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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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
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
Regulations are the rules by which a society is organized. The least intrusive regulations provide a process for resolving conflicts between individuals and organizations. More intrusive regulations govern the economic and moral activity of individuals and organizations.
The United States was founded as a tax haven. The British Empire tried to impose taxes by force, but a small group of colonists thought they could do a better job governing themselves. The United States became a haven for people dissatisfied with everything the old governments did poorly.
The dawn of the age of Seasteading began on February 2, 2019, when Ocean Builders achieved an engineering feat and an environmental feat. First they proved a single-family seastead can float stably in international waters for less than the cost of the average American home.
In 1971, four years after he designed a floating city, Buckminster Fuller wrote: “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” Land activity is responsible for most of the carbon emissions and the vast proportion of plastic in the sea. ButRead more
When a wave hits an iceberg, seals sleeping on it rarely feel it move. Floating oil rigs operate on the same principle. The submerged pontoons that support these floating societies are so heavy, workers often play ping pong on the high seas.