His dedication has seen him receive a Centenary Medal in 2003 from the Prime Minister of Australia in recognition of his efforts towards charity and Australian television. He is an Ambassador and Advocate for the following organisations:
In September 2007, Jamie was one of 160 Australians selected and
trained by The Honourable Al Gore to become an official presenter for
The Climate Project – Al Gore’s climate change leadership programme with
the ACF. Part of Jamie’s role is to present a minimum of ten climate
change slide shows using the Al Gore presentation made famous in his
Oscar winning environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Jamie also supports GreenHome – ACF’s program assisting Australians
to make their homes, gardens and lives more environmentally sustainable.
www.acfonline.org.au
Planet Ark
Ambassador, 15 years
Planet Ark's
aim is to show people and businesses the many ways they can reduce
their day-to-day impact on the environment – at home, at work and in
the community.
Jamie is an ambassador for Planet Ark’s annual National Tree Day,
Australia's biggest community tree-planting event. Since Tree Day
started in 1996 more than 2 million volunteers have planted over 12.7
million native trees and shrubs. In 2008, Jamie’s radio and television
campaign helped encourage almost 400,000 people to plant 1.2 million
trees at 3400 sites around Australia.
In 2004 Jamie also took on another Planet Ark ambassadorial role,
promoting the recycling of printer cartridges. Extensive radio and
television campaigns are also part of his annual ambassador program.
www.planetark.org
www.treeday.planetark.org
Plan International
Ambassador & Child Sponsor, 8 years
Jamie has been a Plan Ambassador since 2002 and currently sponsors
two children through Plan – Aramazan, 11, from Uganda; and Ainiyatul, 10,
from Indonesia.
Jamie has travelled to Sri Lanka and to Uganda to meet his
sponsored children and to experience first hand Plan's child–centered
community development at work. While in Uganda in 2006, Jamie also
visited Plan's HIV/AIDS programs to film and produce a documentary
titled
Jamie's Journey: Hope for Uganda's Children, which screened on both the Nine Network and Seven Network in Australia.
“I went to Uganda to find out how I could support these amazing
people. I am doing that in the best way I know how – to communicate their
story to as many people as possible, in the hope we can provide more
support through child sponsorship and regular donations,” says Jamie.
In 2007, Jamie chose Plan as his charity of choice when he competed on the Seven Network’s popular Australian TV series
Dancing with the Stars.In September 2008 Jamie travelled to India to film a television special called Jamie’s Journey with the Children of India
showing Plan's involvement in early childhood care and development in
India. This will screen on the Seven Network (Australia) in 2009. Read more about Jamie's journey to India in his diary.
www.plan.org.au
www.plan-international.org
Ambassador & former Board member, 6 years
Sydney’s Botanic Gardens Trust is committed to what has become
known as ‘sustainable horticulture’. A 190–year old organisation
devoted to the study and display of plants – including innovative
planting methods, modern design, practical approaches to water
conservation, integrated pest management and soil improvement – the
Trust manages some of the most striking cultural and historical
landscapes in Australia: the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain on Sydney
Harbour, Mount Tomah Botanic Garden in the Blue Mountains and Mount
Annan Botanic Garden in Western Sydney.
The Royal Botanic Gardens is a place of natural beauty, where
people come for peace, relaxation, education, and to learn more about
plants and horticulture. The surrounding parkland of the Domain is a
place for sport, entertainment and recreation.
In 2004 Jamie was commissioned to
design a permanent feature in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, an
environmentally sound sculpture utilising
recycled steel and waterwise succulent plants. In 2004 he also donated
a rammed earth wall garden featuring Australian native plants that he
designed for Sydney in Bloom to the Mount Annan Botanic Garden, it too becoming becoming a permanent feature of the garden.
Jamie has been a Board member and is now an Ambassador of the Royal Botanic Gardens Trust.
www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Forest Stewardship Council
Ambassador, 3 years
The
FSC
is an international, not-for-profit, membership-based organisation with
a mission to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial
and economically viable management of the world’s forests.
Jamie's involvement with FSC began with the quest to make all timber
furniture within the Patio By Jamie Durie range FSC certified. Launched
in 2003, the PATIO by Jamie Durie range (available exclusively to Big W
stores throughout Australia) includes a large selection of timber
outdoor furniture that is all certified to FSC standards, helping to
ensure our high level of commitment to the environment, sustainable
design and sustainable practices at both the forest manager and
manufacturing stages of production.
When you buy products with the FSC logo, your purchase is supporting
healthy forests and strong communities. Under FSC certification,
forests are certified against a set of strict environmental and social
standards, and material from certified forests is tracked all the way
to the consumer through the chain of custody certification system.
In his role as Ambassador of The FSC, Jamie recently launched the
Greenpeace Good Wood Guide and Joint Statement on illegal logging, in a call to halt illegal
timber imports and encourage Australians to buy legally sourced timber. See
www.goodwoodguide.org.au and
www.saynotobadwood.org.au
www.fscaustralia.org
Earth Hour - a World Wildlife Fund initiative
Ambassador, 1 Year
Earth Hour is an Australian initiative coordinated by the World
Wildlife Fund. In 2007, 2.2 million people took part in the world's
first Earth Hour in Sydney, Australia. Communities, businesses and
governments were encouraged to switch off their lights for one hour in
order to send a powerful global message to world leaders about climate
change.
By 2008, 50 million people in 370 cities and towns, in more than 35
countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour. Earth
Hour 2009 aimed to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities
around the world.
The United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December
2009 will create a post–Kyoto Protocol agreement to tackle climate
change. Earth Hour 2009 aims to encourage world leaders to take a brave
stand at this conference and agree to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas
emissions.
Jamie is a
2009 Earth Hour Ambassador.
www.earthhour.org
In 2008, in addition to his role as a presenter for The Climate Project and an Ambassador for WWF’s
to further his commitment to
tackling climate change in his own workplace. For the financial year
2007/2008, Jamie offset greenhouse gas emissions created by
electricity, transport, freight and air travel associated with his
businesses, with the highest level program – Gold Standard renewable energy carbon credits.
