dancing against climate change

Just too late for my visit to London last month, a night club called Surya (Sanskrit for Sun God) opened recently at King's Cross. I am not one to regularly frequent clubs, but this one would have been interesting for its claim to be an ecological club, with an electricity-generating dance floor that developer Andrew Charalambous claims could supply about 60% of the club's electricity needs.

Even better news is that Charalambous plans to open Surya2 right here in Cape Town incorporating piezoelectric dance floor, wind turbines, rainwater harvesting and waterless urinals. [via Weekend Argus, 19 July 2008]

A similar club is to open in Rotterdam in September - Watt, by the Sustainable Dance Club.