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.

Turning Black Friday Green

Turning Black Friday Green

Black Friday is a phenomena that has permeated throughout the world. Originating in the US, it falls over the weekend of Thanksgiving and, ironically, causes many to leave their families during one...

Become Sustainable For Yourself, Not The Environment

Become Sustainable For Yourself, Not The Environment

The environmental crisis has been gaining traction in recent time. As awareness of the severity of the situation increases there are more calls to action than ever. Through news networks, social me...

Patagonia recycling product

Sustainable Fashion Futures: Circular Fashion Value Chains

Authors: Kruschen Govender, Linus Naik and Dan Kristensen Fashion is an extremely wasteful and ecologically damaging system of production and consumption. For example, clothing products are vastly ...

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Why So Protective?

You know this all already. The earth is in crisis. Human-produced carbon dioxide has changed the composition of our oceans and could have severe consequences for the wildlife that inhabit it. While...

Memoirs of the West Coast

Memoirs of the West Coast

Words by Alex EalesPhotography by Andrew Bance Many moons ago a friend presented me with a photo of a devilish wave - curling, crashing and spitting onto an unyielding rock shelf set below an oily ...

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Future Proofing Fashion: The Proliferation of Sustainable Materials

In the near future, the fashion industry will be faced with mounting climate change related risks, namely resource constraints. To future proof the fashion industry, there is a call for a shift tow...

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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...