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Jennifer worked as an editor at Sierra magazine for 9 years, starting out as a novice on environmental issues and ending up as the Sierra Club’s green lifestyles “expert.”
In 2008, she relocated from her hometown of San Francisco, California, to Istanbul, where she is working as a freelance writer and editor. Besides contributing environmental stories from Turkey and around the region to Treehugger, Jennifer blogs about the trials of learning Turkish and other aspects of being a yabancı (foreigner) in Istanbul. She indulges her passions for travel and photography as often as she possibly can.
Jennifer can be reached at jenniferhattam@treehugger.com.
Recent Posts
11.20.09
Can Turkey Break the Copenhagen Deadlock?
11.18.09
10 Gorgeous Waterfront Campgrounds in the U.S.
11.15.09
Adapting to Climate Change in the Arid Middle East
11.14.09
Fresh Photos of Fresh Kills: A Landfill Transformed
11.13.09
Saudi 'Solution' to Traffic Jams: No Foreign Drivers
11.11.09
The Price of a Pipeline: Rena Effendi's Powerful Photos of Lives Destroyed By the Oil Industry
11. 8.09
'Build Paris on Paris' & Other Good Ideas for Growth
11. 7.09
Walking: An Equal-Opportunity Answer to Traffic Congestion, From New York to New Delhi
11. 6.09
A Garden Blooms Inside a Concrete Cloverleaf
11. 4.09
EU Puts Bulgaria on Notice Over Enviro Negligence
11. 1.09
The Ups and Downs of the World's Most Isolated Sea
10.31.09
October Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
10.30.09
Going Veg Where Doctors Still Promote Meat-Eating
10.28.09
Drought Decimates Kenyan Herders' Net Worth
10.25.09
Turks Take to the Streets, and the Sea, to Demand Action on Global Warming
10.24.09
Diners Dig Into Invasive Lionfish, But Do They Really Care About Saving Coral Reefs?
10.23.09
If Animals Could Talk... They'd Say, 'Keep It Down Out There, We're Trying to Breed!'
10.21.09
Ukraine's Ticking 'Time Bomb': Old Pesticides
10.18.09
Designer's Pick for Hot Winter Fashion: Insulation
10.17.09
ICVolunteers: IT + Education = A Better World
10.16.09
A Chinese Photographer's 'Infernal Landscapes'
10.14.09
Cheetah's Return in the Cards for India?
10.11.09
Arizona Art Museum Seeks to Define Sustainability
10.10.09
African Artisans' Recycled Products Go Global
10. 8.09
9 Ways Climate Change Has Animals Running (Flying and Swimming) for Their Lives
10. 7.09
An Ice Artist's Poignant Plea to Halt Global Warming
10. 4.09
Kenyan Artists Turn Dangerous, Polluting Materials into Inspiring Depictions of Wildlife
10. 3.09
Bicycles for Humanity: Donate Bikes, Change Lives
10. 2.09
Paddlefish and Vultures: Species Lost and Found
09.30.09
September Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
09.27.09
Chasing Orchids and Fireflies in Central Colorado
09.26.09
SAD Fate In Store For Rocky Mountain Aspens?
09.25.09
Climate Change in Alps to Leave Europe High and Dry
09.23.09
Poor Planning Behind Istanbul Deluge
09.20.09
Europe Celebrates Green Ways of Getting Around
09.19.09
Cleaning Up the Olive Oil Business in Syria
09.18.09
Gürsan Ergil on Designing Furniture from Reclaimed Wood: 'The Trees Tell Me What to Do'
09.16.09
8 Environmentalists Who Rule: The Globe's Greenest Royalty
09.13.09
Fascinating Food Stories from the British Library
09.12.09
Turkey's First Luxury LEED Building: Hype or Hope?
09.11.09
Aspiring Peasants Stake Claim to Climate Debate
09. 9.09
Giants Ban Nasty Chemicals... From Team Uniforms
09. 6.09
The UN Greens Its Geneva Headquarters
09. 5.09
Enlightened Mosques Switch to Energy-Saving Lights
09. 4.09
Creating Green Commuters from Scratch in Portland
09. 2.09
Academics, Activists Tackle Climate Change in Turkey
08.30.09
August Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
08.29.09
Fashion Runs in This Family of Organic Trendsetters
08.28.09
Fasting, Praying, and... Going Green: A New Tradition for Ramadan
08.26.09
12 Hip Green Hostels Around the Globe
08.23.09
Boosting Recycling, Scavenger Incomes in Jordan
08.22.09
Cycling Tree-Care Crews Hit D.C. Streets
08.21.09
Dam Plans, and Protests, Spread Across Turkey
08.19.09
8 College-Town Breweries Producing Great, Green Beer
08.16.09
Istanbul Summer Campers Create a New Green Age
08.15.09
Solar-Powered Bags: A Bright Idea for Africa?
