It’s not pretty, but a fact of life, gardens are rich pickings for thieves.

Authorities say that this is the first case they’ve seen involving hot ice.

Green Fashion Week is around the corner. We are gearing up for Thieves by Sonja den Elzen’s debut at New York’s GreenShows — where the Toronto-based sustainable brand will show their fall 2010 collection — with a few of our favorite pieces from fall 2009, click through for photos:
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Two guys on a motorcycle grab a woman’s handbag in Wenzou, China; a common enough event. What isn’t common is the reaction of a cyclist who saw the robbery; he calmly gets off his bike, picks it up and throws it at the thieves, knocking them off their motorbike.

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Germany’s cash for clunkers program is just as popular as the one here in the US–in fact, there are a lot of parallels between the two. Back in January when it first debuted, Germany’s program was such an unexpected success that it too ran out of funds and had to be approved for more. And like the program stateside, it has its share of critics for not doing enough to cut back on emissions. Unlike the program in the US, however, German thieves …Read the full story on TreeHugger