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@brobinson121.bsky.social
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local climate action / online education / sustainability in our curriculum / stained glass / bunnies / thrifting

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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Honored to have our state capital participating in the Local Climate Action Program this year. Three excellent students presented their findings for the City of Harrisburg's GHG inventory this morning. As we look ahead to the spring semester, we're excited to help the city reduce these emissions!
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Had a super productive day getting ready for our next LCAP cohort, taking @iclei-usa.bsky.social ClearPath 2.0 for a spin. This is a game changer for making it easier for local govs to engage in climate planning. The future is local. 🌎
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Met three of my Energy and Sustainability Policy students who journeyed to Happy Valley after completing their degrees online. All three of these fine students were also in my Local Climate Action Program this year. Excited to see all the ways they continue to make the world a better place now. 🌎💕🌎
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It's been a pleasure having the City of Allentown in our LCAP this year! www.psu.edu/news/impact/...
psu.edu
Two Penn State students help Allentown create city's first climate action plan | Penn State University
Penn State students LaKeisha Riley and Baylee Balogh are playing an instrumental role in helping the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, develop its first climate action plan.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Final LCAP presentation to Upper Providence Township on Monday. Carlin and Michael drafted a climate action plan complete with emissions forecasting and case studies of example actions from other communities.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Humbled and honored to receive Penn State's Community Engagement and Scholarship Award this year for our Local Climate Action Program. It might be my picture in that thumbnail, but it takes a village to save the climate. Colleagues, students, gov partners and more! Thanks for helping LCAP shine.
psu.edu
Climate action program earns Community Engagement and Scholarship Award   | Penn State University
Brandi Robinson, associate teaching professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, has received the 2025 Penn State Award for Community Engagement and Scholarship for her work on the Local Cl...
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Local Climate Action Program spring semester presentations to local govs are off to a great start! Grant Rowe and Ashley Curry presented to the Centre Region Climate and Sustainability committee just now and knocked it out of the park! 🌎💕🙂 The future is local.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Friday night I had the honor of presenting Energy and Sustainability Policy graduate, Kate Robeson-Grubb with our Distinguished Alumni Award. Kate has gone on to a career in sustainability in local government and ik so glad we work together now in the Local Climate Action Program.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Disgusting, reckless, misguided, cruel. I am sad for our children and grandchildren who will shoulder a larger burden of climate impacts so that wealthy people can get wealthier.
epa.gov
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Kelli is one of only a handful of students who did both her undergraduate and graduate degree work with us through Penn State World Campus. I had the honor of being her adviser for both undergrad and grad and supervising some awesome local climate projects she did!
worldcampus.psu.edu
Online energy and sustainability policy programs changed this grad’s life - Penn State World Campus
Kelli Volkomer earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree and now works in the energy industry.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Women will save the climate, one community at a time. Ashley - citizen volunteer on Kennett Twp EAC Alison - Penn State World Campus student; Kennett resident Brandi - Penn State teaching faculty; co-director Local Climate Action Program
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Look for the good news when you can. ☀️
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What your feed needs is a little lop eared bunny soaking up some February sun.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
On the heels of the hottest year on record, we're scrubbing any mention of 'climate' and 'GHGs'. We're choosing to ignore impacts as we anticipate future infrastructure needs. Soooo...is this the great again part?
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Hunkering down at the local level" is exactly my plan too.
nytimes.com
How the Climate Movement Is Changing Tactics After Trump’s Win
Faced with a president-elect who has called global warming a “scam,” activists are changing their strategies and pushing a message of hope.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tomorrow's the day! Stop by EES Building on campus and have pizza with us, or warm up your own lunch and tune in via Zoom.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A tiny sliver of good climate news this week.
reuters.com
Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Learn more about our Local Climate Action Program. Everyone wins - students gain transferable skills in GHG accounting and climate policy, the local govs get project support, and @peterdbuck.bsky.social and I? Well, we just get to be a small piece of it all and help our neighbors around PA.
iee.psu.edu
Empowering people to address climate change, one community at a time
Penn State's Local Climate Action Program is a collaborative initiative that empowers communities to take action against climate change by engaging students, faculty, and local officials in developing...
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join us next Wednesday 1/29 to learn more about COP29 in Baku.
psu.edu
Panel discussion will explore outcomes, key takeaways from COP29 | Penn State University
The delegation of Penn State faculty and students who went to Azerbaijan for the United Nations’ annual climate meeting known as the Conference of Parties, COP29, will take part in a panel discussion ...
