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Climate change on a local level

Ecologist Amy Seidl’s new book, Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World tackles climate change on a local level.  Also, Burlington Free Press reporter Candy Page talks about efforts to convert food waste into energy.

Welch tries to win Democratic support for global warming legislation

Congressman Peter Welch is front-and-center among conservation-minded Democrats eager to take on global warming. Those standing in the way of aggressive legislation aren’t just Republicans. As Elizabeth Wynne Johnson reports, Welch has made it his mission to win over reluctant members of his own party.