Daniel Rirdan is a climate strategist and founder/director of product development for The Exploration Company. As a pioneer of sophisticated interactive maps, a speculative fiction author, and an insider in communication with top experts, Daniel honed his skills as a futurist with a special interest in world ecology challenges and solutions. A world traveler raised in Israel and an international lecturer in venues as diverse as China, Poland, and French Polynesia, Daniel has a sophisticated, firsthand, and on-the-ground grasp of world challenges. A prodigy who published his first science fiction novel at the age of 15 and a trained teacher, he brings his writing skills, his teaching skills,… and his futurist orientation to The Blueprint, the first book to articulate the ecological problems that we face as a species-and what we can do to solve them.Daniel Rirdan lives with his wife and two children in Lafayette, Colorado.