Brandi Robinson
@brobinson121.bsky.social
local climate action / online education / sustainability in our curriculum / stained glass / bunnies / thrifting
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. 🌎
June 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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. 🌎
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. 🌎💕🌎
May 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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. 🌎💕🌎
It's been a pleasure having the City of Allentown in our LCAP this year!
www.psu.edu/news/impact/...
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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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April 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It's been a pleasure having the City of Allentown in our LCAP this year!
www.psu.edu/news/impact/...
www.psu.edu/news/impact/...
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.
April 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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.
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.
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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April 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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.
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.
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.
April 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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.
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.
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 Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
www.epa.gov
March 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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.
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!
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.
www.worldcampus.psu.edu
February 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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!
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
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
February 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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
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
Look for the good news when you can. ☀️
The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China.
They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.
They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.
February 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Look for the good news when you can. ☀️
What your feed needs is a little lop eared bunny soaking up some February sun.
February 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What your feed needs is a little lop eared bunny soaking up some February sun.
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?
Soooo...is this the great again part?
On a personal note, it's devastating to watch things you built with blood, sweat, and tears be dismantled before your eyes. But that's why we need to keep fighting. insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives - Inside Climate News
Under the Biden administration, the department had considered the current and future impacts of climate change in almost everything it did, calculating how increased heat, flooding and drought affecte...
insideclimatenews.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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?
Soooo...is this the great again part?
"Hunkering down at the local level" is exactly my plan too.
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.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Hunkering down at the local level" is exactly my plan too.
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.
Join us next Wednesday 1/29 to learn more about COP29 in Baku.
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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January 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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.
A tiny sliver of good climate news this week.
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.
www.reuters.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A tiny sliver of good climate news this week.
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.
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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January 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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.
Join us next Wednesday 1/29 to learn more about COP29 in Baku.
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 ...
www.psu.edu
January 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join us next Wednesday 1/29 to learn more about COP29 in Baku.
I'm in.
As Fred Roger’s would say, “Look for the helpers.”
With Trump withdrawing from the Paris Agreement it means it’s your time to be a helper, a climate helper.
You in?
With Trump withdrawing from the Paris Agreement it means it’s your time to be a helper, a climate helper.
You in?
January 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm in.
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.
Me: I never skeet about politics
Also me: the geopolitical consequences of the US withdrawing from Paris are complex and the emissions impact even more so. US emissions come from a mix of . Federal and state policies and there's still a lot happening on the state level
Also me: the geopolitical consequences of the US withdrawing from Paris are complex and the emissions impact even more so. US emissions come from a mix of . Federal and state policies and there's still a lot happening on the state level
January 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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.
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Things are still moving in the wrong direction.
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
www.newscientist.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Things are still moving in the wrong direction.
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.
Environmental group partners with Penn State on township’s greenhouse emission report | Chester County Press
‘Climate change is a global problem with local impacts.'
www.chestercounty.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.
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!
January 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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!
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.
January 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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.