Seasteading Today

About Seasteading Today

Opening humanity's next frontier

Publisher

Carly Jackson

Category

education · government · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Aug 2022

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026

   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 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. Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics Loyola University New Orleans. Links Buy the book Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers by Walter E. Block and Peter Lothian Nelson: https://bookshop.org/p/books/water-capitalism-the-case-for-privatizing-oceans-rivers-lakes-and-aquifers-peter-l-nelson/946592bbdf53d6d9 Subscribe to Dr. Block’s substack here: https://substack.com/@walterblock

2. 

   28 Jul 2026

   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 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. Support seasteading for $1000 and receive a year of promotion to the seasteading audience. Business Membership Program

3. 

   15 May 2025

   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/ (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 forward with the 99 year lease, they will build the Pacifica project. Highlights: * Steve Clancy, co-founder of Eleutheria, first learned about free-market principles by reading David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom. * The motivation for creating the New Nation Project came out of a desire to build a society with Christian values while welcoming residents of any faith. * Steve offers insight as an insurance broker to developing new technology like Uber and seasteads. Connect with Eleutheria: Join the New Nation Project: https://www.newnationproject.org/pacifica

4. 

   27 Feb 2025

   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 (https://www.seasteading.org/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 Ark Pad-C model in September 2024, now available for purchase (https://arkpad.co/arkpad/) * Development of Reef Resort project featuring two ArkPad platforms & 15 Glamp houses * Investment opportunities available (whole or fractional ownership) (https://arkpad.co/reef-resort/#become-owner) * Reef Resort opening planned in coming months (https://arkpad.co/reef-resort/) Hexafarm Innovation * Successful first harvest completed in September 2024 * Integrated fish farming structure * Glamp houses designed to sit atop Hexafarm units * Sustainable aquaculture system featuring: * Milkfish cultivation * Rabbit fish (natural biofouling control) * Lobster farming * Seaweed (guso) and mussel production Connect with ArkPad: Reach out to ArkPad on their website (https://arkpad.co/) to learn more about purchasing an ArkPad-C model and fractional ownership of a unit in their Reef Resort. (This episode description was partially written by Claude AI.)

5. 

   1 Aug 2024

   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/ (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 effort" philosophy * Importance of patience in community development * Maintaining founding principles while adapting to reality * Step-by-step approach to societal innovation * Core belief: The right to be left alone if leaving others alone * Moving from forced debate to "voting with your boat" Quotes: "Building something new takes longer than you expect." "You have the right to be left alone as long as you leave other people alone." Takeaways: * The challenges of uniting individualists for a common cause * Balancing idealism with pragmatism in community building * The importance of flexibility and patience in long-term projects Connect with Atlas Island: Telegram:  http://t.me/AtlasIsland (http://t.me/AtlasIsland) Website: http://atlasisland.org/ (http://atlasisland.org/) (This episode description was partially written by Claude AI.)

6. 

   29 Jun 2023

   Summer Break for Seasteading Today Podcast

   The Seasteading Today podcast and our Seasteading Socials will be taking a break for the summer. You will still be able to chat with other seasteaders during our monthly Coffee Talk events (http://seasteading.org/coffee-talk). If you have recommendations for topics for future Seasteading Social events, please complete our Feedback Form (https://forms.gle/9dNoirsfBnMZRUBB7).

7. 

   15 Jun 2023

   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 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 also talk about how the algae blooms and sargassum, which are currently huge problems in Florida, could be resources to treat wastewater and also provide materials for food or to plastics or rubber. Links * Super Slime Me Diet (https://experiment.com/projects/super-slime-me-a-month-of-living-on-an-all-algae-diet), support Elliot's experiment and track his progress here (https://experiment.com/projects/super-slime-me-a-month-of-living-on-an-all-algae-diet). * Eating like a Seasteader Video Series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDgJp6DTkMyFKXwW_wmMHcvNsvzP4HHWG) * Elliot’s DIY Guide for biohacking (https://thatmre.medium.com/a-guide-to-diybio-updated-2019-abd0956cdf74) * Get your sample pack of algae pigments from Spira, Inc. (https://www.spirainc.com/product/sample-pack) * Ecotopia Book Club (https://www.seasteading.org/ecotopia-book-club/)

8. 

