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Are Ocean Societies the New Frontier for Sustainable Living?

07/08/2009
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • SESU Seastead
    Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/are-ocean-societies-the-new-frontier-for-sustainable-living/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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SESU Seastead

Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing "SESU Seastead" (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian....

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