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm in.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yes. Subnational climate action has always been a necessary component of meaningful emissions reductions in the US. Before the IRA, federal action to lead on climate was woefully inadequate, so in some ways we're used to relying on local and state efforts. Doesn't make this sting less, though.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We all knew that executive action on the Paris Agreement was coming. Did not make it hurt less. I'll roll up my sleeves and get to work tomorrow. But I just can't with today. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time
In 2021, Biden had rejoined 2015 treaty that seeks to curb climate crisis effects after Trump first pulled out in 2017
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Things are still moving in the wrong direction.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
When Alison Bucher-Rubilar presented her LCAP GHG inventory results to Kennett Twp last month, a reporter was in the audience. We talked about why no matter who is in the White House, local climate action will continue.
chestercounty.com
Environmental group partners with Penn State on township’s greenhouse emission report | Chester County Press
‘Climate change is a global problem with local impacts.'
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Great work by my World Campus students, Amanda Theodorson and Lauren Moylan, who just presented the findings of their communitywide greenhouse gas emissions inventory for Haverford Township to the Haverford Board of Commissioners. Excited now to help implement some of the township's CAP strategies!
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Thinking of all of my Penn State World Campus students trying to take my human dimensions of climate change class (GEOG 438W) from Southern California right now. Climate impacts getting in the way of learning about climate impacts.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited to start our spring semester today at Penn State where students in our Local Climate Action Program will work with municipal govt partners from around the state to advance local climate policy and planning initiatives. The future is local, friends!
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Another year, another broken record. The top ten warmest years on record have all occurred in my middle schooler's lifetime. What sort of future are handing our children?
apnews.com
Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming threshold
Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/01/2025
As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area. It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.
A pie chart showing the area burned by the 20 largest wildfires on record from 1900 through 2021 in California.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Turns out 18 inch doll accessories are also New Holland Lop accessories.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Subnational efforts will pick up US slack.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
My incredibly talented student, Kelli Volkomer crocheted this stunning climate stripes shawl for me. 🤯 Congratulations on your graduation, Kelli! The climate is lucky to have students like you! #showyourstripes
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This semester's crop of Back to the Future assignments to imagine our climate reality of 2050 trends largely hopeful but pragmatic. Most students think we're going to make meaningful progress to avert the worst impacts and they're feeling hopeful about the future. Not bad considering the election!
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
So proud of my student, Alison Bucher-Rubilar for her excellent presentation last night to the Kennett Twp EAC. She walked them through the GHG inventory she's done for the township, talked about our next steps, and answered their thoughtful questions so well. The future is local, friends!
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I'm on my way home from Baku, hoping that the final texts come closer to what's needed to address the climate crisis and gross inequities it's already created.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lidy Nacpil of Demand Climate Justice: We will not accept a bad deal here. We can't commit to climate action without finance. Finance from the global north is necessary for reparations of historical emissions that have caused this crisis.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Every year we say that next year is the year we need decisive action. 2030 is around the corner and the window for 1.5 is closing.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yes. This. It's not about whether we have the money. It's whether we have the ambition to spend the money wisely. It's 1% of annual GDP. It's not *that* much when you think of it that way. Discontinue fossil fuel subsidies, and that certainly frees up some pennies.
m.independent.ie
Mary Robinson hits out at Vatican and other countries for blocking progress at Cop29 climate talks
Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson has criticised the Vatican, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan for their behaviour at the Cop29 climate summit.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Working with cities and small local communities offers hope in a changing climate.
independent.co.uk
Cities are showing what climate leadership looks like
When it comes to meeting the challenge of man-made climate change, mayors are streets ahead of national leaders in cutting emissions and implementing innovative environmental schemes, says Sadiq Khan
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The world waits for the NCQG.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This session is exploring the role of the new collective quantified goal (NCQC) to unlock NDCs for phasing out fossil fuels. Joseph Sikulu, 350.org reminds us that the values of stewardship and care central to indigenous knowledge is the framework from which climate strategies should *start*. #cop29
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Another day in the Blue Zone at #COP29. Tensions are high as the world wonders what the finance commitments will be by the end of this week. The moral imperative is clear.
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Brandi Robinson @brobinson121.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Climate finance commitments and ambitious NDCs are needed. Tim is up, we must act now.
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