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| Ballona Creek Watershed News and Information Eco-Home Network Tour of Green Dream Home, July 18, 1-4 P.M. July 14, 2009 |
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| Check out this special open house and tour on Saturday afternoon, which features a green home in Culver City's Lindberg Park neighborhood. It's designed by Westside architect and environmentalist Isabelle Duvivier, a long-time friend and colleague active in rivers, wetlands, watershed action, bicycling and architecture. Jim Lamm, President Pickford House - Green Dream Home |
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| Culver City News Tour the Greenest House in Town July 13-July 19, 2009 |
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This Saturday July 18, from 1 to 4 p.m., there will be a special tour of the greenest home in Culver City's Lindberg Park neighborhood. The house, 10830 Pickford Way, was designed by architect and environmentalist Isabelle Duvivier, and is certified as LEED Platinum, the highest environmental rating in the United States. Owned and built by Todd and Karyn Eichenberger, this house is the ultimate in green architecture, and featuring solar power and gray water systems that will be key elements in future building. Admission is free to Eco-home members and $5 for non-members. Duvivier notes "This is a house that can make a difference in our world. It is an example of how we need to be building to reduce our carbon footprint. I am excited to share this awesome house with you." The Eichenberger’s are pleased to be able to share their environmental commitment with the community, and hope that everyone who comes to see this house will be inspired to live with the planet in mind. |
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UCLA Extension Arc_ID Blog Pickford Home by Isabelle Duvivier June 6, 2009 |
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Take a tour of the Pickford home, designed by Isabelle Duvivier (LEED AP) and owned by Todd and Karyn Eichenberger. The tour takes place Saturday, July 18, 2009, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 10830 Pickford Way, Culver City 90230. Tour is free for Eco-Home members, $5 for non-members. From the Duvivier Architects website: |
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| The Pickford House, named for the street on which it is situated, is the home of Todd and Karyn Eichenberger and the venue of our next Eco-Building Forum. This event, and the home it is showcasing, has special meaning for us old-time Eco-Home Networkers because owner/builder Todd Eichenberger has a long history with us. Todd was on the E-HN team that created the first green home building products display as a special section of a Home Show at the LA Convention Center on Earth Day in 1990! He has been a key volunteer, helping to run our Homes for the Future Tours from 1997 until 2005. Todd was then, and still is, a builder dissatisfied with standard building practices and codes and eager to build greener, more sustainable homes. |
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| Renovation
Nation - Greening America One Home at a Time |
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| Emmy Award winning host of This Old House, Steve Thomas, interviews Isabelle Duvivier and clients James Lin and Leslie Linville on the job site of a green building in Venice, CA. Steve Thomas focuses on green building components such as the solar panel installation, the recycled wood railing installation and many more green building features. |
| Random Lengths Port’s Promenade Plan Still Falls Short, Many Say by Paul Rosenberg |
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| Those priorities were at the heart of an alternativeplan, the “Sustainable Waterfront Plan” presented by architect/planner Isabelle Duvivier. While outwardly similar to the Port’s “Alternative 4”, which keeps all cruise ships downtown, the Sustainable Plan has an integrated internal community-based logic to it. “Sustainability” is defined as “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” “This plan is not anti-cruise industry,” Duvivier stressed. “This plan keeps all the cruise industry infrastructure compact and centered around the already beautifully developed promenade and fountain. In this way we don’t duplicate cruise industry infrastructure and support facilities.” Illustrations of pedestrian bridges that could link downtown and adjacent neighborhoods to the waterfront conveyed an accute sense of visionary possibility. “We would like to see a plan that incorporates bicycle friendly streets, parking orchards to reduce the heat island effect, and a reduction in auto dependence by making pedestrian connections between the waterfront and POC more friendly and easy to navigate on foot,” Duvivier explained. |
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| Random Lengths Community’s Waterfront Plan Gets Public Hearing by Paul Rosenberg |
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| Despite an extremely negative public reaction to earlier presentations of the Port’s plan, Port staff refused to include an option based on the earlier community alternative. So community activists created their updated option themselves, with added input from outside experts, most notably architect Isabelle Duvivier, who has done two major Harbor Area studies for the California Coastal Conservancy. Duvivier was also on hand as one of the presenters describing different particular aspects of the community alternative. Duvivier praised Port staff for responding to some of the community concerns—most notably those increasing connectivity to the California Coastal Trail. |
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| Random Lengths Community Coalition Offers “Sustainability” Alternative for Waterfront by Paul Rosenberg |
