Indexing the "clean coal" blogosphere.
Building Coal is Dirty and its affiliate Coal is Clean was a very research-intensive process and in the process we came across a lot of great people and organizations blogging on clean coal.
I thought a list of the Top 75 bloggers - based on Technorati rankings, frequency of posting and cross-referenced with a Google blog search of the last 3 months - who write on the subject of clean coal would be helpful for anyone researching the issue.
These are, of course, the Top 75 bloggers critical of clean coal:
1. TreeHugger3. EcoGeek
5. Gristmill
8. Celsias
10. DeSmogBlog
11. Climate Progress
12. The Seminal
14. SolveClimate
15. Green Daily
16. Larvatus Prodeo
17. Climate Ark
18. Energy Smart
20. The Sietch
21. GoodCleanTech
22. Leisure Guy
23. TakePart
25. Blue GrassRoots
26. Enviroblog
27. Texas Startup
29. Socratic Gadfly
30. Greenpeace UK
32. Red Tory
33. Pink Slip
35. Ecoscraps
36. PA Pundits
37. EarthFirst
39. Scruffy Dan
40. WattHead
41. The Understory
42. From on High
43. Zaproot
44. Greensblog
45. Mound of Sound
47. Rising Tide
48. Texas Observer
49. OneClimate
50. TalkGreen
52. My Green Element
53. What's Required
54. A Sibilant Intake of Breath
56. Foreign Policy - Climate Change
57. Chesapeake Climate Action Blog
58. Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
59. Eco-Friendly Life and Toys
60. Samadhisoft
61. Keep Green Going
62. Green is Good
63. Green Energy War
65. The Rural Blog
68. Alan Gregory's Conservation News
69. Bangla Praxis
70. Eco-Cide
71. Temprya
72. New Energy News
73. The Misanthropic Prinicple
74. Teotwawkian
75. LA Greenbean
Although I tried to make this list as comprehensive as possible and spent about 5 hours putting it together, the blogosphere is big, so please let me know of anyone else that I should add to this list.










I think you could check this out
Hi there,
we fight for the same fundamental rights as you.
We're no coal citizens ("nocoke" movement) from Italy.
http://noalcarbone.blogspot.com
Thanks for your great job.
There is a strong need to build an international web of collaboration between free citizens
especially on the medical side, to share the most important informations to block the coal.
Take a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdv1ciQtMjg
and:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lorenzo.fortunati/BersaniEnelCarbone
(Enel is the bigger powerplants builder in Italy. Fundamentally, it's still a monopolist in the italian energy maket).
At present, our fight in the north of Lazio (the region in the centre of Italy where Rome is) is against the conversion of the big Enel's TVN (2 GW) from the old oil to the dirty coal. Our fight is based on legal ways (we've found violation of laws, health right, corruption, unscientific environmental valutation for the impact of the plant etc.), and we try to unite our forces in italian territory,
Coal still covers a quite small part of our energy mix, but politicians and lobbies want to bring the coal quote to 50% in the total. A suicide. We wanna support the development of renewable energies and energy saving technologies and lifestyles.
In our places there are many pollution sources:
Civitavecchia: Enel's TVN (reconverting to coal), TirrenoPower (turbogas)
Montalto di Castro (19 miles from Civitavecchia): Enel's & Edison's "Alessandro Volta" (turbogas). Plus an old nuclear plant never
Total: 7 Gwh
Plus the biggest turistic harbour of Mediterranean, still growing, and some near cement works.
But the mediatic power of energy lobbies is huge.
In the north of Italy (Porto Tolle), the coal conversion of a powerplant very similar to the one we're fighting against in Civitavecchia seems now blocked, thanks of the findings of laws breaking and the proximity to a natural reserve.
On Porto Tolle:
http://www.greenpeace.org/italy/news/portotolle
Check this out too:
http://www.bi-bigben.de/ (german)
BYE!!
International posters
Thanks for the reminder, that we are looking for people in the EU who might be interested in updating all of us over here on coal industry activities from time to time. Let me know if you're interested.
You can go through out contact page - all the messages go to me as the editor and I read them all!
I wonder how many people
Indeed in the life of this
Indeed in the life of this world, we can not escape the disease. However, no matter what, we must try to suppress the disease to the lowest level. Check the details
More green blogs
Great list of blogs dealing with "clean coal".. Just wanted to mention Best Green Blogs which also has a good selection of green and sustainable themed blogs that deal with alternative energy many more similar green topics of interest to anyone interested in the health of the environment.
Yes, I agree with this!
Thanks
Is the one you're talking about? http://www.bestgreenblogs.com/
Disclosure
This comment is coming at you from blog number 67 on that list.
