ABSTRACT
Green communities offer the hope of providing abundance of time, and a deeper perspective on time and on the steady arc of time over the ages. Even in dense urban settings, many green communities place high importance on the integration of gardens and food production in and around living environments. Time-affluence is certainly a profoundly different outlook on community wealth. The concept of "time-affluence" and time-affluent communities is promoted by organizers of the Take Back Your Time Day in the United States and Canada. Redefining Progress, a California-based think tank, unveiled an alternative calculation of macro-level progress, called the Real Progress Indicator (RPI). The RPI corrected for the perverse and undesirable things counted by the gross domestic product (GDP), such as expenditures to clean up pollution, and added in good things not usually counted by GDP, such as volunteer labor. The result was a different numeric peg and also a new and different way of thinking about progress itself.
