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Wrapping Up Plastic Free July

Wrapping Up Plastic Free July

The dust is settling on another Plastic Free July. This year was bigger than ever, and we saw first timers, veterans, extremists, and people from all walks of life come together in the fight agains...

5 Tips For Going Plastic Free - While Saving Money

5 Tips For Going Plastic Free - While Saving Money

In today’s world going plastic free is a monumental task. We see some kind of plastic in almost every product available, and the few products that are plastic free are unaffordable. We at Sealand, ...

High On Hemp

High On Hemp

Not so long ago it was widely accepted that cannabis was a dangerous drug that would, at the very least, leads to criminal behaviour and decapitation of family members. Today, many argue that it ca...

Sealand’s Rough Guide To Carbon Offsetting

Sealand’s Rough Guide To Carbon Offsetting

It is widely accepted that, as a result of increased CO2 production, the world is warming - causing highly unusual, unstable, and destructive weather patterns. The world has (mostly) mobilised to f...

Sealand Gets Selective

Sealand Gets Selective

As many already know, Sealand recently opened its first Experience Store (If you don’t know, find out here). At the heart of the Experience Store is the Concept Room – designed to be interactive, e...

Sealand Opens Its first Experience Store. Frank Rides Big Waves.

Sealand Opens Its first Experience Store. Frank Rides Big Waves.

By any normal standards most weeks in Cape Town are pretty special. By Cape Town standards, last week knocked it out of the park. While the Sealand family were working late into the night to get th...

Understanding Plastic

Understanding Plastic

The full impact that plastic has had on the environment, wildlife, and humans, has not yet been determined. What we have discovered so far is startling and, in recent years, most of us have valiant...

Sealand: The New King of Kong

Sealand: The New King of Kong

It is hard to separate the South African design industry and The Guild Group. Since 2003, Trevyn and Julian McGowan, the organisation’s founders, have provided platforms for South African designers...

Not All Waste Management Is Treated Equal

Not All Waste Management Is Treated Equal

In recent years, society, business and lawmakers have tended to measure sustainability efforts according to rates of recycling. While it has been a welcome shift away from a throw-away culture, suc...

The Dirty Business Of Greenwashing

The Dirty Business Of Greenwashing

In recent years there has been wide spread adoption of a ‘conscious consumer’ culture. While a clear definition is elusive, a conscious consumer, broadly, is one who bases their buying habits on th...

Cederberg Solitude

Cederberg Solitude

Words by Alex Eales Photography by Jasper Eales Growing up on a farm where one was free to roam, barefoot, for hours from home only to return at dark existing on an afternoon snack of shorn sheep’s...

2018: The Year Of The Environment

2018: The Year Of The Environment

Christmas time is here again. At Sealand, our crew is working overtime and Santa Aramex arrives every day in his big red to sleigh to courier Sealand Gear to lucky people all around the world. The ...