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 12
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Small Signs of Hope for World's Most Endangered Cat
The woodlands and pastures of southern Spain once provided fertile hunting ground for the Iberian lynx, but habitat destruction, loss of prey, and trapping
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Tool-Wielding Women in Developing Countries Help Their Communities, Environment
Fixing broken wells, installing solar panels, and repairing bicycles -- these are just some of the hands-on skills women in developing countries are learning to boost their earning power while helping their communities and improving their environment.
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Water Woes Unsolved 11 Years After People's 'Triumph' Over Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia
When poor Bolivians rose up against the privatization of their water system, taking to the streets to demand -- successfully -- that it be returned to local control, their fight
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In Turkey, Planting Trees In the Path of a Dam's Destruction
It might seem the height of futility to plant trees in a place that risks being entirely washed away in less than a few years. But to the 200 or so people who gathered Saturday in the Turkish town of Hasankeyf, the idea made perfect sense.
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Plastic Bag Monster Takes Over Slovenian Capital
Its tentacles snake through the streets of Ljubljana, paralleling the river as it runs past the city's charming Baroque buildings, growing with every careless action of local residents, whose discards have created the creature
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Quake-Prone Turkey Vows To Move Nuke Plans Ahead
The ongoing effort to contain radiation leaks from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, badly damaged in the devastating earthquake and tsunami, has countries from
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British Artist Anthony James' Eerie Tree Sculptures
They look like something out of a dystopian future where the only remnants of nature are locked up in museums and zoos: The thin, white trunks of a cluster of birch trees glow under fluorescent
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Burro Brings Sustainable Power to Ghana's Poor
In Ghana, where electricity reaches only about 16 percent of people outside major cities, residents rely heavily on batteries -- to power the flashlights, radios, and cell phones that allow
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Will Freshwater Pipeline Save Cyprus From Drought?
Key reservoirs in Cyprus are drying up. In some parts of the Greek side of the divided island, 50 percent of the trees have died due to drought, damaging soil quality and agricultural
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Will Freshwater Pipeline Save Cyprus From Drought?
Key reservoirs in Cyprus are drying up. In some parts of the Greek side of the divided island, 50 percent of the trees have died due to drought, damaging soil quality and agricultural
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Close Gender Gap To Boost Food Security, UN Says
Proponents of the "Green Revolution" in the 1960s argued that the introduction of high-yield plants, irrigation systems, and artificial fertilizers and pesticides would allow
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High-Tech Help for Some Turkish Denim Workers
With the recent death toll among Turkish denim sandblasting workers due to the lung disease silicosis nearing 50, one
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Kenyan Villagers Turn Invasive Plant into Moneymaker
The rapid growth of invasive water hyacinths has taken a serious toll on Kenya's Lake Victoria, creating inhospitable conditions for the fish local people depend on, while sheltering other
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Remembering a Turkish Environmental Pioneer
When Victor Ananias started talking about organic agriculture in the early 1990s, the idea was largely a foreign one in Turkey. Today, the organization he founded in 1992 operates popular organic farmers' markets at five Istanbul locations.
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'A Few Brave People' Fight to Protect Turkey's Black Sea Region from Destructive Dams
The fight by residents of İkizdere and other Black Sea valleys to protect their homes from dam development is the subject of a moving new Turkish documentary, 'A Few Brave People.'
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Buyer Beware: 'Local' Food In Britain Comes From As Far Away As New Zealand, Study Shows
Shoppers in England and Wales who have been carefully seeking out locally produced foods while making their market rounds came in for a shock this week when a government body
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Abu Dhabi Celebrates Plastic-Bag-Free Weekend
It may be better known for its profligate energy use than its environmental friendliness, but the United Arab Emirates is making
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Why Food Is 'The New Indie Rock' -- And Why That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
With foodies getting flack for being elitist, fad-focused, and out of touch with how and what people really eat, The Guardian's "Ask the indie professor" columnist comes along with a
