State columnist Bill Berry says Melissa Scanlan’s new book on cooperatives offers hope, despite challenges. Read the Book Review Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses is published by Yale University Press and outlines how… Read More

Melissa Scanlan will present at the UWM Water Technology Accelerator (WaTA) webinar on Oct. 21, from 10-11 a.m. The topic is “A Blueprint for Creating Sustainable Businesses, Emphasizing the Power and Potential of Cooperative Models.” This is a virtual event… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, was featured on CBS Saturday Morning on Oct. 2, 2021, where she talked about how more intense storms are causing flooding and and raising concerns about drinking water contamination in cities… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, was a guest on WPR’s Larry Meiller Show on Oct. 4. She talked about her recently released book Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy. The book provides a legal blueprint for creating… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, says cities on the Great Lakes such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland will have to adapt to the extreme highs and lows caused by climate change. She was featured on… Read More

The annual celebration of Love Our Great Lakes Day in Port Washington, Wis., on October 10 will feature presentations from Dan Egan, journalist in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Water Policy, and Paul J. Roebber, UWM Innovative Weather… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences, talked with WUWM environmental reporter Susan Bence about the vision she lays out in a new book called “Prosperity In The Fossil Free Economy.” The book… Read More

The Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences has hired its first postdoc water policy specialists: Misbah Husain and Sarah Martinez. Both are Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellows. During their year-long appointments, Husain… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, will be a guest on WPR’s Larry Meiller Show on Oct. 4 from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. She’ll be talking about her upcoming book Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy, which… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, will moderate an online panel on water equity at the Crain’s Forum on August. 26. Achieving water equity across the Great Lakes has been an auspicious goal. Water mismanagement together with… Read More