In case anyone ever makes it far enough down the list to find me, I just want to make sure I'm transparent. While I am critical of clean coal and skeptical of clean coal, I work for a venture investment firm, and one of our portfolio companies scrubs coal emissions for a living (NOX, SOX, mercury).
Maybe we're doing the wrong thing by channeling investment dollars into clean coal technologies, but I think of it as the practical thing to do. People are burning coal, and better to clean those emissions well than not to.
It's similar in its imperfect practicality, in my opinion, to providing clean needles to heroin addicts. It's not a real solution, but it prevents big problems from getting bigger.
needles, heroin, coal
Jake De Grazia I'm not with you.
You say that clean coal is
"similar in its imperfect practicality, in my opinion, to providing clean needles to heroin addicts. It's not a real solution, but it prevents big problems from getting bigger."
You have to think more deeply about this problem: the similarity you're proposing's wrong.
clean coal technologies are at the moment just another way to make the coal business grow and grow, but the huge problems it causes to Earth involves all mankind, present and future. You cannot say the same about clean needles & heroin addicts. The only way to fight drugs is to fight mafia & international businesses on drugs.
Anyone who contributes to the coal business is just guilty, the cannot be no excuse for this. Althought i mean that even the man who doesnt care about his everyday actions is as guilty as you.
Thanks
Thanks for the guernsey in your list, Kevin. We absolutely must work together across the planet on this issue, and sharing these links is a great way of doing so.
I absolutely agree
Thanks for the link!
Kevin,
Thanks for the link to my Blog at Samadhisoft. Much appreciated.
I would like to say that you probably linked to me on the strength of the piece I posted here:
http://samadhisoft.com/2008/06/15/mounting-costs-slow-the-push-for-clean...
This piece was pointing out that while most everyone would like to see 'clean coal' arrive, many of the current initiatives to demonstrate clean coal have faltered badly and, as Daniel M. Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, “It’s a total mess.”
So, while I applaud the 'idea' of clean coal, I am skeptical of the 'reality' and will remain so until we see that it is more than just a PR distraction put forth by those invested in coal to confuse the public and maintain profits.
Cheers!
Dennis
Clean coal
I am not critical of genuinely clean coal, though I doubt that such a thing will ever exist. The whole life cycle of coal needs to be considered, from mine to smokestack, and both greenhouse gasses and other pollutants need to be taken into account.
I don't even doubt that clean coal is possible. I just suspect that it will be too costly for commercial deployment. Coal is only cheap when someone else is paying the costs associated with the pollution.
Out of curiosity, who is
Out of curiosity, who is paying for this site?
Dirty Air Dirty Coal and Polluted Streams
Hi,I live in Eastern Kentucky,where Coal is King,I would like everyone to know,how dirty
the Coal is in communities where the coal is mined,Everyone talks about the polluion from coal fired plants,that to is nasty.I just want people to not forget about the people where the coal is mined.We have many coal trucks every day come down off the mountain tops down thur our neigborhoods,sometimes as many as 100 loads a day at times 5 and 6 days a week.My front door is nomore than 15 feet from the road these trucks travel to coal preparation plant where the coal is cleaned by chemicals that eventually end up in our streams late at night,when no one is so called inspecting.Cancer in Eastern Ky.is very high.Please go to the roots of before coal fired power plants,go to where it really begans,at the mines,and it's effect on communities,Please don't forget us when people talk about about coal fired plant being nasty to the enviroment,I'm telling you it is very bad on our health and enviroment.Everyone turn's a blind eye and deaf ear to what really is going from it's origin.As I began to talk about the coal trucks that pass by my home and the home's of many people,they track mud,rock dust and coal dust and blow deisel smoke thur our communities,all which causes many kind's of cancer,do a search on each one and see for your self,they cause many kind's of cancer,we have been exposed to this for many year's.The people at cleancoal.org are seeing the real coal minning.I have exhausted my self with contacting state and federal people about these issue's,I have tryed to get other people to get interested form other parts of the U.S.with no luck.The Kentuckian's for the Commonweath,is one group but they really don't get no immediate help,they try to change the laws for years all the time it gets worse and worse.Please get help to HighSplint and Closplint Kentucky
Publish more artical's on the origin of coal and it effects on the people and enviroment.
Thank You Chuck
drugs
What's new besides that? Do you have something new? Of course they don't care about the environment... they care about making a profit.
This is a great list, but what about the Reality Campaign?
http://www.cleancoaltechnologiesinc.com/
It is the subject matter of
It is the subject matter of the post which attracts the anxious mind for the environment. Unfortunately, there are number of such elements in the world who keep confusing the mind for their own benefits. It is a very useful and informative post. Keep it up.
Prosecutors had hoped to
I am extremely glad to
I am extremely glad to notice so many bloggers blogging about this mythical concept of clean coal. It is not surprising to discover so many who are after this illusive concept.
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