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Professor of economics Dr. Walter Block joins Carly Jackson in this bonus episode of the podcast. They discuss the book Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers, co-written by Dr. Block and Peter Lothian Nelson. Carly and Dr. Block discuss different ways of determining private property boundaries on the ocean, how property disputes on the water are similar to property disputes on land, and basic laissez-faire economics concepts. If you need a refresher course on economics, or have never studied it to begin with, this is a great conversation for you! Dr. Bl
Introducing Season 6 of the Seasteading Today Podcast! Later this week, we will drop a special bonus episode: an interview with Austrian economist Dr. Walter Block to discuss his book Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers. You could be the next guest! If you have a business selling a product or a service that would be useful for seasteaders, you can join our Business Membership Program. Business Members are featured in our email newsletter that lands in 3000 inboxes every week, promoted on our blog and interviewed on the Seasteading Today podcast. Suppo
Eleutheria is one of our Business Members. To learn more about the Business Membership Program, visit: https://www.seasteading.org/business-membership/ Key Points: Eleutheria is seeking legal autonomy, something beyond a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Combining seasteading with a free private city would allow for the best of both worlds. They presented a proposal to the Parliament of Tuvalu about establishing a 99 year lease where they can develop real estate, medical facilities, and seasteads bringing economic activity to Tuvalu. Eleutheria is part of the New Nation Project. If Tuvalu moves for
The second episode in our Business Membership Podcast Series features Mitchell Suchner, Founder of ArkPad. Learn More about the Business Membership All Tech Coming to Fruition: Innovations in Seasteading In this episode, host Carly Jackson talks with Mitchell Suchner, founder of ArkPad, about their developments in floating architecture and sustainable aquaculture. From a typhoon-resistant floating home to innovative fish farming solutions, discover how ArkPad is revolutionizing seasteading technology. Episode Highlights ArkPad Updates Hosted Launch Party celebration for the typhoon-resistant A
Our first podcast for our new Business Membership Program features Mason, Founder of Atlas Island. To learn more about the Business Membership Program, visit: https://www.seasteading.org/business-membership/ Key Points: Atlas Island: A 3-year journey in community building and lessons learned Challenges in uniting independent-minded anarcho-capitalists Bridging the gap between online engagement and real-world action The pragmatic approach to building floating communities on the ocean Highlights: Atlas Island's focus on broad strokes rather than minute details The "maximal liberty, minimal effor
Seasteading Socials are on Summer Break, but you can let us know what topics to present when we come back!
Elliot Roth, Founder of Spira, Inc, is developing algae to make changes to our global supply chain. Elliot first discovered the nutritional benefits of algae when he was short on cash and looked up how NASA feeds their astronauts. With his background in bioengineering and genetics, his need for easy protein grew into a desire to revolutionize the global supply chain to be less extractive, and grow resources from biological organisms. We talk about building toward a utopian vision of the future. For Elliot, that vision includes localizing the supply chain to reclaim the means of production. We
Colin Lennox, CEO of Settling Seas, a subsidiary of EcoIslands LLC, joins us to talk about using biological processes for breaking down waste to produce fresh drinking water and reclaim resources on the high seas. Settling Seas’ wetlands-in-a-box, called Self-Organizing Wetland Bioreactors (SOWBs) function as the ecological hub for seasteads of any size. They up-cycle human, food, and crop waste in saline and/or sweetwater wetland reactors, capturing precious iron, manganese, nitrogen, and methane for aquaponics, energy, and other in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). Unlike on land where nitro
Brendon Traxler, founder of Atlantis Sea Colony (ASC) gives us an update in this episode of the podcast, recorded from our March 2023 Seasteading Social. Brendon explains their strategy for using a shipping container as the base structure for their underwater habitat design and their plan to use a rock quarry to test out the prototype. We talk about how to keep focus on accomplishing a goal over many years, keeping hope alive. Later in the conversation, we are joined by Pete Abrams of Plasticrete to talk about "floating over fighting” and his project using plastic to build floating structures.
On February 4, 2023, we hosted a Seasteading Social about Micronations in our Discord channel with guest speakers were Taz Riot, founder of Freeport, and Jan Spiekermann, co-founder of Ethos Island. ## **The speakers represent their own views and not the views of The Seasteading Institute.** Taz Riot formed Freeport in 2016 and followed international procedure to announce it to the UN. Freeport helped provide humanitarian aid to Sierra Leone during an Ebola virus outbreak, working with NGOs is a way to be recognized as a micronation by the UN. Jan Spiekermann holds the title of Knight of the O
