+Energy | March 3, 2011

If You Must Build A Mega Dam: Lessons for Brazil from China

By Krista Mahr

Last week environmental activists in Brazil – and Hollywood – were celebrating a victory over what is slated to become the world’s third largest hydroelectric plant. A Brazilian court in Para state ruled last Friday that the state-backed project, key to President’s Dilma Rousseff’s infrastructure push to support Brazil’s continued economic growth, has not met [...]

+Oil | September 29, 2010

Q&A: Avatar Director James Cameron on Oil Sands and Environmentalism

By Bryan Walsh

I’ve spent the last few days flying, coptering and driving around northern Alberta with the director James Cameron, taking a close look at the massive oil sands developments in the Canadian province. (As this 2008 piece from TIME shows, Alberta’s underground oil sands reserves have made Canada a world player on the global energy stage—it’s [...]