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  Please be sure not to confuse the roles of The Seasteading Institute and Blue Frontiers. Blue Frontiers is an independent company, distinct from The Seasteading Institute. The Seasteading Institute is a small nonprofit promoting the idea of seasteading around the globe. Blue Frontiers is a startup company that will build the first seastead inRead more

Lelei LeLaulu is a development entrepreneur from Samoa who specializes in the Pacific Islands and advises the International Finance Corporation on sustainable business. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School. He spoke eloquently at the First Tahitian Seasteading Gathering here.Read more

Here’s Part Three of our new video series telling the story of our partnership with Polynesians.  Consider that Polynesians have been choosing among islands and founding new societies for more than a thousand years.  For a seasteader, meeting these extraordinary people feels like coming home. This extraordinary story would never have occurred without the sustaining support ofRead more

Here’s Part Two of our new video series telling the story of our partnership with Polynesians. I co-created it with Pascal Erhel Hatuuku from the Marquesas archipelago in French Polynesia. Pascal was also emcee of the First International Tahitian Seasteading Gathering, and he’s the first person you see in this video, declaring that Polynesians are the firstRead more

Creating this new video series with my friend Pascal Erhel Hatuuku from the Marquesas Islands was a powerful experience for us. As we watched the astonishing footage from the First Tahitian Seasteading Gathering, we were emotionally transported back to the moment where our cultures connected and began to learn from each other. Seasteading is muchRead more

NBC News reports: “The village will serve as a showcase and test bed for technologies that will be needed to create much larger floating communities, says Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that is the driving force behind Blue Frontiers. The institute hopes one day to establish full-scale floating cities that couldRead more

With a feature in The New York Times by David Gelles for the Deal Book section, which focuses on business and policy issues, seasteading now has a firm foothold in the most respected newspapers in the USA which range across the entire political spectrum. Blue Frontiers is working to integrate visions for a better, freer, moreRead more

“…[Blue Frontiers] is building excitement and courting potential investors with a series of gatherings…”                                                                                   Read more

Seasteading is accelerating. News reports can’t keep up and frankly don’t have a clue. Want the real story? Want to know who, why, and how? Meet some of the leading seasteaders making it happen. It’s even more exciting than you think. Joe Quirk is solely responsible for this video’s content, especially the crazy stuff atRead more

Michael Strong, humanitarian author and education entrepreneur, explains to Joe Quirk why he served on the original Seasteading Institute Board of Directors to accelerate the means by which people create abundance.