This long report is called Infrastructure Crisis, Sustainable Solutions: Rethinking Our Infrastructure Investment Strategies. They try to take all the talk about sustainable and smart infrastructure and boil it down to some actionable recommendations and goals. It’s worth a skim. Just to give some highlights, here are four goals they recommend for 2040:

• Convert 95% of all types of energy use to renewables; fully deploy efficiency to cut demand 60%

• Wring out water waste by 60%; integrate across water-wastewater-stormwater silos

• Upgrade 75% of neighborhoods to“Very Walkable”; connect cities with high speed transit

• Ensure 90% of products are managed by producers after use, and most ‘waste’ material is recovered by local industry

They talk about green infrastructure elsewhere in the text. Actually, it is now called “natural infrastructure”. People are probably a little burned out on the green buzzword. Some other interesting buzzwords they use are “sustainable asset management” and “performance-based infrastructure”.