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

Agriculture

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

Forestry

• RE-FOREST, Rail Enabled Forest-to-Market Systems
  • 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
  • RE-GLASS, Rail Enabled Glass Logistics and Sustainable
• 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

Transportation

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

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 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?
• What goods does society need and want?

How must planning evolve to support sustainable industrial systems?

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

• What is OTNA’s Industrial Land Value Optimization?

How do we account for the full impact of industrial systems in advancing sustainability?

• What is OTNA’s Land Freight Lifecycle Analysis?
  • OnTrackNorthAmerica’s Land Freight Lifecycle Impact Analysis and Calculator reinvent benefit-cost analysis to guide sustainable highway and railway goods movement investments.

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

• Laws
• Regulations
• Permitting
• RFQs
• RFIs
• RFPs
• Proposals
• Contracts
• Work Scopes
• Studies and Reports
• Action Plans

How must capital deployment evolve to support sustainable industrial systems?

What do we call this approach to industrial investment?

• Sustainable Systems Capitalization