Livity LA Green Drinks

Hipsters, burned-out entertainment execs, and aerospace techies mingled amid cool organic hats, organic green tea, organic vodka, organic liqueur, organic wine, and the organic biodiesel-/solar-powered Green Truck, to the sounds of an organic band (sorry, my pop culture knowledge fails me here;  the band provided a very nice ambiance of Simon & Garfunkel and other congenial tunes), in the lofty, rugged Livity space on Lincoln at Cedar.  Met a young solar power engineer, full of zest for his burgeoning field, caveats for standalone capability and rebates aside, the wave of the future. Got the low-down on the efficiency of colored PVs, the lame permitting process of the LADWP that takes 6 months to turn on a residential system (compared to the much more stream-lined inspection protocol of PG&E and SoCal Edison), the range in payback time depending on installation peculiarities of a residence (as short as 5-7 years!!!), the beauty of contributing to the grid and not needing self-storage, the domestic makers of PVs.  That's the second person working for a solar system company I've met who is so ebullient about his expanding business and fervent vision, yay!  Met two different sets of environmental-consciousness educators, one bringing water purifiers to Haiti, the other teaching teens to be green.  Met a personal organic chef who only deigns to take serious customers.  Met a young physics grad who is working for the Science Channel on a fun how-to show (how to make less work for yourself with simple tools).  Also met a minister for a Jewish-buddhist interfaith church down on Ocean Park Blvd.  Caught up with organizers Dan, Lia, Elizabeth, and tried on hats with Alex and Gilbert.