CAPSI

Welcome to the development of the Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry (CAPSI)
Where stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and Mexico redesign our industrial systems for sustainable life.

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.

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.”

What do we mean by redesign?

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.

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.

How do we convene stakeholders?

CAPSI applies 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. IntelliSynthesis® enables stakeholders to be innovative and have fun along the way.

What do we mean by sustainable life?

Sustainable life is the long-lasting, harmonious co-existence of humans and nature.

What is a Continental Action Plan?

“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.