Abstract: Searching for building stones for a sustainable economy this article discusses content and reach of the principle of care. Based on the concept »Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften « with an understanding of time as timescapes the two authors – scientists in the fields of economics and environmental planning – broaden the notion of care towards »Vorsorge« (foresight, provision). Time is seen as a time complex with temporality (the dynamic aspect of time) and the past-present-future continuum and not as a single time. In this perspective caring today demands for integrating the future as the lifetime of our successors – it demands for »Vorsorge«. Using their earlier developed category »(Re)Productivity « the authors make clear that and how care is included in »Vorsorge«.