Another sustainable dance club?

A few months back, I wrote an entry on what I believed was the world’s first sustainable dance club launched by the Sustainable Dance Club company in Amsterdam. Club Watt, which opened in September 2008, features technology that allows dancers' moves to churned into energy that can feed the club. In addition to this piezo-electric effect," the club boasts specific reduction goals to increase its sustainability:
- 30% reduction of energy consumption
- 50% reduction of water consumption
- 50% reduction of waste produced

Recently, I discovered London's Club Surya, which also claims to be the world's first sustainable dance club. The club opened a few months before Watt and outlines slightly different sustainability guidelines. Rather than specifying percentages, the club lists policies such as: allowing customers who travel by foot or bike free admission, using environmentally friendly poly-carbon cups, and donating part of the profits to environmental or animal welfare group.

Both clubs are trying to elicit other venues to conform with their definition of sustainability. I can't decide which set of guidelines is superior, but if the debate sparks more interest in the concept and the birth of new sustainable dance clubs, I will encourage its continuation!

Photo: Club Watt claims to be the world's first sustainable dance club.