08.14.09
Turkey's Greens Target Parliament, Smaller Istanbul
08.12.09
Cook, Build With the Sun and Earth at the Permaship
08. 9.09
Armenian 'Stork Girls' Recruit Local Villagers to Keep an Eye on the Big Birds
08. 8.09
Green Prophet's Top 7 Mideast Eco-Tourism Spots
08. 7.09
Moonlight Walks on the Beach Can Be Perilous (For Sea Turtles, That Is)
08. 5.09
The Heat is On: Summer Fires Rage in Mediterranean
08. 2.09
Critics Choose Istanbul's Subway System Over San Francisco's BART
08. 1.09
Black Sea Floods a Not-So-Natural Disaster
07.31.09
July Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
07.29.09
Turkey's Smoking Ban Not Enough to Clear the Air
07.26.09
Can Turkey's Trashy Coasts Be Transformed?
07.25.09
Fortunes Fade for Fishermen, Marine Life in Lebanon
07.24.09
A Year of Green, Seasonal Eating in Istanbul (Slideshow)
07.22.09
Turkmenistan Starts Building New Desert Sea: Glorious Deed or Disaster Waiting to Happen?
07.19.09
Beaches, Fish Win Big As Turkey Bans Smoking
07.18.09
Nabucco Pipeline Proponents Just Swapping One Kind of Dependency for Another, Critics Say
07.17.09
Organic Agriculture's Growth Spurt in Turkey
07.15.09
12 Hip Green Hostels in North America
07.12.09
Turkey Vows to Build Controversial Dam Despite Iraqi Complaints, Loss of European Support
07.11.09
'I Ride My Bike, I Love Nature,' Say Turkish Cyclists
07.10.09
Istanbul's 'Accidentally Ecofriendly' Architects
07. 8.09
Green Vision for a Place With a Grim Past
07. 5.09
Ankara Garden Plots Going, Going, Gone...
07. 4.09
Yesterday's Old T-Shirt, Today's Cool Reusable Bag
07. 3.09
Students Get 568 Km Per Liter, Hope For More
07. 1.09
Turkish Hunters Give Nature a Hand
06.28.09
June Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
06.27.09
Can a Green-Power Underachiever Reach its Full Potential?
06.26.09
Artists Turn Water Into Masterpieces (Slideshow)
06.24.09
Seeing a Greener Future in a Garbage Dump
06.21.09
Preview: Rhodes Ecofilms Festival Begins This Week
06.20.09
Can a 'Green New Deal' Boost Turkey's Economy Too?
06.19.09
Hydrogen 'Matchmakers' Find Place for Pricey Power in Developing World
06.18.09
Keeping Sewage Out of Turkey's Salt Lake
06.14.09
Monster Tomatoes to Invade Turkey in Bio-Security Bill?
06.13.09
Repaying a Sultan By Replanting a Forest
06.12.09
Turkish Locals: No More Coastal Concrete Jungles!
06.10.09
Global Warming Makes Syrian Villages Ghost Towns
06. 7.09
Don't Leave Us Homeless, Turkish Villagers Say
06. 6.09
Turkey Report: Little to Cheer on World Enviro Day
06. 5.09
Hot Topic in Turkey: Forest-Fire Prevention
06. 3.09
Motor-Oil Collection Helps Clean Up the Commute
05.31.09
May Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
05.30.09
A Princess for the Planet: Morocco's Main Green Gal
05.29.09
'Green Roof' Idea Tilts Skyward in Istanbul
05.24.09
World's Heaviest Energy Users Try to Lighten Up
05.23.09
Fighting to Keep Ancient Turkish City from Becoming a Sunken Treasure
05.22.09
Turkish Dams Leaving Iraqi Fields Thirsting for Water
05.20.09
Plants to Monitor Pollution in Two Turkish Cities
05.17.09
Young Eco-Innovators to Vie for International Prize
05.16.09
Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds
05.15.09
Digital Signatures in Turkey Save 1,600 Trees
05.13.09
Does the Environment Win When Economic Crisis Sends Immigrants Home?