   18 May 2023

   Water Treatment Discussion with Colin Lennox

   Colin Lennox, CEO of Settling Seas, a subsidiary of EcoIslands LLC (https://ecoislandsllc.com/),  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 nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are the limiting nutrients to plant growth, ocean ecosystems are limited by the lack of metals. The SOWBs are essentially the keystone to ocean permaculture, capturing and concentrating scarce resources into a permanent living, mobile ecosystem. Join us as we talk about how seasteads may clean the surrounding waters, taking lessons from Colin’s experience working with mushroom farm wastewater cycling and coal mining reclamation. Audio editing by Lyka Sherylle Mae Rambac. Links * Phillips Wastewater Treatment Process Diagram (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DlVmrwFqfI_xCvGaPgWxcB0AdyvFDyu0/view?usp=share_link) * Colin’s presentation on Wetland Cycling from February 2022 (https://www.seasteading.org/wetland-cycling/) * EcoIslands, LLC (https://ecoislandsllc.com/) * draw.io (http://draw.io/)- free tool for planning out your water system

9. 

   11 May 2023

   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 many years, keeping hope alive. Later in the conversation, we are joined by Pete Abrams of Plasticrete (https://plasticrete.net/) to talk about "floating over fighting” and his project using plastic to build floating structures. Thank you to Lyka Sherylle Mae Rambac for audio editing Links: * ASC Discord server (https://discord.gg/FrWNM5wp5R) * ASC YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-tlwlcR3BohHPQp_-LqGAw) * Biomedical engineer and U.S. Navy veteran spends 100 days underwater (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-man-spending-a-record-100-days-underwater-for-science-180981783/)

10. 

    4 May 2023

    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 (https://freeport.town/)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 Order of the Melting Mountain, Grand Duchy of Flandrensis (https://flandrensis.com/). Flandrensis is an environmental nonprofit organization that uses micronationalism to raise awareness for climate change and Antarctica. Micronations have some autonomy but not necessarily sovereignty. They build parallel structures to existing nations. Micronations can have varying recognition from the UN. Microstate or city state is the name for something like a micronation that does have recognition from the UN. The guests and participants talk about the strategy of forming a micronation for seasteads, Rose Island, and Sealand. Audio editing by Lyka Sherylle Mae Rambac.

11. 

    4 May 2023

    Catching up with Ben Silone of ArkTide

    Season 5 of the Seasteading Today Podcast will be a little different. Our monthly Seasteading Social events have been hosted on Zoom and posted on YouTube for a couple years. Each Social featuresh a guest speaker to talk about their work that is related to seasteading. This year, we moved those events to the TSI Discord Server and are recording them for this podcast. Unfortunately, the audio quality of these first two episodes is a little rough, but the conversations are inspiring, so I hope you’ll enjoy them anyway! Future episodes will have much cleaner audio. In January 2023, we talked with Ben Silone, CEO and Co-founder of Arktide (https://arktide.org/), about the Domestead project. Why is Puerto Rico an ideal place to start a Seastead company? Why did they change the design from a single-family structure to a 100-meter dome? We take questions from the audience. Ben explains how minerals available in seawater can potentially be used in 3D printing. Ben invites seasteaders to move to Puerto Rico to help with supervising and publicizing the build of their platform. Ben's goal is to allow a group of 10 people to be able to buy a platform. See pictures of the Arktide design on the # Arktide channel of our Discord server (https://discord.com/invite/2sD5pVCeRE). Audio editing by Jie Flowers. Join our next Seasteading Social event at seasteading.org/events (http://seasteading.org/events). Mentions * Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) (https://www.seasteading.org/tag/otec/) * Atlas Island, another one of our Active Projects (https://www.seasteading.org/tag/atlas-island/) * aquaculture (https://www.seasteading.org/tag/aquaculture/)

12. 

