Five Green Nightclubs Where You Can Party the Night Away
Photo courtesy Temple.com.
3. Temple, San Francisco
Paul Hemming's Zen Compound consists of the Prana Restaurant and Temple, a club with three separate areas: The Shrine, the Destiny Lounge, and the Catacombs (think hot and sweaty), and mixes house, techno, and hip hop music. The folks at Temple say clubs use 25 times more energy than the average house, so they have focused efforts on energy use reduction. Lights have been retrofitted with LEDs (snagging the club a rebate from the local electricity provider). The club also diverts 89% of waste on average from the landfill by recycling and composting, offers used kitchen grease for biofuel, uses corn cups and straws, employs Interface carpet tiles, low flow toilets, and uses no UV coating (which inhibits recycling) for club flyers. Outside, the club is experimenting with a vertical garden, plans to build a geodesic dome on the roof to grow vegetables for the restaurant, and hopes to erect a small wind turbine to supply some electricity.
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4. Butterfly Social Club, Chicago
The world may not have been quite ready for the Butterfly Social Club (BSC) when it first came on the scene, but since then, owner Mark Klemen has renovated the funky Hobbit-style interior into a more modern, sleeker style. What patrons of both BSC--which has a small dance floor--and the sister lounge Funky Buddha seem to like is the wide range of organic cocktails, beer, and wine, and the extensive list of drinks that are organic and non-alcoholic (BSC's soda guns serve up seltzer and water) beverages available. There's a bicycle that helps supply energy to the DJ station when ridden by an employee, LED lighting, speakers of recycled wood, and according to reviewers on yelp, friendly servers and bartenders.
Photo via Club Surya.
5. Surya, London, UK
Surya, launched officially on September 20, is the brainchild of an entrepreneur calling himself Dr. Earth. The club has its own wind turbine, and a solar energy system, plus a small piezoelectric dance floor. According to the club's Web site, Dr. Earth plans to eventually generate 60 percent of the electricity used for the air conditioning from the floor. Bathrooms have waterless urinals at the club and visual treats include a wall constructed of old cell phones. Fair Trade and organic wine is available. Dr. Earth has put together his own set of guidelines for his "Club4Climate" idea and plans to go global with the concept. The next venue, he says, will be in a warm, tropical location.More From TreeHugger and PlanetGreen
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