Get your green groove on at the Sustainable Dance Club

So you think you're all cool with your biodiesel, your compost pile and your donations to the Sierra Club? Well leave it to the Dutch to take environmentalism to the next level -- the next level in fun, that is. The Sustainable Dance Club in Rotterdam is planning on becoming the first green dance club in the world, converting dancers' moves into electricity, powering the turntables and speakers scattered throughout the facility. As if that weren't enough crunchy granola hippie-thinking for you, there are also plans to have "rainwater toilets, biological beer, and walls which change colour according to the heat generated inside the club, without using any electricity." Now don't get us wrong, we're as big on recycling as the next guy/gal, but when we hear of a foreign concept like biobeer, well, lets just say that we're gonna make damn sure that the septic system and the keg tubing aren't cohabitating the same plumbing.

[Thanks, Jocko]

[Bill @ Nov 21st 2006 11:48PM]

hey.... it gives people incentive to keep dancing, otherwise bye-bye music/lights

[Brendor @ Nov 22nd 2006 12:29AM]

All beer is biobeer - Isn't the fermenting process biological?

[Alexander @ Nov 22nd 2006 12:37AM]

According to what is _suppsoed_ to be in beer... There is nothing 'chemical' about it.

Yeast, barley (any grain will work, really), hops and water.

So... I'm interested in seeing what they mean by 'biological beer' when... pretty much everything in it is biological.

(as a side note, it is extremely easy to make all kinds of beer. It takes very little startup money, and if you have more than one brewer then you can stagger your brews so that you are never without any beer. Startup costs? Pfft. Lets just say that if you drink one beer a day, you'll have paid for 3 kits, which as previously stated you can have in rotation to have a constant supply of beer, within one year.

Still not enough reason? Okay, how about getting to flavor your beer to whatever you like?

How about setting the ALC to whatever you want? (get plastered off of 4 beers instead of 24.)

Still not good enough? Okay, you pushed me to the breaking point. Sell your beer to your buddies. Make up your costs even faster, and plus--you get them to pay for your supplies and your drinking FREE BEER.

I don't even drink beer, and I enjoy brewing it in my basement for all my friends and relatives. In all my years of brewing, I only had one mishap which was when I forgot to clean the filling tube--and then it was fairly obvious what beer was undrinkable by the black gook that filled the bottles. Otherwise, I'd say that 3-4 hundred gallons of beer has left my house.

[Rex @ Nov 22nd 2006 2:15AM]

haha that's awesome, but now they'll need to find a good DJ that will guarantee that the dances will be dancing.

[jnasato @ Nov 22nd 2006 3:47AM]

Wasn't this idea from some energy conservation contest winner? ...But it was for sidewalks.

STOLEN!

[Richard @ Nov 22nd 2006 6:51AM]

IMPLEMENTED!!

[pchi @ Nov 22nd 2006 9:48AM]

according to the article they haven't decided how the floor will work. so i think it's more reasonable to say...

HYPOTHETICAL!!

[l3utterfish @ Nov 22nd 2006 7:43AM]

If you wanna watch the Inaguration PARty of the Sustainable Disco click here

l3utterfish

[l3utterfish @ Nov 22nd 2006 7:48AM]

http://l3utterfish.blogspot.com/2006/10/inauguracion-discoteca-sostenible.html

[bluebottle @ Nov 22nd 2006 8:20AM]

biological beer is organic.. most continental european countries refer to organic standard stuff as 'biological' - biologique for the french, for instance. ie, beer with no crap and chemical rubbish in.

[JohnnyD @ Nov 22nd 2006 4:06PM]

Actually, the now-defunct "Wetlands Preserve" nightclub in New York City was the first "green" club. For more than 10 years Wetlands provided cutting edge green practices ranging from recycling and use of green cleaning supplies to presenting enviromental and social activism presentations between the world-renowned musical acts. In fact, all the club's profits went into supporting its own highly successful, in-house activist organization.

[peej @ Nov 22nd 2006 10:29PM]

Hope you like the feeling of dancing in mud because that's what any kind of energy generating floor will feel like. Unless it doesn't generate much energy that is. One reason why power generating shoes have never caught on.