    4 May 2023

    Catching up with Mitchell Suchner of ArkPad

    For our new season of the Seasteading Today Podcast, we are doing something a little different. We have been hosting monthly Seasteading Social events for a couple years with a guest speaker to talk about their work that is related to seasteading. This year, we moved those events to the TSI Discord Server and are recording them for this podcast. Unfortunately, the audio quality of these first two episodes is a little rough, but the conversations are inspiring, so I hope you’ll enjoy them anyway! Future episodes will have much cleaner audio. In January of 2023, we talked with Mitchell Suchner (mailto:mitchellsuchner@arkpad.co), founder of ArkPad, about building structures in the Philippines and their business strategy. Mitchell explains that the design for their structure has completely changed, to honor his commitment to build modular structures that can be used as legos. He has also split ArkPad from ArkTide and set up shop in the Philippines because of the availability of workers and Freeports, a lot of tourism. They will start with marketing the ArkPad structures to hotels and resorts near shallow water. ArkPad is also using blockchain technology to finance the building of ArkPad structures. Mitchell explains his passion for using blockchain to decentralize power and ownership to allow more people to invest in floating real estate. See pictures of the ArkPad design on the #ArkPad channel of our Discord server (https://discord.com/invite/2sD5pVCeRE). Audio editing by Lyka Sherylle Mae Rambac. Links: * Season 4 podcast episode featuring Mitchell Suchner: Comprehensive Seasteading with Arktide (https://www.seasteading.org/comprehensive-seasteading-with-arktide/) * Visit the ArkPad website (https://arkpad.co/)

13. 

    1 Sept 2022

    Comprehensive Seasteading with Arktide

    In this episode of the Seasteading Today podcast, our host Carly Jackson talks with the team at Arktide (https://arktide.org/). Ben Silone is the CEO and Co-Founder; Mike Doty is an Advisor and Co-founder; and Mitchell Suchner is the Chief Operating Officer. Arktide is working to build floating 1076 square foot platforms for residential, tourism, and business. They are also competing in the Carbon Removal Xprize, using OTEC technology and aquaculture to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Arktide structure is a flat, square, platform, engineered to handle five meter waves, which means it is ready for both coastal waters and the deep ocean. Their goal is for an all around unit that has broad application. The prototype platform is 32ft by 32ft, and up to 10ft above the water; and will start with a small home on top. These platforms can be joined together to create acres of space, and large structures, communities, and cities. In this interview, we also discuss how blockchain technology can be used to track ownership and leasing of space on the floating platforms. Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are popular at the moment for digital art, but they can also be used to record ownership of an asset, in the same way a title records ownership of a house or car. Blockchain technology can also be used in smart contracts, or DAOs, similar to a Home Owners’ Association governing documents. **Update** At the time of the recording, the plan was to allow people to stake their Solar tokens in exchange for ARKT. While Arktide will implement blockchain technology in the future, it will likely look different than described on the podcast. Also note that a number of design changes have occurred to allow for greater flexibility in the type and style of structures used on these platforms. Read the transcript of this interview here. (https://www.seasteading.org/ep-19-transcript-arktide/) Subscribe on Android (https://www.subscribeonandroid.com/www.seasteading.org/feed/podcast/) Subscribe on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seasteading-today/id931156165)

14. 

    25 Aug 2022

    Changing Society with Ethos Island

    Will Otey and Jan Spiekermann were already interested in micronations before they became Ambassadors for The Seasteading Institute (https://www.seasteading.org/ambassadors/). They met on one of our monthly Ambassador calls and decided to start Ethos Island (https://www.ethosisland.co). After years of learning about classical liberal philosophy and activism, Will came to the conclusion that the best way to change governance is to start over. Jan also has the desire to change society for the better. He got involved with the micronation community and the Transhumanist Party. Zoltan Istvan who founded the Transhumanist Party is a former Ambassador for The Seasteading Institute. Will predicts that a proliferation of new countries will develop, creating an environment in which an evolution of governance can take place. Will and Jan wanted to see a new kind of project in the seasteading movement, one that would not require working with existing governments and is affordable. They expect their Ethos Island development to be funded in the same way that condo developments are funded on land. Prospective seasteaders will put down a deposit to cover the high upfront costs, but at the end of the process they will own their own seastead property. Ethos Island has three stages: * Online community* Boat Harbor* Seastead They expect that moving from life on land to life on the ocean will require a big psychological shift, as well as logistical shifts. With their three stages, members of Ethos Island can get acclimated to ocean life incrementally and with the support of a community. Ethos Island governance will be based on natural law, the non-aggression principle, and private governance. You can learn more about Ethos Island on their website (https://www.ethosisland.co/). Read the transcript of this interview here. (https://www.seasteading.org/ep-18-transcript-ethos-island/) Subscribe on Android (https://www.subscribeonandroid.com/www.seasteading.org/feed/podcast/) Subscribe on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seasteading-today/id931156165)

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