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Business Sustainability, Innovation and Efficiency  

Jon Dee is an award-winning social entrepreneur, broadcaster and campaigner.  

On Sky News Business channel from July 2015 to November 2017, Jon researched, wrote  and presented 115 episodes of ‘Smart Money’ - a live weekly TV program where he showed  businesses how to become more innovative, efficient and sustainable.  

Companies that Jon interviewed on his programme included Toyota, McDonald’s, KPMG,  SABMiller, Coca-Cola, Westpac, PwC, LEGO, Qantas, BT, Tesla, Accenture, IKEA, M&S,  News Corp, The Body Shop, Fujitsu, KFC, Mirvac, Marriott Hotels, Mars, Jaguar Land  Rover, Sydney Opera House, Coles, Lion, Unilever and many others. 

In total, Jon wrote and presented over 700 different business sustainability news stories and  interviews.  

Within Australia and overseas, Jon has given hundreds of keynote speeches. He also MC’s  events and consults to companies on efficiency, sustainability and change management.  

His guidebooks ‘Sustainable Growth’, ‘EnergyCut’ and ‘EnergySmart’ have shifted over 140,000 copies. Thanks to Government funding, these books can be downloaded for free  from EnergySmartSaver.com.au and JonDee.com/books. 

In Australia, Jon heads up the DoSomething organisation and the RE100 renewable energy  initiative. In his RE100 role, Jon has recruited 15 major Australian businesses with a market  cap of $580 billion. Together these companies have joined RE100 and have committed to  go 100% renewable with their electricity use.  

Globally, over 260 major business have joined RE100. As part of this, Jon is hosting the  RE100 ‘Energy Insights’ global video series where he’s interviewing international business  leaders about their push to go 100% renewable.  

His first video in this series features Jon interviewing Apple’s global sustainability chief Lisa Jackson about Apple going 100% renewable. This can be viewed here: https:// vimeo.com/482323319/2d06a601ab 

Jon also heads up the ‘Smarter Futures’ sustainability solutions channel on Twitter at  twitter.com/Smarter_Futures

Creating Social and Environmental Change  

As a philanthropist, Jon Dee co-founded Planet Ark with Pat Cash in 1991 and ran the  organisation for its first 15 years. As Managing Director he initiated and oversaw the  organisation’s highly successful initiatives and prime time TV advertising campaigns.  

Jon has produced and directed over 300 environmentally focused TV adverts and videos  featuring Tom Cruise, Kylie Minogue, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bob Geldof,  Sir Richard Branson, Greta Scacchi, Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Goldblum and many others.  

Jon is the Global Director of One Tree Per Child which he founded with Olivia Newton-John.  Ambassadors, Supporters and Patrons of the initiative include Archbishop Desmond Tutu,  Lord Stern, Lord Hastings, Costa Georgiadis, Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs and  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall from River Cottage. Jon and Olivia launched it in Australia with  help from Malcolm Turnbull, Greg Hunt and News Corp.  

Jon and Olivia also founded Australia’s highly successful National Tree Day. Together they  fronted the event for the community planting of its first 10 million trees.  

Jon is also the Managing Director of The DoSomething Foundation, a registered charity that  he co-founded in 2007 with Pat Cash and Tina Jackson. The organisation seeks to bring  about positive social and environmental change.  

As a campaigner he founded National Recycling Week, National Leftovers Day and  DoSomething Day. Over 60 News Corp newspapers support the last DoSomething Day  initiative to promote volunteering in the community. 

In 2012 Jon founded National Op Shop Week, which was run with Salvos Stores, Vinnies  and The Red Cross. He also initiated the highly successful RecyclingNearYou.com.au,  DoSomethingNearYou.com.au and FoodWise.com.au websites.  

In 1989, Jon founded Rock Aid Armenia for which he recruited the support of leading rock  bands such as Pink Floyd, Queen, Bon Jovi, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple  and many more. 

Jon had a top 40 UK hit with his all-star version of ‘Smoke on the Water’ and his  ‘Earthquake Album’ was the first UK charity album to go ‘gold’, selling 100,000 copies in  10 days. Jon’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ music video has been viewed 15 million times and can  be viewed here: JonDee.info/smokeonthewater 

Together with Ara Tadevosyan, Jon initiated the building of a brand new music school in the  earthquake zone. Opened in 2013, it now teaches 220 children a year.  

Jon was a member of the environment committee for the Sydney 2000 bid which oversaw  the development of the Environmental Guidelines for the 2000 Games. 

In 1994 he also recruited Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to front the ‘Green Games’ video.  Jon’s video of Tom and Nicole got more international PR than any other part of the Sydney  2000 bid. That video can be viewed here:

Phaseout Campaigns  

In 2005, Jon initiated the Ban The Bulb campaign that led to Australia phasing out of  incandescent globes. This move has saved Australians billions of dollars in energy bills.  

In 2010-11 Jon initiated and ran the successful campaign to bring about a voluntary industry  ban on phosphates in household laundry detergents. As a result, the 2 billion laundry  washes carried out in Australia every year are now phosphate-free.  

Jon has also played a key role in the national campaign to ban plastic bags. Jon and Ben  Kearney co-organised Australia’s first plastic bag ban in Coles Bay Tasmania. Jon then  worked with the South Australian and Tasmanian governments in bringing about their plastic  bag bans. In 2016, then Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt publicly acknowledged  Jon’s major role in the phaseout of plastic bags.  

In 2014, Jon launched a campaign to phase out plastic microbeads in personal care  products. Jon managed to get key companies to agree to phase out their use. This  campaign led to the nationally agreed phase out plan for plastic microbeads. As of July  2018, personal care products in Australia no longer contain polluting plastic microbeads.  

Major Awards  

Jon was made Australian of the Year 2010 (NSW). In 2009, the President of Armenia  awarded Jon ‘The Order Of Honor’ for his work in the earthquake zone. The medal is  Armenia’s highest honour and Jon received permission from the Queen to accept it.  

Sky News promos for Jon Dee’s ’Smart Money’ TV series.  

The Bristol Business Summit:  

Electric Car Special:  

Kevin McCloud interview:  

100th edition of ’Smart Money’:  

Canon and The Body Shop:  

London live special and Qantas: