25 episodes

The Blue Frontiers podcast is a show about seasteading, the environment, special economic zones, and innovation in science, technology, governance, and society itself. Blue Frontiers is focused on innovating with sustainable peaceful floating islands based on voluntary cooperation, to help communities adapt to sea level rise and to promote emergent and self-organized ways of living. The Blue Frontiers podcast is hosted by Nathalie Mezza-Garcia and is edited by Joe Wagner.

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The Blue Frontiers podcast is a show about seasteading, the environment, special economic zones, and innovation in science, technology, governance, and society itself. Blue Frontiers is focused on innovating with sustainable peaceful floating islands based on voluntary cooperation, to help communities adapt to sea level rise and to promote emergent and self-organized ways of living. The Blue Frontiers podcast is hosted by Nathalie Mezza-Garcia and is edited by Joe Wagner.

    Systems & Complexity: Yaneer Bar-Yam - Episode 21

    Systems & Complexity: Yaneer Bar-Yam - Episode 21

    In this episode of the Blue Frontiers Podcast you’ll be able to hear how Yaneer Bar-Yam and his team at the New England Complex System’s Institute, NECSI, predicted financial crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring one year before it happened. Yaneer Bar-Yam, President of one of the most influential complexity science centers in the world, speaks with our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, about their shared view on diversity coming from the study of complex systems and the implementation of self-organized mechanisms of decision-making in human societies. 
     
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    –––––STEADING OUT TO SEA SONG–––––Written, recorded and produced by SirRiffsAlothttps://soundcloud.com/user-740866226/steading-out-to-sea
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    • 53 min
    Real Estate on the Blockchain: Oleksii Konashevych - Episode 20

    Real Estate on the Blockchain: Oleksii Konashevych - Episode 20

    Do you want to know how to register a property on the blockchain, hold a private key to that property, yet allow its transpass in case of decease of divorce? Find out in this episode of the Blue Frontiers Podcast, where our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, speaks to Oleksii Konasevych about e-governance, property registration on the blockchain, tokenization of infrastructure, law and code.
     
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    • 56 min
    The Pacific Cryptocurrency Connection and Origin of Money: Daniel Nagy - Episode 19

    The Pacific Cryptocurrency Connection and Origin of Money: Daniel Nagy - Episode 19

    Daniel Nagy has a PhD in Information Theory and is an expert on data compression and encryption. He's also an Ethereum developer working on swarm (decentralized storage protocol) and an advisor to Blue Frontiers. Join Nathalie and Daniel as they discuss cryptocurrency, economics, decentralization, and more.
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    • 1 hr 1 min
    Innovating in Governance with Innovative Zones: Mark Lutter - Episode 18

    Innovating in Governance with Innovative Zones: Mark Lutter - Episode 18

    Do you want to find out why can’t you text 911, what makes Dubai so special or what makes Disney such a safe place? Find out in this episode of the Blue Frontiers Podcast, where our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, speaks to Mark Lutter, the Director of the Centre for Innovative Governance Research.
     
    TIMESTAMPS
    0:54 Introduction to Mark Lutter
    1:31 The Centre for Innovative Governance Research
    2:54 World Free Zone Organization Conference
    4:18 Innovating in governance and the net impact of innovating with Special Economic Zones
    6:58 Multi-use zones and the limitations or single-use zones for achieving sustained growth
    8:25 Determining and expanding the size of zones
    9:15 Adapting regulations for attracting businesses
    11:00: Neom, new city in Saudi Arabia
    11:50 Chances of succeeding of seasteading
    14:00 The importance of not putting all eggs in one basket
    15:05 How to create zones
    16:55 Getting the legal autonomy from a host country
    18:09 Using existing trade routes and infrastructure
    21:00 Educating about zones
    21:56 Creating legitimacy by working with governments
    22:45 The role of the Centre for Innovative Governance Research
    24:10 Economic Zones for refugees
    24:35 New city projects
    23:30 The main challenge to creating zones
    26:50 The role of the Centre for Innovative Governance Research
    27:25 Special Economic Zones, charter cities
    28:50 Governing with alternative governments
    39:35 Proprietary cities
    34:50 Natural territory monopolies
    35:05 Private water supply
    36:50 Disney World’s autonomy
    38:18 Dispute resolution mechanisms
    39:56 There is no an ideal form of governance
    42:44 You can’t text 911… Creating incentives for entrepreneurs
    45:55 Smart cities are not enough to spark growth rate…
    46:52 Politics gets in the middle of innovating with drones and biotechnologies
    49:55 How seasteading can propel innovation
    52:28 Mark’s ideal location for a seastead
     
     
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    • 56 min
    Granting Legal Personhood to Natural Systems: Kara Dentice - Episode 17

    Granting Legal Personhood to Natural Systems: Kara Dentice - Episode 17

    In this episode, Kara Dentice, a Maori descendant from Te Ureeera, speaks with our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, about granting legal personhood to natural systems. Kara has been involved in two legal processes in New Zealand that gave legal personhood to the Whanganui river and the Te Urewera national park. In this talk, Kara explains why we should change our relation with the environment, going from an extractivist logic, to a logic of coexistence.
     
    Timestamps:
    0:55 Introduction of Kara Dentice
    1:55 A rooster interrupts Kara and Nathalie
    2:18 Reframing the relation with the environment to coexistence
    4:50  The placenta and mother earth in Maori culture
    7:03 The Maoris, land, language and identity
    9:55 Taxing farmers for the CO2 emissions of farming cows
    11:15 Kara is sweating
    11:35 Co-governance of natural resources
    12:28 Guanagui River and Te urewera. A river and a national park that owns itself
    14:14 Law is nothing but a piece of paper
    14:57 Governments want to control
    17:06 Can I sue a river that owns itself?
    16:50 Can a river sue me?
    22:55 Deterritorialization of personal identities
    24:30 Kara’s relation with Te ure wera and his family’s tribes
    28:30 Automatic translators
    29:05 Keeping an indigenous culture alive
    33:25 The Mana
    32:25 The film Moana and its translations
    34:39 Granting legal personhood to natural systems
    43:20 Changing our relation with the environment
    49:50 Closing
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    • 53 min
    Happiness, Wellbeing, Natural Assets & Blockchain: Mark Anielski - Episode 16

    Happiness, Wellbeing, Natural Assets & Blockchain: Mark Anielski - Episode 16

    In this episode, Mark Anielski, author of The Economics of Happiness and The Economics of Wellbeing, speaks with our seavangelesse about his books. The conversation touches points such as the limitations of indexes, such as GDP and proposes to measure and back the wealth of communities with natural assets and how we could tokenize this.
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    TIMESTAMPS
    0:00 Introduction to Mark Anielski
    0:35 Mark’s Book: The Economics of Happiness
    1:00 Backing the wealth of a community with natural assets
    1:35 Can money buy happiness?
    2:00 Relation between GDP and happiness
    3:40 Happiness is underestimated when measuring value
    5:17 Ecological economics (Marc is a forest economist)
    6:05 Mark’s socratic method to teach students about economics
    7:01 Economics of wellbeing
    7:55 How to measure happiness
    8:45 Measuring Happiness in Arue in Tahiti
    10:00 The island of Tahiti is shaped as a Mandelbrot Set Fractal
    11:00 Te aroa ai rahi (verify)
    12:00 Life and time in the Tahitian culture
    13:00 No words for time in the Tahitian language
    14:00 Time as an asset. We live 7.050 hours on average
    15:35 : LIFE IN TIME
    17:10 Money is nothing but a social invention
    21:55 Using time as a currency
    22:55 Bitcoin and time
    22:25 Happiness and nature in French Polynesia
    25:21 Reciprocity in Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
    26:05 Sharing in the Inuits  community
    26:52 The link between dancing, spontaneity and happiness
    27:55 Ho pono pono
    29:02 Mark Anielski: the most dangerous man in Tahiti
    29:40 Backing natural assets on the blockchain
    34:00 Designing bio-inspired systems
    37:12 Greetings in parts of the world
    38:14 How many hours has Mark lived?
    41:10 The monetisation of natural resources
    42:35 Rains of diamonds in Jupiter
    43:35 I love you
     
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    • 47 min

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