Freshwater High School science teacher, Sue Lennox, and her year nine students win a United Nations Media Peace Prize for their environmental river work at Curl Curl Lagoon.

Sue Lennox and her husband Colin leave their jobs as teachers and establish OzGREEN with the intention of empowering and supporting young people to care for their local environment.

OzGREEN designs and develops a suite of award winning programs:

• My River

• Youth Lead

• Youth Leading the World

OzGREEN relocates from Sydney to Bellingen.

OzGREEN develops relationships with people and organisations on the North and Mid North Coast and continues to deliver its flagship programs.

Following a mass mortality event that killed approximately 90% of the Bellinger River Snapping turtle population, OzGREEN works with government and other organisations to establish Bellingen Riverwatch, a citizen science water quality monitoring program.

OzGREEN continues to deliver Bellingen Riverwatch, but otherwise, beomes dormant while Sue Lennox grieves the sudden passing of her husband.

Sue Lennox invites Anton Juodvalkis to become OzGREEN’s Chief Executive Officer.

OzGREEN:

• Pilots Resilient Communities, a community resilience program with 8 groups, involving 145 participants in Bellingen Shire.

• Pilots a Riverbank Restoration program, planting 300 trees on the Bellinger River.

OzGREEN:

• Launches Bellingen Riverwatch’s macroinvertebrate monitoring program (requested by the turtle recovery team).

• Delivers Resilient Communities in the Byron Shire.

• Delivers MyRiver in Coffs Harbour.

• Delivers Youth Leading the World camp in Dorrigo.

• Delivers Changemakers as a follow up program to Youth Leading the World.

• Delivers Food Resilience Vision for Bellingen Shire.

• Pilots a range of Nature Connection events for adults.

OzGREEN :

• Expands its Resilient Communities program to Kempsey Shire, Nambucca Shire, Coffs Harbour, Clarence Valley, Kyogle Shire and Richmond Valley.

• Partners with local psychologists to deliver a personal resilience program.

• Launches Rethink Waste, initially focussed on single-use plastic and then expanding to many types of waste.

OzGREEN:

• Delivers its inaugral Thrive Festival in partnership with community.

• Employs its second Youth Activities Coordinator.

• Commences its Youth Inspiring Youth project.

• Pilots a range of Nature Connection events for young people.

• Pilots Campme, a wellbeing camp for young people.

• Pilots waste workshops with schoo groups.

OzGREEN:

• Works with a vast number of community partners to launch Riveryouthfest, a youth-focused tree planting project at the Bellingen Skatepark.

• Pilots myhive in Coffs Harbour.

Anton Juodvalkis invites Kathleen Hannah and Amy Denshire to become OzGREEN’s Co-Chief Executive Officers.