The Journal

Our Journal serves as an invaluable platform to Sealand. With important stories to tell, it allows us to engage with our community through compelling storytelling.

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Seaweed Sealand: The Future of Farming

Our beautiful ocean is home to a diverse rainbow coloured myriad of sea life ~ or seafood whose numbers are dwindling at an alarming rate. If you dive further down the aquatic food chain, through ...

Josh Rowe Telling Sealand Gear Stories Through Film

Josh Rowe Telling Sealand Gear Stories Through Film

Josh Rowe is a talented storyteller, focusing on stories that have an impact and can change mindsets & empower individuals or minorities. Josh is not only a filmmaker, but a qualified Geologist...

European Photographer Manuel Toral

Sealand Gear Talks to European Outdoor Photographer Manuel Toral

My name is Manuel Toral. I was born in Villaviciosa, a small ocean-facing valley of Asturias in northern Spain. I go by my last name, ‘Toral’, and I’m known locally for my passion for nature photog...

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Climate Change Risks to the Fashion Industry

There is widespread consensus among the international scientific community that the world’s climate is being affected by anthropogenic (i.e. human-induced) emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into...

Sealand Gear Co-Founder Mike Schlebach holding Zigzag cover

Sealand Gear Graces Zigzag Cover

Sealand Gear co-founder, recently became a dad, 40 years old and going strong, now the face of the latest Zigzag. How do you feel about all of this? They say that life begins at 40 and if I look ba...

Sunset Over Mountains in Austurias Spain

Sealand Gear Launches in Europe

Sealand has arrived in Europe. Not just anywhere in Europe but to Asturias, a little-visited region by the hordes of sun-seeking tourists that is wedged between Galicia and Cantabria along the nort...

Model at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week with Sealand Bag

Sealand Gear Features at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town 2017

This past weekend (April 7th - 9th) was the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town and we are so stoked to have been part of it!! We teamed up with Mevrou & Co, Ballo and 2bop under the Fashion R...

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Plastic Seas

The invention of plastics has been one of the most wonderful and terrible things to happen to this planet. Currently, plastic pollution in the ocean is an enormous, increasing problem that we don’t...

Sealand Gear Upcycled Packaging Bags

Upcycling and Recycling: All The Way Through To Packaging

You look at the ingredients on your food packaging, you buy hemp clothing, and you become eco-conscious and aware. You’re on the bandwagon.  Championing recycling and upcycling and a life of non-wa...

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The Future Of Pollution

Sealand Gear believes in minimising the output of waste material to landfill. In this process we find material that can have a second function as a usable product using the up-cycling process. We g...

Sealand Gear Ambassador Patrick Burnett Standing Next to wooden surfboard

Introducing Sealand Gear Ambassador Patrick Burnett

With the concept of making upcycled products from discarded yacht sails, truck tarpaulin, advertising billboard, ripstop and Bedouin stretch tent materials, who better to represent Sealand on the g...

Basket of Vegetables

The Green Economy by Brett Shearer

There is a significant shift happening. Across the globe there is agreement that the current economic model is unsustainable – on a planet with finite resources. The widening gap of inequality betw...