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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Karla",sans-serif;color:#242424">Hi MassPlanners – sharing this as the topic is of interest to many communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:#253746">Growing Solar, Protecting Nature</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="line-height:17.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Karla",sans-serif;color:#242424">A major report published by Mass Audubon and Harvard Forest -
<i>Growing Solar, Protecting Nature</i> - is now available. Massachusetts needs a lot more solar energy to meet our climate goals. But the way we’ve been siting solar has come at too high a cost to nature thus far. This report shows that we have enough space
on existing rooftops, parking lots, and already-developed lands to scale up solar without sacrificing the benefits provided by our natural and working lands. We don’t need to choose between growing solar and protecting nature. To fight the climate crisis,
our report shows that we must do both.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Karla",sans-serif;color:#242424"><a href="https://www.massaudubon.org/ma_user/our-work/publications-resources/growing-solar-protecting-nature" title="https://www.massaudubon.org/ma_user/our-work/publications-resources/growing-solar-protecting-nature">Learn
more > </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Karla",sans-serif;color:#242424">Heidi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">E. Heidi Ricci
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</b>Director of Policy<i> </i>and Advocacy </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></i><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Mass Audubon</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
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208 S. Great Road, Lincoln, MA 01773 <br>
<a href="mailto:hricci@massaudubon.org"><span style="color:blue">hricci@massaudubon.org</span></a>
</span><span style="color:black;background:#FAF9F8;mso-ligatures:none">|</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> 781-259-2172 or 721-622-8911 (cell) </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="http://www.massaudubon.org"><span style="color:blue">massaudubon.org</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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