Surfing Alpacas, Owning the Rights to Your Food, Google and Your Energy Info, and More!

Surfer Teaches an Alpaca to Catch a Wave (Video) Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi loves to ride the waves — so much so, in fact, that he's made it his mission to share the experience with different animals he comes across. Over the years, Pianezzi has become quite accustomed to teaching all manner of furry and feathered friends how to surf, but for the first time yesterday he hit the waves with an alpaca. Is it such a good idea? Green Beer: TreeHugger Tested, Planet Approved (Slideshow) Sitting outside with a cold beer is an iconic moment of the spring and summer. So, we present a small collection of some of our favorite green beers to add to your shopping list this season.

Could Health Care Bill's Passage Endanger Energy Reform? There's one major way that it feasibly could — and that's if the passage of a health care bill causes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to jump ship on energy reform efforts. Josh Nelson grapples with this possibility in a good piece over at EnviroKnow, noting the senator's threats to bail on energy reform if the Democrats use the reconciliation process to pass parts of the health care legislation.

Google PowerMeter's Adds Info Sharing — Is it Just What We Need, or TMI? A significant component to making home energy monitoring really catch on is the idea of making it into a competition by sharing energy consumption information. Google has apparently latched onto the idea as well, allowing users of their PowerMeter system to share energy consumption data with others. But is this just what we need to get people on board, or does it boarder on Too Much Information?

From Source to Spigot: Using Art to Illuminate Two Cities' Historical Water Supplies One city has been drawing its water from springs, streams, and reservoirs in a nearby forest since 375 AD; the other displaced four towns and six villages to establish its water supply in the 1930s. Despite their many differences, water unites Istanbul and Boston — as does residents' general lack of awareness about where it comes from, a situation that city-planning graduate student Linda Ciesielski set out to remedy with a public-art project she dubbed "Discrete Supply."

So, Um ... What Exactly Does a Vegan Eat? A Dozen Easy Ways to Enjoy Cruelty-Free Meals I've been a vegan for 15 years and I still get this question ... all the time: If you don't eat animals, what's left? To follow, I present just a tip of the plant-based iceberg (and I don't mean lettuce).

Convert Clothing Store Pulls Fashion Vendors Over to the Green Side Randy Brewer is the owner of Convert, a hip new clothing store in Berkeley, California. But this isn't the typical story about a clothing store that makes only the most sustainable choices for its racks. No, Brewer is taking it a step further. Rather than hunting out only sustainable fashion vendors, he's making the fashion vendors he loves become sustainable.

Life as You've Never Seen It, on Planet Green Life, the groundbreaking documentary series from the Discovery Channel and the BBC will be simulcast on Planet Green. Life, premiering March 21, captures the most incredible moments in the plant and animal world — and you can catch the action on Planet Green. Who Owns The Rights To The Food You Eat? Monsanto's genetically engineered "Roundup Ready" seed line now accounts for 93 percent of the soybeans and 82 percent of the corn produced in the US, according to a recent Bloomberg article. Should you be concerned? As Michael Pollan has pointed out, corn is the "keystone species of the industrial food system, along with its sidekick, soybean."

Be a Philanthropist! 10 Fantastic Eco-Minded Projects In Need of a Kickstart Creative thinkers are everywhere and they have countless projects that can inspire others and improve the world...if only they could get the funding needed to make it happen. That's where Kickstarter steps in. Think of Kickstarter like a Kiva — tiny loans for people in need. Only rather than loaning funds for a business venture, you're giving money to fund really neat projects! From documentaries to urban farms, from sustainable buildings to teaching kids, the projects are all over the board, and all in need of a little help to get going.

High Speed Trains To Run From Beijing to London It is the most extraordinary map from Transport Politic; those yellow lines are proposed high speed rail links through India and Iran, right through to the European high speed rail network so that one can cruise right into London, at about 155 MPH the whole way.