Jennifer Hattam

Writer / Istanbul, Turkey

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.

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  Reaching Past Borders to Protect the Mediterranean

  Countries around the Mediterranean have been abuzz in recent weeks over currently thwarted plans to sail a flotilla of ships to run Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip -- an

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  Wildlife Key to South Sudan's Future as New Nation

  Ravaged by two civil wars over five decades, the world's newest nation has still managed to retain rich wildlands and massive

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  Big Builders to Lead Turkish Environmental Ministries

  Are the foxes watching the hen house in Turkey? That seems to be the feeling among many environmentalists and urban planners, who greeted with skepticism the announcement Wednesday of the new Turkish government cabinet following elections in mid-June.

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  Birds Get Helping Hand In Tough Siberian Winter

  Winters are tough, to say the least, in Eastern Siberia, where temperatures can regularly plunge below minus-40 degrees

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  Ultramarathoners Running 10,000-Kilometer Silk Road Route to Raise Awareness About Water Shortages

  Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the

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  Nesting Turtles Close JFK Runway in 'Zen' Moment

  The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland and severe winter storms in Europe both snarled air

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  Failed Paris Olympic Bid Site Now a Booming Success as Eco-Friendly Urban Park

  Arriving from the urban jungle of Istanbul, the many neighborhood parks of Paris are literally a breath of fresh air, with their stately trees, colorful blossoms,

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  A Pack Full of Tools for Urban Farmers On the Go

  Since the last time I was in San Francisco, little community gardens seem to have multiplied dramatically, popping up in narrow spaces between buildings and formerly garbage-strewn lots. That pattern is being

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  A Tale of Two New Cities for Cairo and Istanbul

  Rapid urban expansion has turned the historic cities of Cairo and Istanbul into overcrowded, polluted, traffic-clogged mega-metropolises. To this problem, similar and unlikely sounding solutions have been proposed: Build two new Cairos and Istanbuls.

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  How Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives

  I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

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  Extreme Road Rage in Moscow Sparks Backlash

  Plenty of the world's cities are known for their congested roads and insane traffic jams -- Beijing, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Istanbul all come readily to mind. But in Moscow, elites are taking their desire to avoid traffic to deadly extremes.

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  Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

  A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until

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  Kenya Supersizes Wildlife Corridors to Provide Safe Passage for Elephants

  Compared to planting "bee roads" or building tunnels for toads, the task conservation groups took on in Kenya was a gargantuan one: Creating Africa's first dedicated elephant underpass, part

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  Wind-Powered Mosque Planned for German Town

  The tall spire that is often the most distinctive architectural feature of a mosque, a minaret is important as the place from which the Islamic call to prayer is issued five times a day. In one small Muslim

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  Huge New Urban Campground Planned for Brooklyn

  An old airport used by Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes is set to become the largest urban campground in the United States -- in the middle of Brooklyn, New York. Parks

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  Fed Up With Living In A Concrete Jungle, Beirut Residents Make Their Own Green Space

  Even coming from an overbuilt, traffic-clogged city of 15 million-plus people like Istanbul, Beirut was a bit of a shock.

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  British University Experiments With Online 'Shaming' of Non-Recyclers: Does It Work? Is It a Good Idea?

  If all your friends and peers could see what you were chucking into the trash, would you recycle more? Early reports from a dormitory experiment at England's Newcastle University

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  National Geographic Picks 14 Future Edmund Hillarys, Jacques Cousteaus, and Dian Fosseys

  They work in Cambodia, South Central Los Angeles, and East Africa, online and in the ocean. They chase after rare birds and insects, develop solar irrigation