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| Speculation is that Knatz is now trying to incorporate some of the ideas from the sustainability plan. Informal discussions were brewing for the current plan when Venice-based architect Isabelle Duvivier gave things a kick in the pants. Duvivier, who has done two extensive studies related to the California Coastal Trail in the Harbor Area, was an alternate in the negotiations between the Port and the TraPac Lease appellants. “David Freeman seemed to express genuine interest in what the stakeholders had to say, but there wasn’t a forum to discuss our concerns,” Duvivier recalled. So she suggested setting up a meeting specifically devoted to waterfront concerns. The meeting with Freeman took place in July, and was followed by a meeting with Knatz, in which she appeared far more receptive to community ideas than she had in the past. Duvivier is optimistic that past distrust can be overcome, but community members are more guarded in their outlook. No one expects that the new DEIR will contain a full-blown version of the sustainability plan—which actually exceeds the scope of the project as POLA currently defines it. |
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Green House July 13, 2007 |
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| Host Bob Tarlau of Fox 11 News - KTTV Los Angeles interviews architect Isabelle Duvivier and clients Jane Yoo and Jason Chuan about their green home in Alta Dena. |
| Smart Homeowner Magazine A Healthy Remodel by Judith Stock |
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| When Jane Yoo and Jason Chuan decided it was time to buy a home, they began their search in communities near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles. With a clear idea about location and price range, they found a house in the community of Altadena, one other homebuyers had completely missed in the tight Los Angeles housing market. |
| Smart Homeowner Magazine Spotlighting an Eco-Architect by Judith Stock |
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Duvivier Architects, the green architectural firm founded by Isabelle Duvivier, is one of a growing number of firms across the country dedicated to sustainable building. Projects on which Duvivier has worked incorporate such strategies as passive solar design, water retention and recycling, and the use of non-toxic and recycled building materials. In addition, she is the author of the Santa Monica Green Map, which highlights green businesses and ecological features that contribute to the creation of a more sustainable community. |
| Los Angeles Times Magazine Green From The Ground Up by David Lansing |
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Isabelle Duvivier, a Venice-based architect, designed a number of Santa Monica-area green homes and also conceived and designed the Santa Monica and Ballona Watershed Green Map, which features businesses and organizations in the area that provide products or services consistent with Santa Monica's Sustainable City Plan. She has major doubts about the green building movement's longetivity. |
| Los Angeles Times Magazine Green From The Ground Up by Emily Young |
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When it comes to designing an earth-friendly house, most people want to do the right thing. But the minute the process requires more time, more labor or more money, the impulse to do good quickly wanes. That's where Global Green USA's Green Building Resource Center comes in. (...) Venice sustainable architect Isabelle Duvivier appreciates the unbiased approach. "They're able to stay current on the newest and latest," says Duvivier. "And because it's not a store per se, there's no incentive to sell you something." |
| Outside Magazine The Best Towns in the U.S. August 2005 |
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| Santa Monica Audubon Imprint Homes for the Future |
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The
editor of Audubon Imprint reports on his visit to three local houses
on the 2001 Eco-Home Tour, including a project in Culver City designed
by Duvivier Architects. Unveiling the environmental tactics employed
by each of the homes, Mr. Bragg conveys the fact that you can do
a lot for the environment and for your pocketbook if you build,
remodel or retrofit Green. |
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Area Watershed Green Map is Unveiled |
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The Santa Monica and Ballona Watershed Green Map was unveiled at a launch party on October 14. The two-sided map was developed by Duvivier Architects in conjunction with the City of Santa Monica to make residents and visitors aware of the resources that make it a sustainable community. It focuses on “ecological and cultural resources found throughout the Ballona Watershed, such as important waterways, wildlife migration routes, wetlands, public lands, alternative transportation corridors, environmental organizations and green businesses.” |
| Los Angeles Independent News EcoHome Tour on Show |
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Projects highlight environmental features such as habitat preservation and restoration and incorporate ecological design strategies such as passive solar energy efficiencies, water retention/recycling and use of non-toxic/recycled building materials. Our firm emphasizes the interdependent relationship between the natural and built environments. Our goal is to build shelters and communities for our growing society, while minimizing the impact of the construction on the land and local resources. |
| Los Angeles Times Hoping to Add Lots of Green to Orange
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During the course of their research,
Duvivier and the students located a new green corridor connecting
three large chunks of open space between Santa Monica and Venice. |
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Planning O' the Green |
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Almost a decade after the first Green
Map was conceived for New York City, Isabelle Duvivier brings Los
Angeles into the global Green Map community. The article traces
the history, funding and mission of green maps, citing the development
of the Santa Monica and Ballona Watershed Green Map. Duvivier's
collaboration with local teens, environmental groups, GIS specialists
and the City of Santa Monica helped involve community members in
the map project. |
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