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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. 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 Subscribe on your favorite podcast player: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Podchaser Pandora

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

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 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

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 Ark Pad-C model in September 2024, now available for purchase Development of Reef Resort project featuring two ArkPad platforms & 15 Glamp houses Investment opportunities available (whole or fractional ownership) Reef Resort opening planned in coming months 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 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.)

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 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 Website: http://atlasisland.org/ (This episode description was partially written by Claude AI.)

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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, support Elliot's experiment and track his progress here. Eating like a Seasteader Video Series Elliot’s DIY Guide for biohacking Get your sample pack of algae pigments from Spira, Inc. Ecotopia Book Club

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 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 Colin’s presentation on Wetland Cycling from February 2022 EcoIslands, LLC draw.io - free tool for planning out your water system

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. Thank you to Lyka Sherylle Mae Rambac for audio editing Links: ASC Discord server ASC YouTube Biomedical engineer and U.S. Navy veteran spends 100 days underwater

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 Order of the Melting Mountain, Grand Duchy of Flandrensis. 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.