The Blueprint, select reviews
"His impassioned writing will engage both the layman and the expert, and his meticulously drafted blueprint merits the attention of anyone concerned about the future."
—Publishers Weekly, a star review designation
“Rirdan’s prescriptive nonfiction debut provides suggestions to ensure the planet’s continued environmental health. The author sets forth his plan for salvation, ambitiously addressing every major threat to the environment: climate change, deforestation, overfishing, wetlands drainage and excess consumption. His scope is broader than most environmentalist writers, including Al Gore in his seminal book on climate change....Rirdan’s thorough, readable treatment of the questions society must confront makes this book an essential addition to any environmentalist’s reading list.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Books and websites may tout “ten easy ways to save the planet”....The way to avoid the catastrophe that confronts us is not going to be easy or simple, but urgently imperative. For all who care about the future for our children and our species, Rirdan’s book must be read so we can follow his recommendations. We have no choice and time is terrifyingly short.”
—David Suzuki, Ph.D., award-winning scientist and environmentalist author
“This book is filled with interesting ideas—it will get you thinking in new directions!”
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, founder of 350.org
"With an optimistic outlook for the future and the value of technology, "The Blueprint" is well worth considering for social and international issues collections."
—the Midwestern Book Review
“The Blueprint is an epic analysis of the world perched on the cliff of catastrophe. Rirdan’s first stab is brilliant, innovative, and radical. Don’t dismiss it as utopian. Join the conversation. Prove that homo sapiens is not a failed species. Secure the future.”
—Niels Schonbeck, Professor of Chemistry at Metropolitan State University of Denver
“As a sociologist, I am intrigued by Rirdan’s visionary solutions. What makes the book so unique is that the macro-level solutions are worked out in meticulous detail.
“Rirdan’s ideas raise knotty questions such as how the captains of corporate capitalism, the super-rich, as well as the leaders of both autocratic and democratic nations will voluntarily renounce their interests and join the truly new revolutionary movement. And for the many millions of impoverished illiterates in the Third World....I will leave those questions to be answered by the readers of this book who may well be inspired and challenged by Rirdan’s call for action, to the point that their overwhelming numbers will generate the most sweeping social movement of all time.”
—Irving Franke, Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, University College
"I have spent the last year studying the challenges that face the US including peak oil and global warming, of all the books and articles I've read, your book is the only one that has given me even a glimmer of hope."
—Jon Andersen
—Publishers Weekly, a star review designation
“Rirdan’s prescriptive nonfiction debut provides suggestions to ensure the planet’s continued environmental health. The author sets forth his plan for salvation, ambitiously addressing every major threat to the environment: climate change, deforestation, overfishing, wetlands drainage and excess consumption. His scope is broader than most environmentalist writers, including Al Gore in his seminal book on climate change....Rirdan’s thorough, readable treatment of the questions society must confront makes this book an essential addition to any environmentalist’s reading list.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Books and websites may tout “ten easy ways to save the planet”....The way to avoid the catastrophe that confronts us is not going to be easy or simple, but urgently imperative. For all who care about the future for our children and our species, Rirdan’s book must be read so we can follow his recommendations. We have no choice and time is terrifyingly short.”
—David Suzuki, Ph.D., award-winning scientist and environmentalist author
“This book is filled with interesting ideas—it will get you thinking in new directions!”
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, founder of 350.org
"With an optimistic outlook for the future and the value of technology, "The Blueprint" is well worth considering for social and international issues collections."
—the Midwestern Book Review
“The Blueprint is an epic analysis of the world perched on the cliff of catastrophe. Rirdan’s first stab is brilliant, innovative, and radical. Don’t dismiss it as utopian. Join the conversation. Prove that homo sapiens is not a failed species. Secure the future.”
—Niels Schonbeck, Professor of Chemistry at Metropolitan State University of Denver
“As a sociologist, I am intrigued by Rirdan’s visionary solutions. What makes the book so unique is that the macro-level solutions are worked out in meticulous detail.
“Rirdan’s ideas raise knotty questions such as how the captains of corporate capitalism, the super-rich, as well as the leaders of both autocratic and democratic nations will voluntarily renounce their interests and join the truly new revolutionary movement. And for the many millions of impoverished illiterates in the Third World....I will leave those questions to be answered by the readers of this book who may well be inspired and challenged by Rirdan’s call for action, to the point that their overwhelming numbers will generate the most sweeping social movement of all time.”
—Irving Franke, Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, University College
"I have spent the last year studying the challenges that face the US including peak oil and global warming, of all the books and articles I've read, your book is the only one that has given me even a glimmer of hope."
—Jon Andersen