Peter Hofman and his wife have lived in Lee since 2013 and before that in New Hampshire. He spent about 20 years during his career on environmental issues. He has been involved with the Lee Greener Gateway Committee (formed around 1990 as the Lee Recycling Committee) since the spring of 2014, and has served as Chair since 2015. In 2016 the Committee was named the Volunteer of the Year by the Lee Chamber of Commerce, and in 2017 Hofman received the Alan Silverstein and Laura Dubester Award for Community Environmental Leadership from the Center for EcoTechnology.