Internationally, Jon Dee is best known as the founder of Planet Ark, 'World Environment News' and his 14 country 'World Environment Review' poll.
Some of Jon's initiatives have become role models for international change. He initiated the successful lobbying campaign for Australia's 3 year phase-out of incandescent light globes - a move that has since been copied by other countries.
Jon has also spearheaded the highly successful media campaign to phase-out Australia's usage of plastic bags. This campaign led to a recent Government announcement that Australia will phase-out free plastic bags by the end of 2008. One of the key drivers for this campaign took places five years ago, when Jon and Ben Kearney got the Tasmanian town of Coles Bay to become Australia's first plastic bag free town. Since then, many communities around the world have used this town as their role model for taking similar action. Indeed, Jon was Rebecca Hosking's key advisor in telling her how to turn Modbury into Britain's first plastic bag free town.
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