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Subhankar Banerjee

Subhankar Banerjee founded ClimateStoryTellers.org in August 2010. Subhankar is an Indian–born American photographer, writer, and activist. Over the past decade he has worked tirelessly for the conservation of ecoculturally significant areas of the Arctic, and to raise awareness about indigenous human rights and climate change. He recently edited an anthology titled, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (New York: Seven Stories Press, June 2012). His first book, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land (Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2003), has become an influential conservation document. His photographs have been exhibited in more than fifty museums, and will be shown at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012. He has given more than one hundred lectures, including at the United Nations, and Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. His academic appointments have included Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Forbes College, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fordham University, Visiting Scholar at the University of Utah, and Artist–in–Residence at Dartmouth College. In 2011, he was named a Distinguished Alumni by New Mexico State University. Subhankar received a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, a Greenleaf Artist Award from the UN Environment Programme, national conservation awards from the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club, and was named an Arctic Hero by the Alaska Wilderness League. You can visit his personal website by clicking here.

An Ode to Seasons for Peter Matthiessen
by Subhankar Banerjee, 6 April 2014 | Read Story  


Beautiful Sunsets (and Sunrises) in Art
by Subhankar Banerjee, 31 March 2014 | Read Story  


On Climate Impasse: Appetite and Substitutes
by Subhankar Banerjee, 27 March 2014 | Read Story  


Interpreting the Climate Impasse: A View from Indo–America
by Subhankar Banerjee, 26 February 2014 | Read Story  


Destabilization of Arctic Sea Ice Would Be Game Over for Climate
by Subhankar Banerjee, September 27, 2013 | Read Story  


Colorado’s Thousand–Year Flood
Repeated assaults culminate with epic floods in Colorado
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 16, 2013 | Read Story  


Boulder Flooding: Remembering Warnings from Weather Report
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 13, 2013 | Read Story  


Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
By Subhankar Banerjee, July 29, 2013 | Read Story  


Independence from Terror
By Subhankar Banerjee, July 4, 2013 | Read Story  


Laughing Matters: US Government v. Voices of Conscience
By Subhankar Banerjee, June 19, 2013 | Read Story  


Revisiting An Arctic Tale of Ice and Shell
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 13, 2012 | Read Story  


Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell’s Arctic Drilling
By Subhankar Banerjee, August 30, 2012 | Read Story  


Walking the Waters
How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans
By Subhankar Banerjee, August 2, 2012 | Read Story  


Let US Conjoin Arctic and Niger When We Talk About Shell’s Drilling
By Subhankar Banerjee, June 6, 2012 | Read Story  


Shell Wants To Sail With A Record That Is Totally Stale
By Subhankar Banerjee, March 5, 2012 | Read Story  


How “Drill, Baby, Drill” and “Yes We Can” Got Married
By Subhankar Banerjee, March 2, 2012 | Read Story  


How the New Mexico Anti–Nuclear Campaign Achieved A Major Victory
By Subhankar Banerjee, February 23, 2012 | Read Story  


BPing the Arctic, Again — Fast Tracking Shell’s Dangerous Drilling
By Subhankar Banerjee, August 15, 2011 | Read Story  


“Another Kind of Fukushima?” Asks Whistleblower Robert Gilkeson
By Subhankar Banerjee, July 18, 2011 | Read Story  


Las Conchas Fire Woke Us Up—Let Us Now Stop The Plutonium Bomb Factory
By Subhankar Banerjee, July 1, 2011 | Read Story  


New Mexico Is Burning With Potential For Nuclear Contamination
By Subhankar Banerjee, June 28, 2011 | Read Story  


Who Is Tim DeChristopher?
From Coal Belt, Through Mountain Trails, On Route To Obama’s Prison Cell
By Subhankar Banerjee, June 16, 2011 | Read Story  


Subhankar Banerjee Conversation with Dr. Helen Caldicott
Presented by IfYouLoveThisPlanet.org, April 11, 2011 | Listen Online  


Tim DeChristopher Is Convicted: We’re Blowing This Moment, Too
By Subhankar Banerjee, March 10, 2011 | Read Story  


India Must Free Binayak Sen Immediately
By Subhankar Banerjee, March 7, 2011 | Read Story  


From Toilet to Planet: A Brief Journey of Survival
By Subhankar Banerjee, February 10, 2011 | Read Story  


Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Will Drop
By Subhankar Banerjee, February 3, 2011 | Read Story  


House Rhetoricians v. Santa’s Reindeers
By Subhankar Banerjee, January 19, 2011 | Read Story  


We Have the Technology—Let’s Go
By Subhankar Banerjee, December 8, 2010 | Read Story  


After The Arctic Spill—Shell, Palin and Obama
By Subhankar Banerjee, December 6, 2010 | Read Story  


Cancún Opens for GREEN Business But REDD Will Destroy Indigenous Forest Cultures
By Subhankar Banerjee, November 29, 2010 | Read Story  


Thankful for Polar Bear Habitat But Shell Must Not Go There
By Subhankar Banerjee, November 26, 2010 | Read Story  


STOP: Another One Hundred Years of Fossil–Digging in North America?
By Subhankar Banerjee, November 15, 2010 | Read Story  


Youth Across North America Are Fighting For Their Future Climate
By Subhankar Banerjee, October 4, 2010 | Read Story  


Shell’s “Let’s Go” Ad in HuffPo
Why We Mustn’t Allow Shell to Go ... to America’s Arctic Seas
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 16, 2010 | Read Story  


Climate Educators Wanted
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 13, 2010 | Read Story  


Letter to Young Americans
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 9, 2010 | Read Story  


Senator Barbara Boxer –– Her Reelection –– Our New Climate Movement
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 3, 2010 | Read Story  


Could This Be A Crime?
U.S. Climate Bill Is Dead While So Much Life On Our Earth Continues To Perish
By Subhankar Banerjee, August 26, 2010 | Read Story  


BPing the Arctic?
Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil To Do to the Arctic What BP did to the Gulf?
By Subhankar Banerjee, May 25, 2010 | Read Story