Activities Since Leaving Political Office
After leaving office, Lamm has continued to speak publicly on environmental, immigration reduction, and health care issues.
In 2004 Lamm unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club. He urged that the Sierra Club advocate immigration controls as a way to limit environmental degradation due to population growth. During a 2011 interview, Lamm clarified that he believes "legal immigration has been good for America. The success of Silicon Valley shows we need entrepreneurial immigrants with skills to bring to our country!”
Lamm serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and on the Board of Directors of the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America (DASA). He is currently the Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver. He authored a book, The Brave New World of Health Care, a criticism of current United States health care policies and proposals for reforming them. (Fulcrum Publishing, ISBN 1-55591-510-8) Lamm also served on the board of directors of American Water Development Inc, along with, among others, Maurice Strong, Samuel Belzberg, Alexander Crutchfield and William Ruckelshaus.
In 2005, a 2004 speech by Lamm titled "I Have a Plan to Destroy America," became famous after being frequently forwarded as an email; in it he criticizes multiculturalism.
In 2006, he wrote Two Wands, One Nation, a controversial essay in which he advocates that black and Hispanic Americans embrace "Japanese or Jewish values". The essay was strongly criticised by some blacks and Hispanics.
Dick Lamm currently sits on the board of directors for the Energy Literacy Advocates.
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