its hard to find possitive associations for green?

Helen, I'm surprised to hear you ask this question, given where you work. Corporations who want to come across as having a positive environmental record, without necessarily doing anything to benefit or refrain from harming the environment, engage in greenwashing - clearly green's got a positive association in this case.

And I refuse to believe that belM's comment about the butter wasn't a set-up - it was just too good to be true. And messy