A first draft of a paper with a brief history and review of the Cooperative Bank in UK and it's fall from grace as a 'virtuous' eco friendly ethical bank in 2012. A typology of new scenarios and risks relating to eco friendliness is provided

This paper which is mainly based on the primary research carried out for one of the author's PhD thesis. It examines the case of an organisation that has positioned itself in the marketplace as both ethical as well as ideologically green. The Co-operative Bank's ethical and green policies are...