Economy of Common Good vs. Capitalist Economy









https://www.oesfo.at/
https://derstandard.at/2000090219370/Wiederbelebungsversuch-fuer-die-oekosoziale-Marktwirtschaft

https://hbr.org/2017/07/globalization-in-the-age-of-trump
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/globalisation-and-regional-economies_9789264037809-en

Oral TASK: 
 


Monologue                                                                                            4-5 min

You are a member of your local Landjugend Organisation. Your friends want to improve their English - so you organise a weekly evening about several topics. This week you want to present a new and controversial project that aims to make customers aware of unfair trading conditions. In your kick-off speech you are going to address the following issues:

  • Explain why many of the products we buy are produced under unfair and inhumane conditions
  • Describe the projects initiated in order to make customers more aware of what they are buying – think about measures everybody can take to help those poor people
  • Outline what we as customers can do, in order to help people in developing countries improving their situation


Dialogue

After your presentation you talk to a colleague. In your conversation you talk about the following topics:

  • why to buy fair trade products
  • why it is better to buy local products than products from far away
  • why buying locally is more difficult with clothes and how this problem could be solved

 

Greenwashing




Deal with this topic on TEAMS! 

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10946-greenwashing.html 

  • What Is Greenwashing?
  • How to avoid greenwashing?
  • Difference between green marketing and greenwashing?
  • How greenwashing harms a brand's reputation
  • Your opinion on this topic!

 



 

 

Planned Obsolescence


 


You are a member of Greenpeace and your local Landjugend Organisation. Your friends want to improve their English - so you organise a weekly evening about several topics. This week you want to present the topic planned obsolescence. In your kick-off speech you are going to address the following issues:

 

Imagine the following situation: Greenpeace Initiative

 

Monologue                                                                                        

 

  • Describe how planned obsolescence works and why the economy seems to need it
  • Outline how we can can teach people in our throw-away society to think in a more sustainable way
  • What we can do to make people aware of this topic

 

Dialogue

 

After your presentation you talk to a visitor of the summit. In your conversation you talk about the following topics:

 

  • why to buy sustainable products
  • why it is better to buy local products – where you know where it comes from - than products from far away
  • why should your friends also become a member of Greenpeace?

 

 

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/