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Professionally, Jon Dee is best known as the founder of Planet Ark and World Environment News. He is also the presenter of the 'Tipping Point' TV series on The Weather Channel and is a regular guest on 'The Today Show' on Channel Nine. He is the Managing Director of Issues Solutions and writes the 'Eco-Agogo' environment column in Australia's biggest read weekly magazine 'Sunday' - which is distributed with The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Herald-Sun. The column now also runs in The Sunday Times 'STM' magazine in WA. He also has a number of regular environment columns in Australian motoring magazines. Jon was the spokesperson for the Australian release of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth DVD. In June 2007, he spoke at the House of Lords to launch his 14 country 'World Environment Review' poll, which was carried out in partnership with GMIPoll from Seattle. In addition to founding Planet Ark in partnership with close friend Pat Cash, Jon also founded a number of Planet Ark initiatives - namely National Tree Day, World Environment News, RecyclingNearYou.com.au and The National Recycling Hotline, to name but a few. Jon is the Chairman of Planet Ark. Prior to this, Jon was the organisation's Managing Director - a role he held for 15 years after he and Pat started the organisation back in June 1991. In his time at Planet Ark, Jon directed and produced over 300 TV and radio adverts featuring people such as Tom Cruise, Kylie Minogue, Sir Richard Branson, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Olivia Newton-John, Rolf Harris and many others. Jon is married to Leanne Dee and they have two daughters - Estelle, who is four, going on fourteen, and Claudia who was born on Oct 20th 2007. Jon and Lee met in London back in 1991 - they live in Yosemite in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney.