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| 2024 | Wozniak sued YouTube regarding a scam using his likeness and later won after a court ruled YouTube liable for not addressing the issue. |
| 2024 | The Project for Awesome raised over $3.5 million in its annual telethon-style fundraiser. |
| 2024 | Green described his upcoming book in February 2024 as intertwining the history of tuberculosis with a contemporary story of personal experience. |
| October 2024 | Green announced his second nonfiction book titled Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, set to release in March 2025. |
| August 2024 | Green participated in a lawsuit against the state of Florida, alongside multiple publishers and authors, over the state's book-banning law. |
| May 2 2024 | The film adaptation of Green's book Turtles All the Way Down was released on Max, where Green makes a cameo as Mr. Adler. |
| March 2024 | Green and his family pledged $1 million a year through 2027 to combat tuberculosis in the Philippines. |
| March 2024 | The CDC named John Green a 2024 'TB Elimination Champion' and he published another op-ed in The Washington Post on tuberculosis diagnostics. |
| 2023 | In 2023, Wozniak signed an open letter from the Future of Life Institute, calling for a six-month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. |
| 2023 | The Project for Awesome raised over $3 million in its annual telethon-style fundraiser. |
| December 2023 | Wozniak became a Serbian citizen and announced plans to promote Serbia while living in the U.S. |
| November 2023 | Wozniak suffered a minor stroke while preparing to speak at a conference in Mexico City but was hospitalized briefly before returning home. |
| November 2023 | Green joined a lawsuit against the state of Iowa regarding a new law that banned books depicting sex acts from schools. |
| September 22 2023 | Green attended and briefly spoke at a high-level United Nations meeting on tuberculosis. |
| August 2023 | The Fault in Our Stars was removed from the young adult section of a library in Fishers, Indiana, which prompted Green to respond with a letter to the library's board. |
| August 2023 | The subscription services were branded under the common name 'Good.Store'. |
| July 2023 | Green urged Cepheid to lower the cost of their GeneXpert test cartridges to $5, which resulted in a partial price reduction by Danaher Corporation. |
| June 2023 | Green's awareness campaign led to public backlash against Johnson & Johnson for evergreening the patent of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline. |
| May 2023 | In May 2023, Wozniak commented in an interview with the BBC that AI's intelligence could make scams more difficult to detect, noting concerns about the potential misuse of AI by bad actors. |
| May 2023 | Green published an op-ed in The Washington Post advocating for increased global access to the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline. |
| May 19 2023 | Wozniak received an Honorary Doctoral degree from Lincoln Law School in San Jose, California. |
| April 2023 | A third subscription service called 'Sun Basin Soap' was announced by John and Hank Green. |
| 2022 | Wozniak received the museum's Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in the invention of the Apple I & II computers and the co-founding of Apple. |
| 2022 | He appeared as himself in Episode 7 of the TV show 'Welcome to Wrexham'. |
| 2022 | John Green made a cameo in Season 3, Episode 3 of the YouTube series 'Jet Lag: The Game'. |
| 2022 | Partners In Health received over $1 million during the 2022 Project for Awesome fundraiser, following a tribute written by John Green for the late PIH co-founder Paul Farmer. |
| 2022 | John Green wrote the foreword for The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us, authored by David Baker. |
| 2022 | John Green became a member of the board of trustees for Partners in Health. |
| December 2022 | In December 2022, John Green left Twitter in response to policy changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform. |
| October 2022 | In October 2022, John Green delivered the opening lecture titled 'How the World Ends' at Harvard University's 2022 William Belden Noble Lecture series. |
| October 2022 | Green discussed book banning at an event hosted by Indiana State Senator Andrea Hunley at the Indianapolis Central Library. |
| September 2022 | A group of parents attempted to ban John Green's novel 'Looking for Alaska' from all Orange County, Florida, school libraries. |
| August 2022 | Hank Green reported that the 'Awesome Socks Club' had over 40,000 subscribers and 'Awesome Coffee Club' had over 10,000 subscribers. |
| April 2022 | The Anthropocene Reviewed was selected as the 2022 common read at the University of Mississippi, where Green delivered a keynote address at the university's annual fall convocation. |
| March 2022 | John and Hank Green started the 'Awesome Coffee Club', a subscription service with a similar model to the Awesome Socks Club, featuring ethically sourced coffee from Colombia. |
| March 1 2022 | Privateer Space debuted the first version of its space traffic monitoring software. |
| 2021 | Wozniak received the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers. |
| 2021 | John Green won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction for 'The Anthropocene Reviewed'. |
| 2021 | John Green's 'The Anthropocene Reviewed' was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. |
| September 2021 | Wozniak was reported to be starting a company named Privateer Space, addressing the issue of space debris. |
| September 2021 | John Green advocated for refugee education by writing an op-ed published in The Independent. |
| August 2021 | John Green ended The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast after releasing 36 episodes. |
| July 2021 | Wozniak made a Cameo video in response to right to repair activist Louis Rossmann, expressing his emotional connection to the issue. |
| May 2021 | Green hosted a virtual book tour for The Anthropocene Reviewed, featuring guests such as Clint Smith, Latif Nasser, Sarah Urist Green, Hank Green, and Ashley C. Ford. |
| May 18 2021 | Green published The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, his first nonfiction book and sixth solo publication, which debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. |
| April 2021 | Wozniak became a panelist for the new TV series Unicorn Hunters, a business investment show produced by the makers of The Masked Singer. |
| April 2021 | Groundbreaking for the Maternal Center of Excellence occurred in Sierra Leone, with plans for it to support maternal health care. |
| 2020 | Wozniak announced the launch of Efforce, a marketplace for funding ecologically friendly projects, utilizing a WOZX cryptocurrency token. |
| 2020 | The Chinese film A Little Red Flower was released, noted for significant similarities to The Fault in Our Stars. |
| 2020 | John Green won the Indiana Arts Commission Governor's Arts Award. |
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