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Rirdan offers immediately employable designs that lay down new paths for our economy, technology, industry, and politics</span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>. </span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'>Award winning author David Suzuki wrote of it: “Rirdan’s book must be read so we can follow his recommendations. We have no choice and time is terrifyingly short.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'>Author of <i>The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse</i> speak in very concrete terms about:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>problem</span></b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>: ocean biomes are severely degraded. <b>solution</b>: zero-discharge tanks to grow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>fish as the sole providers of sea food for humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>A viable technological solution to fix our water-shortage problems permanently—an array of ocean desalination plants with water canals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>problem</span></b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>: Coal and natural-gas power plants emit greenhouse gases. <b>solution</b>: how<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>solar and wind energy can provide, in tandem, 24/365 power to the entire North<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>American grid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>problem</span></b><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>: Aviation contributes to global warming. <b>solution</b>: Ultra-fast trains traversing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>through vacuum tunnels. Possible to get from New York to Beijing in two hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>Why we ought, in part, to bring back wilderness. And the critical role of rotational,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>intensive grazing of livestock in the restoration of the land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>Why the existing economic setup cannot get us where we need to go. 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And then on, to a world unification.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>Why a carbon-neutral industry is inadequate at this late stage, and what should be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>done about it: a practical plan to capture hundreds of billions of tons of carbon from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>the air over a few decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>Bringing the world population to 1 billion within 150-200 years—why we need to and what<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'>is a humane why to accomplish it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215968'>A video excerpt from a larger presentation by Daniel Rirdan: </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/48158985"><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00007F'>https://vimeo.com/48158985</span></a><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215968'> </span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'>Rirdan has recently appeared in various radio shows, such as Green Majority, Ecoshock, and Our Planet. Daniel the founder of The Exploration Company where he has directed product development, pioneering sophisticated interactive world maps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215968'>More about Daniel and the book: </span><a href="http://www.danielrirdan.com"><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215968'>www.danielrirdan.com</span></a><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#215868'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222014'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222014'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>