A new craze has been sweeping the West, but no worries, the rich and famous haven’t decided to abandon the idea of adopting African babies or anything radical. The need to go green has recently become the right thing to in the States, Canada, and Europe.  A primary front in the war against climate change (in the Hummer-friendly world, at least) is the cutting down of petroleum and diesel use as fuel.  There have been, and still are many approaches, and biofuels have become a big strategy in the campaign to go green and become more environmentally friendly, governments (including the American one) recently began to subsidise farmers who sell their crop to develop bio fuels instead of selling them for consumption – an effort to curb dependance on foreign oil, and to do the world some good.  Recently, the 34th G8 summit was held in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan – and one of the main concerns discussed was the global rise in the cost of living.  This is not just confined to oil – a more dangerous crisis for the inhabitants of the developing world has also arisen – the price of food.   What the summit concluded on was that the price of food increasing could be somewhat pinpointed to the fact that farmers in developed nations are enticed to sell their crops to bio fuel production, and this decision echoes in unison with global low harvests to form the primary reason for the food crisis.  (more…)