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Solar has become one of the least expensive sources for new energy generation and fields of solar panels are appearing everywhere, including on forest and farmland. Most people have a sense that cutting down forests to install solar is not a good idea, but we assume it must be necessary in order to curb climate change. That was the thinking of early legislation passed to fast track solar installations without environmental review. But has that assumption stood up to the facts?<br/><br/>We will explore two aspects of the negative impacts of of solar installations on forest land and the viability of alternatives. Michelle Manion, Vice President of Policy &amp; Advocacy at Mass Audubon will discuss the impacts of current trends in solar installation to nature. She will reveal the conclusions of a study commissioned by Mass Audubon on the true cost of more sustainable alternatives. We will also look at the heat island effect of large solar installations and consider their i

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