There is CARMA, Carbon Monitoring for Action, that within the first two days of it’s existence has already been hit by 150,000 visitors since starting operation on November 14, 2007. Indeed, the news is spreading fast. I found out about this site from a mailing list I manage before I observed the Sierra Club blog. From CARMA’s about page:

At its core, Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) is a massive database containing information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide. Power generation accounts for 40% of all carbon emissions in the United States and about one-quarter of global emissions. CARMA is the first global inventory of a major, emissions-producing sector of the economy.

CARMA has a Google map interface to their database and so does the Sierra Club’s New Coal Plant Tracker that has a map in relation to their United States data. The tracker site allows you to find information about proposed coal plants that hopefully will not become contributors to the information found at CARMA.

And at http://www.ilovemountains.org, if you live in the Appalachia region of the United States like I do, you can find out which power plants in your area directly utilize mountain top removal (MTR) coal, and which ones indirectly utilize it at the myconnection page. And you guessed it, Google maps comes into play again.

All these sites are awesome. From the World, to the National, to the Regional level you obtain a close account about one of the major power sources responsible for Global Warming. This leaves the obvious question, what can be done? Stay tuned to this blog as I explore solutions and alternatives.