Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
The Griffith University Repair Café is a student-led initiative aimed at giving new life to broken items that would otherwise be thrown away. The café seeks to educate people to view their possessions in a different light. The skilled technicians at the Repair Café can fix household items, clothing, small…
With a focus on SDG12, this book generates insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in sustaining the livelihoods of current and future generations.
Although foreign direct investment (FDI) allows emerging market firms (EMFs) to experience various institutions and learn to innovate, we know little about the] effects of exposure to diverse institutions on EMFs’ environmental innovation—a sustainable approach to pursuing economic growth. Incorporating the institutional logics perspective with the learning-from-diversity…
We have developed a Repair Cafe initiative within our Griffith University. Griffith Uni has 5 campuses and we are offering Repair Cafes (with over 153 staff and students and community members who have signed up to volunteer). The aim of the project is to promote and elevate the…
The Australian Repair Summit is an annual national Summit that brings together a wide range of stakeholders interested in or working in the repair sector, who genuinely want to engage in open and respectful dialogue; with industry, other sectors and the community at large about the legislative and policy changes…
Late in 2022, Griffith University launched a new Containers for Change collection program across its Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Each bottle donated through the Containers for Change collection bins will raise funds for Griffith’s Brighter Futures Scholarship Program.
Synthetic N-fertiliser is a foundation of modern agriculture; however, its efficiency is often only 50%, leading to nutrients runoff into nearby creeks, causing e.g. eutrophication and fish kill events. Nitrogen pollution and climate change constitute the two greatest risks to the survival of the GreatBarrier Reef (GBR). To address N…
This book focuses solely on SDG#4: Quality Education. SDG#4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, and this book provides insights into how businesses take action on the SDG through the work of their business. Family businesses play an important role…
This book focuses on SDG number 9 (SDG#9) which focuses on ‘Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure’. SDG#9 aims to build robust infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation, and this book provides insights into how family businesses take action on the SDG through the work of their business.
This book focuses on SDG number 13 (SDG#13) which focuses on ‘Climate Action’. The chapters in this book focus on businesses that have climate action as a key component of their business model. The book portrays family businesses from Germany, Australia, the USA, and the UK.