When mountain bike riders clear unauthorised trails, move earth and install jumps in a patch of bushland, they’re the baddies, right? Not necessarily. Every visit to the wilderness causes an…
Australia’s ‘climate roundtable’ could unite old foes and end the carbon deadlock
Climate policy is in the media yet again, but this time it might be different. The set of policy principles released by the Australian Climate Roundtable yesterday are extraordinary for…
Eats, shoots and leaves: what the movie industry does to ‘location’
The motion picture industry has come a long way since the silent movies of yesteryear. The use of CGI and special effects capture our imaginations, but have these reduced the…
Fear, truth and love – our relationship to the Coast
On 6 April 2015 Griffith University hosted TEDxGriffithUniversity. The event, which showcased the extraordinary achievements of a range of thinkers, business leaders, scientists and adventurers, was based on the theme ‘Knowledge…
Car park of the future, today
Griffith University has once again cemented itself as a leader in appealing design and innovative sustainability features with the unveiling of its new $23.3 million multistorey car park. Officially opening…
An objective way to decide on a fair Australian emissions pledge
Earlier this year, Australia was handed a list of 36 questions about its climate policy from the United States, China, Brazil, New Zealand, the European Union and Switzerland as part of…
What has happened to the Australian backyard?
Up until the end of the 1980s, nearly all suburban houses in Australia had large backyards by world standards. The older type of suburban form is still characterised by backyards…
Deadly flash rips: Australian first research
Rip currents are the major natural hazard on Australian beaches accounting for around 90% of the rescues and are responsible for at least 21 drownings on average per year according…
Did farming cause a bottleneck of male diversity?
When people abandoned a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and became agriculturalists, initially some 10,000 years ago, they gave up a lot of things. This significant shift in the way they obtained their…
Battery energy system promises power benefits
The explosion in rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) in Australia is plain to see across many suburbs. Solar PV systems are now installed on over one million roofs up from a little over…