Check out the latest green-lifestyle newsflashes in The Grist List: U.S. manufacturers will begin selling biodegradable socks made from corn next year. A group of Southern California surfers is protesting a planned highway 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 (green celeb Tom Hanks is all over the trailer). And the foxy young eco-warrior Thomas Hand – of Project BioBus and the Road to Detroit campaign – now has a spot of honor in Cosmopolitan magazine's 2005 Bachelor Blowout. Hand describes his love of the outdoors and why a single flower bests a dozen roses.