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<center><span style = color:#e0873d;><big><big>Welcome to the development of the '''Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry''' (CAPSI)</br>Where stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and Mexico redesign our industrial systems for sustainable life.</big></big></span></center>
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<center><span style="color:orange;"><h3>Where stakeholders throughout North America redesign sustainable industrial systems that work for everyone.</h3></span></center>


This is the breakthrough society needs to solve the urgent challenge of expanding economic vitality while preserving our environment. From natural resources, agriculture, and raw materials to production, consumption, and recycling, our society can redesign its fragmented industrial systems, and we must act quickly. CAPSI employs innovative principles and tools, including Wikipedia's open-source software and IntelliSynthesis®, an inquiry-based methodology for efficiently gathering collective intelligence into productive solutions. The conception of CAPSI is informed by thirty years of infrastructure advisory work on projects and systems in 45 states and Canadian provinces.  
This is the breakthrough society needs to solve the urgent challenge of expanding economic vitality while preserving our environment. From natural resources, agriculture, and raw materials to production, distribution, consumption, and recycling, our society can redesign its fragmented industrial systems. We must act quickly. Our first Industry Action Plan (IAP) is VitalRail, which focuses on optimizing railroads as the backbone of a multimodal transportation network that serves all industries.  


<h2>What do we mean by industrial systems?</h2>
== What do we mean by industrial systems? ==
CAPSI relates to industrial systems as the complete set of commercial, policy, and planning activities that deliver materials and products for modern civilization’s survival and satisfaction. We understand industrial systems to include all inputs and impacts, including land use, transportation, recycling, and disposal. What occurs between properties is often as critical as what happens at the property. For instance, to create an effective strategic mineral supply chain, we must intentionally position Lithium mines, battery plants, vehicle factories, and recycling facilities to optimize systemwide logistics. We call this design process “Collaborative Industrial Optimization.”
Industrial systems comprise the complete set of commercial, policy, and planning activities involved in delivering materials and products for modern civilization’s survival and fulfillment. This encompasses all inputs and impacts, including land use, transportation, recycling, and disposal. What occurs between properties is often as significant as what happens at a property.<h2>What do we mean by redesign?</h2>
Redesigning industrial systems means working together to find and utilize ways to increase efficiency and reduce negative impacts. It begins with stakeholders establishing collective goals and pragmatic measures while recognizing the reality of prior strategies and investments. Redesigning may require judicious reconstruction, repurposing, and/or relocating some facilities. For instance, to create the most effective strategic mineral supply chain, we would intentionally position lithium mines, battery plants, vehicle factories, and recycling facilities to optimize systemwide logistics. We call this design process "Collaborative Industrial Optimization." Redesigning also calls for a paradigm shift wherein organizations and individuals are incentivized to contribute to systemwide sustainability. 


<h2>What do we mean by redesign?</h2>
== What do we mean by sustainable? ==
Redesigning industrial systems begins with establishing collective goals and pragmatic measures to guide progress. This process recognizes the reality of prior strategies and investments while optimizing sustainable profitability. Redesigning requires sensible reconstruction, repurposing, and relocation of certain physical elements. It also calls for an inspiring evolution of the human element by incentivizing organizations and individuals to contribute to systemwide sustainability.  
Sustainable is the primary design goal of industrial systems: supporting the long-lasting, harmonious co-existence of humans and nature within our abundantly resourced, yet finite ecosystem.  


<h2>Who are the stakeholders?</h2>
== Who are the stakeholders? ==
You are all stakeholders, along with everyone involved in or impacted by our industrial systems. Complete stakeholder representation is a central CAPSI principle. OnTrackNorthAmerica has assembled an unparalleled mapping of over 30,000 stakeholders across the industrial, political, and geographic landscape. CAPSI invites additional stakeholders throughout North America to work towards complete representation across all industrial systems, including representatives from Academia, Advocacy, Business, Community, Funders, Government, Labor, and Media.  
You are all stakeholders, along with everyone involved in or affected by our industrial systems. Developing IAPs for sustainable industries requires complete stakeholder representation. OnTrackNorthAmerica has already cataloged more than 38,000 stakeholders across North America’s industrial, political, and geographic landscape. For each IAP process we initiate, we invite additional stakeholders to work toward complete representation from all sectors, including academia, advocacy organizations, business, community, funders, government, labor, and media.  


