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Dr. Walter Block on Privatizing the World's Water

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…

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Your name here on the Seasteading Today podcast!

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…

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More than a Free Private City, New Nation Eleutheria

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…

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Business Member ArkPad's Game-Changing Reef Resort

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…

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Atlas Island: Building an Anarcho-Capitalist Community

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…

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Summer Break for Seasteading Today Podcast

Seasteading Socials are on Summer Break, but you can let us know what topics to present when we come back!

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Algae to Disrupt the Supply Chain

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…

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Water Treatment Discussion with Colin Lennox

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…

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Catching up with Brendon Traxler of ASC

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…

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Micronations Discussion

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…

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