1.) Host Peter Berle talks with religious leaders about excessive consumption and the holidays. 2.) Thomas Lalley talks with Bob Lilienfeld, editor of the Use Less Stuff Journal, about the publication. 3.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Professor Owen Gingrich of Harvard University about the winter solstice. 4.) Gary Ferguson, author of "Spirits of the Wild: World's Great Nature Myths", reads a myth about how the first winter solstice came to be in Australia.