Lampke Joins Champlain Initiative As Director

Barry Lampke, the former Development and Communications Director for Smart Growth Vermont, has recently joined the Champlain Initiative as its Director. Created in 1996, the Champlain Initiative is a community partnership with the goal of strengthening the Champlain Valley as a healthy community over a 20-year period.
The former Marketing Project Manager with the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Lampke helped launch Efficiency Vermont, the nation's first energy efficiency utility. He was previously Executive Director of the Association of Vermont Recyclers and was a planner with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. In Washington, DC, Barry served as Project Director for OMB Watch's Toxics Project and was a contributing author of "The Poisoned Well," a groundwater protection book published by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
"I'm thrilled to join this unique partnership of organizations and institutions working on creative, multi-sector solutions to our community's challenges," says Lampke. "Together, we are collaborating on a wide range of issues, including chronic disease prevention, energy planning, strategic use of information and communications technologies, and the changing face of our community's population." Lampke lives in Hinesburg with his wife and family.