Jennifer Hattam
A former editor at Sierra magazine in her hometown of San Francisco, Jennifer relocated in 2008 to Istanbul, where she works as a freelance writer and editor.
Besides contributing environmental stories from Turkey and around the region to TreeHugger, Jennifer writes about the arts, culture, lifestyle, travel, and urban issues for other publications while exploring the city’s many corners, snapping pictures, practicing her Turkish, and blogging about expat life. Find her on Twitter as @TheTurkishLife and @jenhattam.
Jennifer can be reached at jenniferhattam@treehugger.com.
Latest Stories from Jennifer Hattam - Page 11
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Traditional Landscapes With a Twist: Photographer Yao Lu Makes Mountains out of China's Rubble Heaps
In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where
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Parisian Woman 'Fixes' Potholes With Yarn
It may not be a real solution to Paris' potholes, but Juliana Santacruz Herrera has certainly come up with an attention-grabbing way to draw attention to the problem: Filling cracks and holes in
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Small Fish May Be More At Risk Than Big Ones
One of the best things about winter in Istanbul is cheap, heaping plates of freshly caught hamsi (sardines), lightly battered and fried. Served with just a
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EU To Pay Fishermen to Catch Plastic Trash
With heaps of plastic choking the world's oceans and fishermen chaffing at new regulations meant to protect dwindling European fish stocks, a top EU official has proposed a clever idea
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Slow Food's 1,000 Sustainable Gardens for Africa
One thousand gardens are blooming across Africa, where the international group Slow Food is helping schools, villages, and other communities grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs using sustainable water management, pest repellent, and fertilizing techniques.
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan's 'Crazy Project' for Istanbul: Building a Second Strait
The Turkish prime minister has proposed to dig a second north-south waterway through the city, carving Istanbul up into two peninsulas and one island.
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Rainwater Collection Project for Thirsty Yemen Wins Philips Livable Cities Award
Yemen's mountainous capital city of Sana'a is rapidly running out of water. What's the solution? According to the recent winner of an global prize for urban innovation, Yemenis need to look to their rural past to protect their future of their cities.
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Top US Export to China: Bad Freeway Planning?
Drivers who were caught last year in a nine-day-plus traffic jam along the Beijing-Tibet Highway may be cheering China's ongoing efforts to rapidly and massively expand its freeway
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Motor Boat Turbulence Poses Big Threat to Key Anchor of Aquatic Food Chains
Minuscule and often transparent, zooplankton are little noticed as they float through bodies of water, but their absence can have a big impact on aquatic ecological systems, in which they serve as a
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Istanbul: A City Growing in 'Overdrive'
The Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of bazaars and bustling nightlife, lies within just a few of the city's 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is full of factories, freeways, grey concrete buildings, and -- most of all -- traffic.
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Source of Sanitation Crisis Becomes Sustainable Power Solution in Africa's Largest Slum
In the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, often called "Africa's biggest slum," the lack of toilets and sewer systems leaves hundreds of thousands of people
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Chinese Workers Struggle to Catch 'The Last Train Home' in World's Largest Human Migration
Every year, 130 million people throng China's railway stations, frantically trying to obtain a seat on a train that will take them home for
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Argentinean Artist Gives New Life To Old Money
Money does grow on Máximo González's trees: The Argentinean artist collages their trunks, branches, roots, leaves, and fruits using bank notes that have been taken out of circulation. The delicate works
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Sin City Hotel Sponsors Sustainable Artist
Making art out of recycled materials is nothing new, but Las Vegas-based artist Steven Spann is putting a new twist on the idea by using in his work whatever is collected for him by employees and customers of
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Saving Ethiopia's 'Church Forests': Embattled Islands of Biodiversity in a Denuded Landscape
Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians, who believe in creating a living symbol of the garden of Eden around their places of worship, have nurtured some 35,000 'church forests' -- many of them islands of green growth in an almost entirely deforested landscape.
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Massive Natural Bridge Discovered in Afghanistan
Under most circumstances, it would be tough for a natural stone arch more than 200 feet wide and 60 feet high to remain hidden, but the recent discovery of one fitting that description in the remote
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Recycled Studios for Artists Pop Up in US Northeast
For the better part of the past three months, a small storefront in Peekskill, New York, has been home to a tiny, colorful plywood shed, measuring just 6 feet by 9
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Mongolia Rescinds Snow Leopard Hunting Proposal
When there are as few as 3,500 members left of an endangered, and declining, animal species, especially one that lives in harsh conditions full of threats, killing just a few can do real
