Roger D. Stone is an environmentalist, journalist, author, nonprofit executive, and the author of Dreams of Amazonia, which was called "first rate" and "masterful." As a World Wildlife Federation vice president and founder and president of the nonprofit Sustainable Development Institute, he has produced four other well received books on an environmental-economic connections with an emphasis on tropical forests and seacoasts. Among them are The Voyage of the Sanderling, The Nature of Development, and Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit. Stone is a member of the External Advisory Board for Yale's multi-disciplinary Institute for Biospheric Studies, and serves on numerous boards and committees. A resident of Washington, D.C., he publishes the nonprofit newsletter Atlantic CoastWatch.
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"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 D. 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... 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