The Seasteading Institute

The Business Membership Podcast features Mitchell Suchner, founder of ArkPad, discussing seasteading innovations.

Atlas Island is not a company, it’s a philosophy. Founded four years ago, the international online community has stayed focused on anarcho-capitalist principles while allowing for flexibility in how members want to live up to those principles in the real world. Mason, the founder of Atlas Island,

The Freedom Haven Initiative aims to build a free-market floating city using a custom-designed mega container ship.

Rüdiger Koch of Ocean Builders argues that ocean construction creates habitats, contrasting it with land development.

After a wacky episode filled with polite Satanists, polyamory, prepubescent bike gangs, Adderall-addled tween hackers, and uncontrollable self-driving cars, the hit HBO show Silicon Valley, produced by Mike Judge, climaxed with a lone nerd trapped on a seastead. The artists who designed the fict

I recently read The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Dr Peter Leeson, about the economics and self-governance of pirates. It's a fascinating book, and relevant to seasteading, so I asked Dr Leeson if he'd give an interview. He kindly agreed. Peter T. Leeson is a professor of econom

Bloomberg Television anchor Pimm Fox interviewed Patri Friedman, Chairman of The Seasteading Institute, and Randolph Hencken, the Executive Director, and asked about "a technology and business convergence that would permit [seasteads] to actually be built."

The Seasteading Institute consults with a new unscripted television series about building a floating ocean community.

NASA engineers invited Joe Quirk to discuss sustainable food and fuel in seasteading after watching related videos.

National Geographic highlights aquaculture growth, noting it now exceeds beef production, and calls kelp the 'virtuous vegetable' for its habitat-creating potential.

The Seasteading Institute adds Cal Abel, a Nuclear and Radiological Engineering PhD candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, to its Engineering Board of Advisors.

Organization Aims To Create New Societies On The Ocean Mountain View, CA, April 15th, 2008 The Seasteading Institute today announced that it has been established in order to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, politica

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Seasteading is happening now in The Philippines. Among the four aquapreneurs presenting their companies at the Free Cities Conference this weekend is Mitchell Suchner, founder of ArkPad and builder of the Reef Resort. The Reef Resort produces its own food, fresh water, and electricity. In t

The Seasteading Institute accepts cryptocurrency donations to support decentralized governance and global association.

Nathalie Mezza-Garcia is a complexity scientist and founder and CEO of Seaphia, a consulting firm for floating architecture projects. She is also the former Seavangelesse for Blue Frontiers and their Floating Island Project in French Polynesia. She recently launched the Journal of Special Jurisdicti

reimagining civilizationwith floating cities Seasteading means building floating societies with significant political autonomy. Nearly half the world’s surface is unclaimed by any nation-state, and many coastal nations can legislate seasteads in their territorial waters.