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Causes: Environment, Environmental Education
Mission: Microleadership is at heart a leadership development organization. Its focus includes education on the science, the stakes and the solutions to global warming. Its strategy includes creating grassroots political momentum for the dramatic governmental policies that are needed, such as a carbon tax with 100% refund and united nations oversight and enforcement of greenhouse gas reductions. It will train and support ordinary citizens to lead in their lives on these issues. One of the niches where microleadership can succeed is to be a bridge between scientists who thoroughly understand the risks and realities of global warming and ordinary citizens who get only a partial picture depending on the media bias in their communities. The science is in, and it's overwhelming. It's the political will that is missing. Microleadership will help people move along a leadership continuum on global warming. First must come the basic science behind global warming. According to a recent public opinion pol
Programs: Activities in the past included training 15 students each year to do public speaking on global warming in the community. One year these students gave 36 presentations to 16 different community organizations in front of a total of 2,000 attendees. Organizations included churches,, job corps, boys and girls clubs, several high schools and nasa goddard institute for space studies.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.