<h2>How do we convene stakeholders?</h2>
<h2>How do we work together as stakeholders?</h2>
CAPSI convenes stakeholders in IntelliConference® forums that apply IntelliSynthesis®, our breakthrough question-and-response dialogue method, for efficient input from large groups of diverse stakeholders. To ensure representation of all relevant perspectives, participants are invited based on their roles in commerce, government, and the community. Each participant agrees to periodically read and respond to rounds of questions. The facilitation team creates and shares a digest of each round of responses, saving participants time. Outlier perspectives are considered for the value they may offer the group.   
We convene stakeholders in IntelliConference® forums that apply IntelliSynthesis®, our breakthrough question-and-response dialogue method, to foster efficient input from large groups of diverse stakeholders. We invite participants from all relevant sectors in a given system or region to ensure that all perspectives are represented and have a voice. Each stakeholder agrees to read and respond to rounds of questions within seven days. The facilitation team creates and shares a digest of each round of responses, saving participants time. Outlier perspectives are considered for the value they may offer the group. The IntelliConference and IntelliSynthesis processes are explained in greater detail elsewhere on this website.  <h2>Why include Canada, the United States, and Mexico?</h2>
Although Canada, the United States, and Mexico already engage in extensive cross-border trade, they can greatly benefit from the enhanced coordination provided by our IAPs. These are designed for specific industrial systems and geographic regions while maintaining crucial links to related plans, rather than creating isolated solutions. Unlike traditional studies that often remain unused on a shelf, our dynamic process delivers immediate, measurable results through continuous stakeholder engagement.


<h2>What do we mean by sustainable life?</h2>
<h2 style="border-bottom:none;"><center><big><b>[[Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry|Industry Action Plans]]</b></big></h2>
Sustainable life is the long-lasting, harmonious co-existence of humans and nature.
 
<h2>What is a Continental Action Plan?</h2>
“Continental” includes Canada, the United States, and Mexico, which already engage in extensive cross-border commerce and can greatly benefit from regional coordination. This is an “Action” planning process for producing results, distinct from static reports and studies that typically sit on the shelf. CAPSI is a new institutional model that incorporates private-sector stewardship to address the public sector’s limited ability to improve international conduct of industrial systems. CAPSI intends to facilitate a continental agreement by the end of 2025 on the initial principles, goals, and measures for guiding the redesign of our industrial systems to serve sustainable quality of life in North America.</br>
 
<h2><big><b>[[Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry|Enter the Continental Action Plan]]</b></big></h2>
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Latest revision as of 13:04, 1 July 2025

Where stakeholders throughout North America redesign sustainable industrial systems that work for everyone.

This is the breakthrough society needs to solve the urgent challenge of expanding economic vitality while preserving our environment. From natural resources, agriculture, and raw materials to production, distribution, consumption, and recycling, our society can redesign its fragmented industrial systems. We must act quickly. Our first Industry Action Plan (IAP) is VitalRail, which focuses on optimizing railroads as the backbone of a multimodal transportation network that serves all industries.

What do we mean by industrial systems?

Industrial systems comprise the complete set of commercial, policy, and planning activities involved in delivering materials and products for modern civilization’s survival and fulfillment. This encompasses all inputs and impacts, including land use, transportation, recycling, and disposal. What occurs between properties is often as significant as what happens at a property.

What do we mean by redesign?

Redesigning industrial systems means working together to find and utilize ways to increase efficiency and reduce negative impacts. It begins with stakeholders establishing collective goals and pragmatic measures while recognizing the reality of prior strategies and investments. Redesigning may require judicious reconstruction, repurposing, and/or relocating some facilities. For instance, to create the most effective strategic mineral supply chain, we would intentionally position lithium mines, battery plants, vehicle factories, and recycling facilities to optimize systemwide logistics. We call this design process "Collaborative Industrial Optimization." Redesigning also calls for a paradigm shift wherein organizations and individuals are incentivized to contribute to systemwide sustainability.

What do we mean by sustainable?

Sustainable is the primary design goal of industrial systems: supporting the long-lasting, harmonious co-existence of humans and nature within our abundantly resourced, yet finite ecosystem.

Who are the stakeholders?

You are all stakeholders, along with everyone involved in or affected by our industrial systems. Developing IAPs for sustainable industries requires complete stakeholder representation. OnTrackNorthAmerica has already cataloged more than 38,000 stakeholders across North America’s industrial, political, and geographic landscape. For each IAP process we initiate, we invite additional stakeholders to work toward complete representation from all sectors, including academia, advocacy organizations, business, community, funders, government, labor, and media.

How do we work together as stakeholders?

We convene stakeholders in IntelliConference® forums that apply IntelliSynthesis®, our breakthrough question-and-response dialogue method, to foster efficient input from large groups of diverse stakeholders. We invite participants from all relevant sectors in a given system or region to ensure that all perspectives are represented and have a voice. Each stakeholder agrees to read and respond to rounds of questions within seven days. The facilitation team creates and shares a digest of each round of responses, saving participants time. Outlier perspectives are considered for the value they may offer the group. The IntelliConference and IntelliSynthesis processes are explained in greater detail elsewhere on this website.

Why include Canada, the United States, and Mexico?

Although Canada, the United States, and Mexico already engage in extensive cross-border trade, they can greatly benefit from the enhanced coordination provided by our IAPs. These are designed for specific industrial systems and geographic regions while maintaining crucial links to related plans, rather than creating isolated solutions. Unlike traditional studies that often remain unused on a shelf, our dynamic process delivers immediate, measurable results through continuous stakeholder engagement.

Industry Action Plans

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