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 14
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Istanbul Boosts Options For Ferry Travel, Its Most Beautiful and Relaxing Way to Commute
Every time I'm on a bus inching its way along Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait, on a shore road often so packed with traffic that it's faster to walk than ride, I ask myself the same thing: Why the heck doesn't the city run ferry services on this route?
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European Wildlife Photographer of the Year's Ghostly Photos of Disappearing Species
While runners-up came eye-to-eye with a baby sea turtle or captured a crystal-clear picture of a bird scooping up a fish for dinner, the winning image in the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010
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High-Tech Hidden Cameras Film Polar Bears Close Up
Trying to get up close and personal with the world's largest land carnivore can be a tricky, and dangerous, endeavor. Even some of the hardy high-tech cameras the BBC dispatched to the frigid reaches of Norway
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Drought-Hit Syria Creates Model 'Water Scarcity' Park
With its villages emptying due to drought, creating what the United Nations calls the "largest internal displacement in the Middle East in recent years," Syria needs solutions to its
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Old Christmas Trees Help Other Trees Grow Year-Round in Paris' Neighborhood Parks
Once all the gifts have been opened, all the feasting done, all the toasts made, the time will soon come to figure out what the heck to do with the Christmas tree around which so
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Russian Youth Take Out the Country's Trash
In the world's largest country, much of which is sparsely inhabited, it's easy for garbage to be out of sight, out of mind. But with Russia's people living increasingly urban, and
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Chinese Environmental Group Builds Chopstick Tree, Chops It Down in Central Shanghai
With various "bring your own chopsticks" movements making little headway against the 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden utensils used each year in China alone, a clever Chinese environmental group has
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Iran's Lake Urmia Is Drying Up Fast
About 100 years ago, my grandfather emigrated to the United States from a village near Lake Urmia, in what is now northwestern Iran. He died long before I was born, leaving me with
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Israeli Artist Makes Christmas Tree From 5,480 Recycled Plastic Bottles
Devastating forest fires in the area haven't kept Haifa, Israel, from being able to put up a massive Christmas tree in the center of town. It helps, of course, that the tree is made entirely of recycled plastic bottles -- 5,480 of them.
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Highway Approved for Moscow's Khimki Forest
Celebrity support and public outrage have failed to keep a highway from being built through one of the few forests left in the Moscow region. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who lifted
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Humans Behind Deadly Shark Attacks in Egypt
A series of recent shark attacks -- one of them fatal -- on tourists at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort have swimmers
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Street Recyclers Demand a Say in Climate Talks
Before there were municipal sanitation workers emptying dumpsters into their big blue trucks, other garbage men gathered trash in Istanbul neighborhoods, picking out
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Mining No Golden Opportunity For Turkey, Mongolia
With few legal or political avenues open to fight environmentally damaging mining, four Mongolian activists took drastic action earlier this fall: They opened fire with hunting rifles on gold-mining equipment owned by two foreign firms.
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Sri Lanka Turns Battleground Into Elephant Sanctuary
The escalation last week of hostilities between North Korea and South Korea has surely been a setback to plans to create an ecological corridor out of the Korean
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Istanbul Treats Its Famous and Beautiful Bosphorus Strait Like a Trash Can, Turkish NGO Says
From the deck of a boat bobbing on its surface, Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait seems to flow fresh and strong, breathing air and energy into the city it divides into two continents.
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The Sun Rises on a Solar-Powered Mosque in Turkey
When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable
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Turning Printed Words into Non-Literary Works of Art
With e-books fast on the rise, it's time to think about what will happen to all the non-virtual volumes already printed as more people abandon the page for the screen. The beautiful work of designer Devi Chand makes that prospect seem a little less sad.
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Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time
Putting a green roof on a landmark building -- the city hall in Toronto or Chicago, a convention center in Vancouver, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences -- has long been a highly
