It seems as though every company these days is striving to paint itself “green”, and the whaling industry is no different. In a new campaign to broaden support for whaling, the Norwegian-based High North Alliance has launched a campaign encouraging people to eat more whale meat because of its comparatively lower impact on carbon emissions compared to traditional sources such as beef. Each meal of whale, says the HNA, corresponds to 1.9 kg of carbon emissions, compared to 15.8 for beef, 6.4 for pork, and 4.6 for chicken.

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Companies release data about their quarterly or yearly projected earnings to give shareholders and other investors an idea of how the company is performing and what to expect in the near future. This, in turn, allows others in the marketplace to make decisions based on the best data available. Making good decisions and enabling others to do so is a fundamental principle in ethics.

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In the face of rising inflation, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for “restraint” in pay increases, setting an example by freezing parliamentarians’ pay for twelve months.

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Good management is proactive. It learns from experience to ensure that problems are avoided in the future rather than just fixing them up after they happen. Only in this way does an organisation meet the future with confidence that it has initiative and creativity properly backed up by good structures and institutional supports.
John Sweeney

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