10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
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Treasury of Celebrations:
Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don't Cost the Earth
From Alternatives' Treasury of Celebrations, published by Woodlake/Northstone Books. The entire 288 page book is available for $12.
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TABLE of CONTENTS (for this Web version)
- Introduction
- Preface
- Publication data
- Table of Contents (of the book)
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Simple Living
- From the Beginning...
- If We Sell You Our Land, Love It
- Reverence of Life: A view from the First Nations
- Ten Reasons for Choosing a Simpler Lifestyle
- Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle with a Future?
- Fundamental Change in Values
- The Psychology of Consumption
- How to Live Better With Less - If You Can Stand the People
- What Can One Person Do? Spread the Word!
- Gift Giving
- Giving and Receiving Gifts
- Gifts in the Consumer Society
- Double Your Gift of Love
- The Hidden Price Tag
- On Creative Deprivation
- Choosing and Using Toys
- Toys ARE Us! A Parent's perspective
- Food and Celebration
- Hunger and the Lifestyle Connection
- Food and Celebrations
- Do You Serve Feelings or Food?
- Getting Started
- Family Transition is Half the Battle
- One Family's Program for Change
- Celebrations in Extended, Single Parent, and Blended Families
- Women and Celebration: The Fable of Maybe-Maybe Land
- Socializing
- Alternative Checklist: How Much is Enough?
- The Shakertown Pledge
- Conversion: A Letter from Yola
- Gift planning
- Different Approaches to Gift-giving
- Plants: A Gift of Life
- Give A Tree!
- Making Gifts
- Woods Treasures
- Gift Ideas
- Ideas from Kids
- Make Your Own Greeting Cards
- Gift Wrapping Ideas
- More Gift Ideas
- Some of the Best Christmas Gifts
- Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen
- Books for Teenagers and Adults
- Children's Books are Butterflies
- Beyond Disney, Toward Shalom with Books
- Storytelling
- Prime-time Storytelling
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Jan-Apr
- New Year's and Epiphany
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
- Valentine's Day
- Purim
- Chinese New Year
- Lent
- Central America Week
- International Women's Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- Spring
- Passover
- Ramadan
- Easter
- NEW-Arbor Day, April 25
- NEW-Earth Day, April 22
- NEW-Financial Literacy Month, April
- May-Aug
- May Day
- Pentecost
- Savuot
- Mother's Day and Father's Day
- Memorial Day
- Celebrating Summer
- National Birthdays: Canada Day and Independence Day
- Hiroshima Day
- NEW-World Population Day
- Sep-Dec
- Labor Day
- Rosh Hashana
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Thanksgiving and World Food Day
- United Nations Day
- Halloween
- Remembrance Day (see Memorial Day)
- Hanukkah
- NEW - 9/11
- NEW - Black Friday / Buy Nothing Day, day after Thanksgiving (USA)
- NEW - Indigenous Peoples' Day / Columbus Day, second Mon. in Oct.
- NEW - Veterans Day, Nov. 11
- BONUS: New Fall Festival -- Celebrating Ugly Food
- Advent
- Advent
- Christmas
- Christmas
- Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- Alternative Christmas Congregational Campaign
- Organizing a Festival
- Birth
- Adoption
- Birthdays -- NEW -- Green Birthdays
- Early Passages
- Puberty
- In the Faith Community
- Marriage
- An Alternative Service
- Anniversaries
- Second Marriages
- Retirement
- Divorce
- A Service of Ending and Beginning
- Death
- Hospice Care
- Memorial Societies
- Bequeathal
Appendix | Resource Index | Table of Contents
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