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?

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?