Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry

Which industrial systems must be redesigned for sustainability?

Natural Resources

• Water
• Air
• Land
  • FTLUS, Freight Transportation Land Use Strategy
  • RE-BAR, Rail Enabled Brownfield Asset Redevelopment

Transportation

• Rail
  • RE-SEED, Rail Enabled Sustainable Environment and Economic Development
• Truck
• Air
• Ports
• Ocean
• River Barge
• Pipelines

Agriculture

• Inputs
  • Land use
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Enhancements
• Processing
• Outputs
  • Food
  • Energy
  • Biomass

Forestry

• North American Sustainable Forestry Business Plan
  • Wood
  • Pulp
  • Paper

Mining

• Minerals
  • RE-STEM, Rail Enabled Sustainable Transportation of Essential Minerals
• Metals
• Coal
• Oil and Gas

Manufacturing

• Metals
• Chemicals
• Equipment
• Textiles

Materials

• Containers and Packaging
• Construction Materials
  • Cement and Aggregates
    • RE-CARD, Cement and Aggregates Regional Distribution
  • Refractory
  • Lumber
• Metals
• Plastics
• Paper

Construction

• Factories
• Warehouses
• Powerplants
• Mechanical and structural components

Energy

• RE-POWER, Rail Enabled Power Distribution

Waste

• Industrial
• Commercial
• Municipal
  • Glass
    • RE-GLASS, Rail Enabled Glass Logistics and Sustainable Supply
• Construction and demolition waste
• Agricultural
• Wood waste

What are the design criteria for CAPSI?

What do stakeholders want to add to the CAPSI Ethics and Principles?

What Goals do stakeholders want to set?

What Planning Protocols do stakeholders agree on?

What Outcomes do stakeholders envision?

• What outcomes do we want for the environment?
• What outcomes do we want for citizens?
• What outcomes do we want for business owners?
• What outcomes do we want for investors?
• What resources does society need and want to optimize?
• What goods does society need and want to have available?

What Measures of progress do stakeholders want to apply?

What is the timeline for CAPSI?

January 2025 - Selected stakeholder review

April 22, 2025 - CAPSI public launch

May 2025 - RE-SEED Launch (Rail Enabled Sustainable Environment and Economic Development)

April 2026 - Continental Agreement on Principles, Goals, Protocols, and Outcomes

April 2027 - All CAPSI Industrial Systems Initiatives in gear

How must planning evolve to support sustainable industrial systems?

What benefits do stakeholders want Collaborative Industrial Optimization to deliver?

How do we want public-sector economic development to contribute to sustainable industrial systems?

How do we want private-sector commercial activity to align with sustainable industrial systems?

How do we want land use decisions to contribute to sustainable industrial systems?

How do we want transportation planning to evolve in support of sustainable industrial systems?

How can academic and commercial research support sustainable industrial systems?

What factors do we want to include in assessing the full impact of industrial systems?

How must interactions among public and private sector entities evolve to support systemwide sustainability?

What are the geographic planning regions of CAPSI?

Local

Potential

• OnTrackPhiladelphia

In Development

In Action

Corridor

Potential

In Development

• Dallas to Texarkana I30 Corridor Strategy
• San Francisco Bay to Salt Lake City I80 Corridor Strategy

In Action

State/Province

Potential

Canada-13

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ontario

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Yukon

United States-50

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Mexico-32

Aguascalientes

Baja California

Baja California Sur

Campeche

Chiapas

Chihuahua

Coahuila

Colima

Durango

Guanajuato

Guerrero

Hidalgo

Jalisco

México

México City

Michoacán

Morelos

Nayarit

Nuevo León

Puebla

Oaxaca

Querétaro

Quintana Roo

San Luis Potosí

Sinaloa

Sonora

Tabasco

Tamaulipas

Tlaxcala

Veracruz

Yucatán

Zacatecas

In Development

• OnTrackNevada
• OnTrackPennsylvania

In Action

Regional/Multi-state

Potential

• Southeast Supply Chain Coalition

In Development

• Southwest Supply Chain Coalition

In Action

National

Potential

• OnTrackMexico
• OnTrackCanada
• OnTrackUS

In Development

In Action

Continental

• OnTrackNorthAmerica

How must capital deployment evolve to support sustainable industrial systems?

How do we want investors’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?

How do we want business stakeholders’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?

How do we want lenders’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?

How do we want public agencies’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?

What advantages will Sustainable Systems Capitalization deliver?