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The goal of CoalSwarm is to build a shared information resource on coal is an effort to create an informational tool on coal for students, journalists, activists, public officials, and the general public.^[1]

Contents 1 You can help! 2 Articles that need work 3 How to Add Information to a Wiki like CoalSwarm 4 Quotes 5 Contact 6 Fiscal sponsor 7 Advisors and staff 7.1 Advisory Committee 7.2 Staff 8 Resources and articles 8.1 Related Sourcewatch articles 8.2 External articles 8.3 References

You can help!

CoalSwarm welcomes volunteers who can help compile information and make this a more comprehensive and accessible resource. To get involved, contact coalSwarm's editor, Kaethin Prizer, at the following email address:

Kaethin AT yahoo.com (substitute an "@" sign for the "AT")

Articles that need work

A list of articles that need to be written or improved, including suggstions on what might be included, can be found here: Talk:Articles on coal

How to Add Information to a Wiki like CoalSwarm

Since coalSwarm is a wiki, anyone can contribute to it by adding or fixing information. This video shows how a wiki works.

Like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, coalSwarm expands and improves as more people participate. But if anyone can edit coalSwarm, how can you trust the information? The answer is that SourceWatch, the sponsor of coalSwarm, requires that facts posted on the wiki be referenced. This allows users of the site to track every assertion back to its source.

Ready to get started? Step One: Request a login name and password by clicking "Create New Account" in the upper-right corner of your screen. Step Two: Click on how to edit a page

Quotes

"Coal Swarm is a great example of a loose community united by a common cause developing a shared resource to do their collective work better."^[2]

"For the more academic activist, look to CoalSwarm, the one-stop-shop wiki for all the dirt you need on coal. Coal Swarm is an effort to create transparent, group-source information about the coal industry: tracking plant announcements, political maneuvers, lawsuits and more. As one supporter explained: 'It’s putting information once the province of lobbyists into local activist’s hands.'"^[3]

Contact

CoalSwarm 2418 - 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415-206-0906 "About CoalSwarm"

Fiscal sponsor

CoalSwarm is a project of the Earth Island Institute.^[4]

Advisors and staff

Accessed June 2008: ^[5]

Advisory Committee

• Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Trust, Flagstaff, Arizona
• Leslie Glustrom, Clean Energy Action, Boulder, Colorado
• John Grimes, San Francisco, California
• Earl Killian, Los Altos Hills, California
• Nancy LaPlaca, Energy Justice Network, Denver, Colorado
• Sheldon Rampton, Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin
• John Smillie, Western Organization of Resource Councils, Billings, Montana
• John Stauber, Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin
• Caroline Tauxe, Syracuse, New York
• Mark Trechock, Dakota Resource Council, Dickinson, North Dakota
• Elisa Young, Meigs Citizen Action Now!, Racine, Ohio

Staff

• Ted Nace, director
• Kaethin Prizer, CoalSwarm wiki editor

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch articles

• Capitol Power Plant

External articles

• "Swarming the Climate Catastrophe," Justice Rising, August 2008
• "The Scope for Direct Action on Coal," Queensland Climate Movement Summit, November 11, 2008
• "CoalSwarm," Advocacy 2.0
• Judith Siers-Poisson, "Introducing the CoalSwarm," PR Watch, 3/21/08
• "The Anti-Coal Movement's SF Nerve Center," SFgate.com 3/13/09
• Rachel Barge, "Media Savvy Youth are Blogging Coal to Death," SolveClimate, March 31, 2009
• Mark Engler, "Climate Disobedience," Mother Jones, Salon.com, August 11, 2009
• Mark Engler "The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through," Yes! Magazine, December 1, 2009

References

1. ↑ About, CoalSwarm, accessed June 19, 2008.
2. ↑ "CoalSwarm," Advocacy 2.0, accessed 11/11/08
3. ↑ Rachel Barge, "Media Savvy Youth are Blogging Coal to Death," SolveClimate, March 31, 2009
4. ↑ About, CoalSwarm, accessed June 19, 2008.
5. ↑ Advisors and Staff, CoalSwarm, accessed June 19, 2008.