Responsible Consumption and Production

The aim of this project is to direct food choices to more plant-rich dishes on Griffith University Campuses, thereby reducing the environmental footprint of food outlets. The goals are two-fold: making climate-friendlier dishes more visible/available and shifting behaviours so that more customers pick those options. The program uses pre-and-post consumer… Read More

“The Radical Materiality of Oystertecture“ reinventing the boundary – through the innovative use of discarded oyster shells. Variations in thickness and height of the oystertecture are driven by the sun’s direction and height. The art installation enhances the interplay between the user, the structure, and the light. Read More

The Performance + Ecology Research Lab (P+ERL) is an initiative dedicated to furthering climate justice across all aspects of contemporary theatre-making and building sustainable futures in and beyond the performing arts.

Transport is one of the key enablers of tourism development and growth. The emerging innovations in tourism transport include micromobility (small, lightweight devices such as electric scooters or bicycles) and microtransit (on-demand and flexible public transport). These can both can be integrated using Mobility as a Service (MaaS) –… Read More

Currently, one of the most used insecticides for rice crops in China is pymetrozine {4, 5-dihydro-6-methyl-4-[(3-pyridylmethylene)-amino]-1, 2, 4-triazine-3(2H)-one}. Pymetrozine has recently replaced toxic organophosphate pesticides in China. Because of its relatively recent introduction, there are limited studies on the behaviour of pymetrozine in the environment. There has been virtually no… Read More

This is a practice-led research collaboration between CARI researchers and Vulcana Women’s Circus, a physical theatre community arts organisation. In association with Drs Samid Suliman and Kaya Barry (HLSS/GCSCR) Climate Scape unites performance researchers with social scientist/scholars and professional circus artists to explore how physical theatre and circus methods can… Read More

The development of an Artwork Ingredient List to enable the calculation of the work hours, waste and Scopes 1,2,3 emissions in the production of Bespoke Artworks produced by UAP.

In 2021, Griffith Global Mobility provided funding for 400+ students to participate in Common Purpose’s Global Leadership Forums and Global Citizenship Programs, which are non-academic (but with a micro-credential upon completion), online leadership development programs that focus on the UN SDGs. The uptake in these programs has shown that students… Read More

This project produced a pilot set of Ecosystem Accounts for the Mitchell River catchment in far north Queensland. The Ecosystem Accounts were constructed using recently standardised methodologies from the The United Nations’ System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA). SEEA EA provides a framework for organising data… Read More

Microplastics (MPs) are emerging contaminants that have been detected in every spheres (land, air, water, and organisms) of the planet earth. For example, each year 8 million tonnes of MPs enter the ocean. According to a 2019 report from the World Economic Forum, 30 million tonnes of plastics have already… Read More