CoalSwarm is a wiki with a purpose quite similar to that of this site:
“James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Institute, has said that ending emissions from coal “is 80% of the solution to the global warming crisis.” Fortunately, economical alternatives to coal are now at hand, and around the world, over 350 citizen groups are working to promote a transition away from coal. The mission of CoalSwarm is to assist this movement by building a constantly expanding body of information that everyone in the movement can use.”
They are sponsored by San Francisco’s Earth Island Institute.
Those who are interested in this issue should consider taking a look at the information they have up – for instance, on coal in Canada, and possibly adding to it. They have a page on how people can help.
Coal Moratorium Now! is an affiliated site, started by Ted Nace. He is also the author of Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal.
Some useful CoalSwarm coal plant wiki pages and compilation pages — now with sortable tables and Google search
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Attention coal nerds! Below are some compilations for those doing research on existing and proposed coal plants. I’m happy to report that MediaWiki now allows us to have a sort button for CoalSwarm’s wiki tables. This makes all of the tables more useful: for example, now you can sort coal plant retirements by plant name, state, or company. There are also individual profiles, including coordinates and Google maps, for 675 existing U.S. coal plants. Hopefully we’ll soon have profiles for all Australian and Canadian plants as well. (For information on other topics such as mines, coal waste, and protests, see the CoalSwarm portal page.)
Another development with the site is that we now have a real Google search bar for CoalSwarm content — the most requested feature that was previously lacking. Yay!