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Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, will be speaking on a virtual panel about the legacy of the Clean Water Act hosted by the University of Florida on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The panel is free and is part of the 28th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference.

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Milwaukee’s lakefront is unique, not only in its beauty, but because much of it is actually filled lakebed.

W51���� Environmental Reporter Susan Bence interviewed Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, and Sarah Martinez, water quality specialist, about the need to protect Milwaukee’s Fresh Coast and how the Public Trust Doctrine does just that. Residents currently have the opportunity to weigh in on what one day could become another public space along Milwaukee’s Fresh Coast, thanks to a years’ long clean up of the Milwaukee estuary.

UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Water Policy hosted a live webinar on Jan. 19, 2022, to educate the public about Milwaukee’s Fresh Coast and the public’s rights to access it.

In Milwaukee, the state legislature granted municipal governments the right to build new land along the coastline. These projects on lakebed fill must accommodate the public trust doctrine.

Sarah Martinez, SeaGrant Water Science-Policy Fellow with the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee’s School for Freshwater Sciences, offered details about an upcoming CLE program that discusses issues surrounding lakebed fill projects on the Environmental Law Section Blog. Martinez will be part of an educational CLE Zoom forum on Jan. 19, 2022, entitled “.”

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Melissa Scanlan talked about ecology and co-ops on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff, an production. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff interviews Prof. Melissa Scanlan on her new book showing how coops are a better bet than traditional capitalist corporations to solve current ecological crises.

Melissa Scanlan’s (director of the Center for Water Policy) book, “Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses,” was included on a list of  in Orion Magazine.

What do the past and future entail for the Great Lakes? Dan Egan, Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at the Center for Water Policy in 51����’s School of Freshwater Sciences, spoke with W51����’s Environmental Reporter Susan Bence on Dec. 1, 2021.

This event was part of the 51���� Alumni Association Mobile Master Chat Series and was sponsored by the Center for Water Policy and W51����.

The Nov. 25, 2021, episode of Curious Campus talks with Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee, about cooperatives and her new book, “.”

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State columnist Bill Berry says Melissa Scanlan’s new book on cooperatives offers hope, despite challenges.

is published by Yale University Press and outlines how cooperative business models can move the needle in the right direction to help mitigate climate change, pay living wages and serve communities.

Melissa Scanlan will present at the 51���� 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.”

Scanlan is the Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water Policy and directs the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences. Her book came out in September.

Drawing on her extensive experience founding and directing social enterprises and her interviews with sustainability leaders, Scanlan provides a legal blueprint for creating alternate corporate business models that mitigate climate change, pay living wages, and act as responsible community members. With an emphasis on cooperatives and their international identity based on shared values and principles, her book reveals the power and potential of cooperating as a unifying concept around which to design social enterprise achieving triple bottom-line results: for society, the environment, and finance.

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 , which will be released the end of September. The book provides a legal blueprint for creating alternate corporate business models that mitigate climate change, pay living wages, and act as responsible community members.