In a time of economic hard times and high unemployment, there is special need to increase purchasing capacity for all citizens. Those who are without the financial resources to meet their basic needs and to acquire their basic amenities either will require public expenditures for social services or resort to desperate anti-social means for their livelihood.

The profusion of initiatives based on green cultural values can be conceptualized as the emergent building of a green infrastructure. This infrastructure can be depicted as a three-dimensional grid in which the diverse green initiatives can be positioned on a grid having the following three axes: