Check out the latest green-lifestyle newsflashes in The Grist List [1]: U.S. manufacturers will begin selling biodegradable socks [2] made from corn [3] next year. A group of Southern California surfers is protesting a planned highway [4] that could damage a legendary break in California known as Trestles. Sony Pictures just picked up “EV Confidential,” a whodunit documentary about the death of the electric car [5](green celeb Tom Hanks is all over the trailer). And the foxy young eco-warrior Thomas Hand – of Project BioBus [6]and the Road to Detroit [7] campaign – now has a spot of honor in Cosmopolitan magazine's 2005 Bachelor Blowout [8]. Hand describes his love of the outdoors and why a single flower bests a dozen roses.