Latest posts by João Miguel Lima from January, 2011
Brazil: Belo Monte Dam returns to the spotlight
The Brazilian government expressed its wish to start building the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in 2011. Immediately, a virtual mobilization against the project broke out. In spite of the intense flow of information on the Internet and other media, clarifications on the socio-environmental impacts of Belo Monte are still to be provided by the government.
Africa: History of the continent for download
The multimedia collective tás a ver? recommends [pt] the General History of Africa Collection for those eager to “understand the true history of the African continent“. The 8 volumes were recently published in Portuguese, and UNESCO has made this version available [pt] free for download.
