Greener Good

06/01/2026

Our kids' arts and craft camps are the creative outlet your child needs this summer! Each week has a different theme, everything from making miniatures to sewing!
Details and dates: https://greenergood.square.site/shop/camps/5PRGVUOBJQJPWOBUP3QW6KIK

05/31/2026

We have events listed on our registration page through July! Here's just a handful of them: Printmaking fun! Kids Arts & Crafts Camp, Sip and Stitch - 2nd Thursdays, FREE Crafternoon: Father's Day Cards, Visualize Your Future: A Hands-On Vision Board Workshop, plus our Grand Reopening Celebration on June 27.

See the full list and sign up at https://greenergood.square.site/

05/26/2026

Thank you to the Daily Herald's Matt Brady for doing a story on Greener Good and our new location! We are so excited to open the reuse shop on June 17th and to have our big Grand Reopening Celebration on Saturday, June 27th - it will also be our organization's 7th year anniversary too.

The volunteers, community, teachers, donors and amazing creative folks have made this growth possible and won't it be wonderful for new folks to discover what fun we have at Greener Good?!

Want to be part of the group of volunteers making this all possible? Keep your eyes open for our calendar updates (through our volunteer webpage) to see openings starting again in June. We'll be so happy to have volunteers to help with donation drop-offs, sorting donations, supporting shoppers, helping with our open studio days/times, leading workshops.

Amanda Moller can hardly believe the business she co-founded with her mom in her garage nearly seven years ago has grown tenfold. Now, Moller and her mother, Beth Parsons, have shifted their operation...

05/22/2026

Kids love creating with us! Why not sign them up for our Kids Arts & Crafts Camp: Memorial Day THIS MONDAY morning!? We also have Summer Camps where each week has a new theme.

These photos are from yesterday's event at Library District. We had so much fun watching the children let their imaginations come to life. They made rocket ships, the space station, and so much more.

05/19/2026

K - 6th grade Sign up to celebrate Artemis II and space travel. Make a lunar colony, a rocket ship, an alien moon invasion - the stars are the limit to your imagination!!

This Thursday, May 21st
K - 3 is 1 - 2p and registration is at https://www.palatinelibrary.org/event/greener-good-recycled-crafts-k-3-210416

4th - 6th is 2:15 - 3:15p
https://www.palatinelibrary.org/event/greener-good-recycled-crafts-4-6-210417

05/18/2026

There are still spots left to attend our upcoming events including Intro to Cross Stitch on Wednesday, Monday's Kids Arts & Crafts Camp: Memorial Day, the Jewelry Making workshop where you'll learn to make a wire wrap ring, and more!

05/17/2026

We are excited to have an opening date to announce for the creative reuse resale shop - Wednesday, June 17th!!

Our volunteers and staff have been using this extra time to get great secondhand fixtures, organize items, adding a new barcode system for faster checkouts, and getting the backroom ready for donations at the back door. We will resume our open hours as of June 17th: Wednesday to Friday 11a - 6p and Saturdays and Sundays 10a - 3p.

Please RSVP to our Grand Reopening Celebration on Saturday, June 27th (register via our website) and join us for art and craft demonstrations, raffles, the chance to customize your new Greener Good t-shirt, and more!

05/15/2026

Learning to mend your own clothes means less waste! Bring your favorite torn or stained pieces to our Mending Skills: Patching & Beyond class. Register at https://greenergood.square.site