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Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Angra dos Reis (RJ) nuclear power plants, denouncing the Brazilian government’s decision to invest in building Angra 3 while neglecting the country’s vast wind energy potential. Rio de Janeiro, 07/04/2009. Image via Flickr by Greenpeace/Alex Carvalho. CC BY-SA 2.0. This article was originally published on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website from Sri Lanka. An edited version is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. In 1971, a group of activists set sail from Canada in an old fishing boat to protest …

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