In the early 1970s the first political groups with green ideas appeared in Australia and New Zealand. The first political group that used the name 'green' was Die Grunen (the Greens) in Germany in the early 1980s.
What does it meanto be green? The most important thing for all greens is to protect the environment-the plants, the animals, the earth, and the sea. Other important things for many greens are controlling the number of people on the earth, and making life better for people without doing bad things to the environment.