The Week in Pictures: A Giant Rat-Eating Plant, Chevy Volt's 230 MPG Rating, Woodstock's 40th Anniversary, and More
by Emma Grady, New York, NY 
on 08.14.09
From a giant rat-eating plant to Woodstock's 40th year anniversary, a lot happened this week. General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson announced that the Chevy Volt gets a rating of 230 miles per gallon in city driving; thieves broke into the cash for clunkers graveyard in Germany resulting in 50,000 stolen clunkers; we found out how to make our own inexpensive solar panels with broken solar cells from eBay, and that germ-laden flip flops could kill us, gross! Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddball stories.
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