About People & Planet
People & Planet is a small, social enterprise that raises funds for and promotes the work of Australian environment and social justice organisations. Our vision is to help create a more just and environmentally sustainable world.
Every year we publish a diary and calendar featuring 54 amazing images of people and places around the world. Each beautiful image is accompanied by its own, unique story about one of the planet’s social or environmental challenges.
Our diary and calendar also promote the work of our partner network of 49 Australian social justice and environment organisations. Since being established in 2007, sales of the People & Planet Diary and Calendar have helped to raise almost $300,000 for these partner organisations, with over 8,000 copies now published each year.
People and Planet is based in Fitzroy, Victoria.
Environmentally Friendly!
People & Planet is deeply committed to environmental sustainability – our People & Planet Diaries and Calendars are certified 100% Carbon Neutral, and printed on recycled paper using over 90% soy-based inks.
Our office operates on 100% Green Power and 100% recycled paper. We only drink FairTrade tea and coffee and get around Melbourne using bikes, feet & public transport.
Where do the photographs come from?
Each year People & Planet runs an international photography competition themed around the environment and social justice, with the extraordinary winning entries published in our annual diary and calendar. In 2011 People & Planet received over 4,000 entries from 85 countries, including Australia, Burma, India, China, the USA and Iraq.
The People & Planet International Photography Competition 2011 has now closed. The winners have been announced and you can find them here
Who are we?
Michael Cebon – Editor & Publisher
Michael edits and publishes the People & Planet Diary and Calendar. He’s also the founder and general manager of EthicalJobs.com.au, an Australian job-search site that advertises community jobs, non-profit jobs, environmental jobs, and social enterprise jobs for people who want to make the world a better place.
Lexi Randall-L’Estrange – Project Coordinator
Lexi is a trained environmental engineer who has spent the last four years volunteering with Engineers Without Borders Australia, both in Australia and overseas, as well working for Teach For Australia and Habitat For Humanity Vietnam. Lexi’s work in both the private and non-profit sector has given her the opportunity to see the power of collaboration and meaningful partnerships to better serve the environment and society. Her passions are people, partnerships, project management, philosophy, process efficiency, psychedelic rock, progressive politics, poetry and alliteration.
