose Creek electoral district would be dissolved in the 2003 Alberta boundary re-distribution and would be re-distributed into the Calgary-Mackay and Calgary-Nose Hill electoral districts. The riding was named for the Nose Creek that winds its way through the northern part of Calgary. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) Election results 1993 general election 1997 general election 2001 general election See also *List of Alberta provincial electoral districts Alberta provincial electoral districts are currently single member ridings that each elect one member to the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of Suburbia
''The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream'' is a 2004 documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications for the suburban lifestyle, written and directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene. Description The film is hosted by Canadian broadcaster Barrie Zwicker and features discussions with James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, Michael Ruppert, Julian Darley, Colin Campbell, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews. In 2007, Greene released a sequel called ''Escape from Suburbia''. Cast *Matthew Simmons, as himself * Richard Heinberg, as himself *Michael Ruppert, as himself *James Howard Kunstler, as himself * Steve Andrews, as himself * Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, as himself * Peter Calthorpe, as himself *Colin Campbell, as speaker * Dick Cheney, as himself (archive footage) * Julian Darley, as himself *Kenneth S. Deffeyes, as himself *Michael Klare, as himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Green (musician)
Gregory Green, known professionally as Grant Green Jr., is a jazz guitarist and the eldest son of jazz guitarist Grant Green. He is a member of the group Masters of Groove with Bernard Purdie and Reuben Wilson. Born in St Louis, Missouri on August 4, 1955, Grant Green Jr. started playing guitar at the age of fourteen. In 1969 he moved to Detroit with his father, who died ten years later. His neighbors included Stevie Wonder's parents, Marvin Gaye, and members of the Four Tops. He has worked with Richard "Groove" Holmes, Leon Thomas, Jimmy McGriff, Lou Donaldson, and Lonnie Smith. Discography As leader * ''Back to the Groove'' (Paddle Wheel, 1997) * ''Jungle Strut'' (Venus, 1997 998 * ''Introducing G.G.'' (Jazzateria, 2002) * ''Thank You Mr. Bacharach'' (ZMI Records, 2022) * ''Thank You Mr. Bacharach Vol 1 and 2'' (ZMI Records, 2023) With Bernard Purdie and Reuben Wilson Reuben Wilson (born April 9, 1935) is a jazz organist. He performs soul jazz and acid jazz, and is b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Green (artist)
Greg(ory) Green(e) may refer to: * Greg Green, Spokane-area based businessman and entrepreneur * Greg Greene, a 1997 Alberta Social Credit Party candidate for the Calgary-Nose Creek provincial electoral district * Gregory Greene, Toronto-based director of 2004 documentary film ''The End of Suburbia ''The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream'' is a 2004 documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications for the suburban lifestyle, written and directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Gregory Greene. Descr ...'' * Gregory Green (musician), known as Grant Green, Jr. * Gregory Green (artist), see Nuclear weapons in popular culture {{human name disambiguation, Greene, Gregory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Weapons In Popular Culture
Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age". Images of nuclear weapons The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the "atomic age", and the bleak pictures of the bombed-out cities released shortly after the end of World War II became symbols of the power and destruction of the new weapons (it is worth noting that the first pictures released were only from distances, and did not contain any human bodies—such pictures would only be released in later years). The first pictures released of a nuclear explosion—the blast from the Trinity test—focused on the fireball itself; later pictures would focus primarily on the mushroom cloud that followed. After the United States began a regular program of nuclear testing in the late 1940s, continuing through the 1950s (and matched by the Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