05.10.09
Think Mom's the Best? Share Her With a Sea Turtle
05. 9.09
Welsh Affordable Housing Concept Set to Be 'Overnight' Success
05. 6.09
It's Gonna Take a Lotta Love to Reforest Indonesia
05. 3.09
Top Sony Prize for Photos of the Desert Southwest
05. 2.09
A Young Muslim Diver's Passion for the Sea (Video)
05. 1.09
Country's First National Park an Oasis in War-Torn Afghanistan
04.29.09
April Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
04.18.09
'Green Drinks' Comes to Istanbul on April 28
04.15.09
Get With the Times, Turkey: Coal Plants are Sooo Last Century
04.12.09
Persian Gulf States Go For Plastic Recycling
04.11.09
Istanbul College Celebrates All Things Green
04.10.09
Istanbul Public Transit Proves Up to the Task
04. 8.09
Obama Challenged on Climate During Turkey Trip
04. 5.09
Turkey's Butterfly Bounty Documented in New Report
04. 4.09
Fish Farms Fought on Turkey's Coast
04. 3.09
Exploring Permaculture in the Big City
04. 1.09
Joint EU-Turkey Effort Keeping Aegean Bay Beautiful
03.29.09
March Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
03.28.09
Organic Growers Optimistic Despite Economic Crunch
03.27.09
Himalayan Houseboats Shut Down for Polluting Lake
03.25.09
Turkish Schoolkids Teach, Learn About the Earth
03.22.09
Is Water a 'Right' or a 'Need'?: Day 7 at the World Water Forum
03.21.09
'Another Water Management is Possible': Day 6 at the World Water Forum
03.20.09
Understanding the Sacred Value of Water: Day 5 at the World Water Forum
03.19.09
Images of Inundation: Day 4 at the World Water Forum
03.18.09
Accounting for Every Drop: Day 3 at the World Water Forum
03.17.09
Linking Water, Conflict, Gender, and Migration: Day 2 at the World Water Forum
03.16.09
What is this 'Big Water Meeting'? Day 1 at the World Water Forum
03.14.09
Where Nomads Trekked, Cyclists Will Roam
03.11.09
Fast-Train Network in the Works for Turkey
03. 8.09
Training Young 'Energy Detectives' to Save at Home
03. 7.09
Istanbul's Green-Design Innovators
03. 6.09
Accolades for an Aegean City
03. 4.09
Twilight of the Turkish Repairman
03. 1.09
Ballad for a Beleaguered Land
02.28.09
February Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
02.27.09
New Calls for Eco-Election in Turkey
02.25.09
Last Rites for a Lake
02.20.09
Whither Turkey's Wetlands?
02.18.09
On Strike Over Battered Fisheries in Bahrain
02.15.09
Eco Films to Screen in Greece: Submit By March 1
02.14.09
Green Is the Word In Turkish Newspapers
02.13.09
To Wait or to Walk, That Is the Question
02.11.09
Promoting a New Way of 'Life' in Turkey
02. 8.09
What Slums Can Teach Us About Sustainability
02. 7.09
Turkey Finally Gets on Board With Kyoto
02. 6.09
Kinder, Gentler Demolition: A Bright Idea from Japan
02. 4.09
Drought: The New Serpent in the Garden of Eden
02. 1.09
Spinning Garbage into Gold: An Alternative to Mining?
01.31.09
January Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
01.30.09
Uzbek Capital Cracks Down on Clotheslines
01.28.09
What Women Know About Water
01.25.09
Putting Something Away for a Rainy Day: New Seed and Gene Banks in Turkey
01.24.09
Knitting a City Together
01.23.09
How Green Is Our Recession?
01.21.09
Pricey Energy May Make Insulation More Enticing
01.18.09
The Roots of Change: Turkey's Only Organic Trade Show
01.17.09
Turkey Needs Wind, Solar for Energy Security, Expert Says
01.16.09
Old Car Batteries' Deadly Toll in Africa
01.14.09
Big Apple is Big Winner for Its Transit Improvements
12.26.08
Green Jobs Advocate to Head Labor Department
12.24.08
Planting New Trees: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
12.21.08
Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution in Ankara
12.20.08
Turkish Government Says 'Evet' (Yes) to Nuclear Bid
12.17.08
OECD Head: Turkish Environment Can Benefit from Financial Crisis
12.14.08
Life Abroad, A Different Shade of Green
12.12.08
Traffic Lights that Work Even When the Power Doesn't
12.10.08
Istanbul's Public Transit Plans: 12 Million People, Almost as Many Ideas for Moving Them Around
12. 7.08
In Cooking Pots Today, Car Tanks Tomorrow: Vegetable-Oil Collection Initiated in Turkish Town
12. 6.08
Pollution to Put an End to Endless Summer Days?
12. 5.08
Vegetarian Options Increasing in Kebabistan
11.28.08
The U.S. and Turkey: Akin on Kyoto?
11.26.08
Where Cyclists Dare: Riding the Streets of Istanbul
11.22.08
It's Not Easy Being Afghanistan's First Wind Farm
11.21.08
Tourism Giveth and Taketh Away
11.19.08
Is This What Life With the World's Highest Gas Prices Looks Like?
11.16.08
Good Growing Regions Drying Up in Turkey
11.15.08
Art Au Naturel
11.12.08
Pollution to Rise Along With Energy Prices?
11. 9.08
Organic Aspirations: A Tale of Two Turkish Villages
11. 8.08
Women's Hands Make Nice Work for Turkish Craft Site
11. 7.08
Urban Parks Help Defeat Inequality
11. 2.08
Ecofriendly Prefab Homes Debut in Turkey
11. 1.08
A Green Retreat on a Greek Island
10.29.08
Conflict's Unexpected Link to Conservation
10.25.08
Istanbul Getting Old Computers Off the Streets
10.24.08
Turkish Authorities Say: Let Sleeping Bats Lie
10.22.08
Filmmakers Wanted to Showcase Water Problems at Istanbul Forum
10.19.08
Denim Deadly for Some Turkish Workers
10.18.08
A Green Bazaar for Istanbul
10.17.08
A Photographic Celebration of Turkey's Trees
10.15.08
Garbage Collector a Rare Bird in Turkey
10.12.08
Carbon-Neutral Delivery for Ice Cream Emergencies
09. 2.05
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