CoalSwarm a Nerve Center for the Green Energy Movement [1]
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The San Francisco Chronicle's website profiled [3] "Ted Nace [4], director of the CoalSwarm [5] website and an important part of the anti-coal movement that has been in the news in recent weeks." CoalSwarm is a "nerve center," a partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy within the SourceWatch [6] wiki. Nace explains, "Anybody can post information. We've got 1500 articles on the [CoalSwarm] site, and it's been accessed hundreds of thousands of times. We have a separate article on each proposed coal plant [7] and each existing plant [8], and whenever anything happens having to do with that plant, we post the news. Everything has to have a footnote to a published source, so people don't have to take our word for it. A movement needs information to run, and we're trying to put information at people's fingertips." SolveClimate blog also lauds CoalSwarm [9] as "the one-stop-shop wiki for all the dirt you need on coal. ... As one supporter explained: 'It's putting information once the province of lobbyists into local activists' hands.'" CMD's SourceWatch [10] wiki also hosts a major portal on Climate Change [11] and the upcoming COP15 [12] climate treaty conference.