Program encourages kids to bike to school

Our series of interviews with people who are working to improve the environment continues with a look at how school kids are lessening their carbon footprints. Jane Lindholm checks in on the Safe Routes to School program that encourages walking and biking, rather that driving to school.

Midday Report: August 3, 2007

The state begins inspections on eight highway bridges similar in design to the one that failed this week in Minnesota; the bike ferry between Colchester and South Hero begins its seventh season this weekend; Congress is about to go on vacation for the rest of August, and there’s been something of a flurry of activity before the recess; five avid hunters are willing to pay a lot of money to try to bag a moose this fall.