Three years ago, UK retailer Marks & Spencer announced its goal to becoming the world’s most sustainable retailer by 2015. Under the imaginative title of "Plan A", the company set specific goals using clearly defined standards to set goals and identify key measurements and reporting mechanisms which were developed with the assistance of other companies and the British Standards Institution. 62 of those original 100 goals have been met.

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The National Council of The St Vincent de Paul Society recently placed the NSW State Council of the Society under temporary administration. Mr Syd Tutton the Society's National President took this decision pointing to what he called "over-corporatisation" in NSW, producing a culture poorly suited to ensure that the Society fulfil its primary mission to support the most marginalised members of the community.

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The US sports clothing maker Knights Apparel has committed to pay workers a ‘living wage’ at its factory in the Dominican Republic. The wage, three times more than local minimum, is calculated as the necessary to provide full-time workers with the means to adequately feed, house and educate their families.

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Operating a business is a balancing act and so is ethics: not all good things are achievable, not all harms are avoidable but oversimplifying what needs to be balanced does not serve the search for a better way. BP seems to have sacrificed good risk management as a cost-cutting measure, as did many financial institutions leading up to the Global Financial Crisis. Unfortunately, the consequences are acquiring truly apocalyptic proportions.
Daniel Hill and John Sweeney

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