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"Hundred Dollar Holiday : The Case For A More Joyful Christmas" by Bill McKibben
One Hundred Dollar Holiday
Story aired: Tuesday, December 21, 2004



Only four more shopping days until Christmas: how much money have you spent so far on gifts? Well, one author proposes spending no more than $100 on the whole holiday. Bill McKibben's book "Hundred Dollar Holiday" suggests that holiday gift buying is just one symptom of a larger problem of over-consumption in our society. He joins us his home outside Middlebury, Vermont.

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Read an essay on the Hundred Dollar Holiday Movement by Bill McKibben
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