Green energy allies or biofuel antagonists?

Latin America’s choice
Could the region lead the world in energy efficiency?

Start with a motion sensor
Biofuels get all the attention, but Brazil's energy policy succeeds thanks to efficiency, diversity and innovation

Private capital drives a green energy boom
IDB funds leverage investments in ethanol, biodiesel, wind, solar, hydroelectric and tidal energy

Quenching a thirst for electricity
How two of the IDB’s priority initiatives joined forces to tackle an energy crisis faced by Nicaragua’s water and sanitation provider

We want a sawmill... and the Internet, too
But can traditional knowledge coexist with Google?

Local people want change, but their way
Indigenous leader says government must protect against negative impacts

Heretics in the rainforest
Some insist that only megafirms can play a big role in protecting communities and ecosystems from the real dangers of change

Natural gas makes natural neighbors
A megaproject takes on the big job of safeguarding local communities and the environment in the Peruvian Amazon

Can an energy project save a rainforest?
Defying conventional assumptions, a vast natural gas project has helped to protect 1.5 million hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon

Local people on the lookout
Village recruits serve as eyes and ears to help ensure that energy development does not threaten their communities and their environment

View from a river bluff
Long-awaited network begins operations

Voyage up the Urubamba
Local leaders attend a meeting on protected area management

Keeper of the sanctuary
Community guard protects sacred indigenous reserve

A hemispheric opportunity
Ethanol won’t solve the world’s energy problems, but it could be a catalyst for trade and rural development throughout the Americas

A new house for US$530?
How an innovative Catholic charity has made home ownership a reality for 130,000 of Ecuador’s poorest families

Entrepreneur makes fuel from
native plant
New crop also helps check soil erosion

The mayor with 200,000 children
A local government transforms natural gas royalties into hundreds of projects to improve people's lives

Andean arboretum
Small farmers plant trees to protect their land and their livelihood

Between the market and the state
Three decades of electric power sector reform in Latin America