The Mightier Hudson
The Spirited Revival of a Treasured Landscape
By Roger D. Stone
(Lyons Press, Hardcover, 9780762763955, 264pp.)
Publication Date: May 2012
Categories: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
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The amazing story of the transformation of the Hudson River; a tale of environmental, economic, cultural and political success.
Roger D. Stone, environmentalist, journalist, author, and nonprofit executive, is the author of Dreams of Amazonia, The Voyage of the Sanderling, The Nature of Development, and Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit. A resident of Washington, DC, Stone also publishes the nonprofit newsletter Atlantic CoastWatch.
The historic Hudson River Valley is unquestionably one of America's
> most storied places, but over the years it had been much abused. Now,
> as Roger Stone tells us in The Mightier Hudson, communities up and
> down the river are creatively using its natural and cultural resources
> to build a new economy designed to sustain both those resources and
> the livelihoods of the people who live there. By effectively putting
> the lie to the false choice between economic progress and
> environmental protection, it is an important and uplifting story that
> should be read, and applied, by those living in communities along
> waterways everywhere.
>
> Richard Moe, President Emeritus, National Trust for Historic
> Preservation
>
The historic Hudson River Valley is unquestionably one of America's
> most storied places, but over the years it had been much abused. Now,
> as Roger Stone tells us in The Mightier Hudson, communities up and
> down the river are creatively using its natural and cultural resources
> to build a new economy designed to sustain both those resources and
> the livelihoods of the people who live there. By effectively putting
> the lie to the false choice between economic progress and
> environmental protection, it is an important and uplifting story that
> should be read, and applied, by those living in communities along
> waterways everywhere.
>
> Richard Moe, President Emeritus, National Trust for Historic
> Preservation
>
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