Huge old governments are less able to innovate and try new things. Small, newer nations can try new things, see if they work, and the rest of the world will follow. It happens all the time. Are you in despair over the drug war? Portugal took the lead in decriminalizing the use of hard drugs,Read more
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Things are starting to move forward in Panama. Now is the time to get involved! Are you ready to spend a month or more in paradise creating the next seasteads? Participants of the incubator will develop technology for seastead homes that will be available on the Sensoricaopen source development platform to benefit the worldwide seasteading movement. Ocean BuildersRead more
Two Ambassadors. One Kitchen. A variety of seafood.
Join Charlie Deist, Health Coach and Katie Chowne, Lead Ambassador as they explore recipes that incorporate seaweeds, fish, and anything else we might find on a seastead.
Boats and seasteads are as different as cars and houses. A boat is designed to maintain stability by moving through the waves. It can’t stay in one place, and it can’t stay at sea permanently, because it’s often made of material that corrodes in sea water. From the most powerful engine to the tiniest screw,Read more
This Thanksgiving, we are grateful for VOLUNTEERS! The Seasteading Institute has always been a small organization, meaning we have only two full-time staff members. We rely on volunteers to keep things going. We are particularly grateful to three volunteers who have been indispensable for the past year: Katie Chowne, Ervan Darnell, and Spencer Flagg. KatieRead more
Sometimes people from the Navy and from oil rigs in the North Sea say Seasteaders are naïve. But environments on the sea are as diverse as environments on land. Just as the continents feature the Himalayas and the Sahara, the oceans feature the North Sea and the tropics.
Will Seasteads just end up like Waterworld? Waterworld is what you imagine when you bring your land-based assumptions to the ocean. The movie opens to a world in which fresh water is a precious commodity. But the first single-family seastead produced 60 gallons of fresh water every day, powered by just a few solar panels.Read more
The biggest problem is inept, incompetent, dysfunctional government. It’s the least innovative industry in the entire world and the result of that is mass poverty.
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between cooler deep water and warmer surface-level water to run a heat engine to produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity. Fresh water is a byproduct of this process.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Neil Sims and his colleagues at Kampachi Farms are refining methods for producing sustainable, scalable, and (most importantly) delicious fish. Sims believes that the best way to improve the environment is to use market tools; to provide economic incentives to achieve the ecological imperatives. Sims began as aRead more