The venue will sell organic spirits served in polycarbon cups and will be powered with renewable energy.
There are also plans to install a recycled water system to flush its lavatories and an energy-generating dancefloor, which would harness power from the pounding of clubbers' feet and convert it into electricity.
Although entry to the club costs £10, those customers who can prove they travelled there by foot, bicycle or public transport will be allowed in free.
Before they are let in they will be asked to sign a pledge promising to work towards curbing climate change.
The club, due to open on 10 July, is based at Bar Surya in Pentonville Road, which is owned by property millionaire and Tory donor Andrew Charalambous.
Mr Charalambous, the head of a new climate change organisation called Club4Climate, said he hoped to use clubbing to inspire young people to tackle global warming.
"This is a new way to draw in the young generation," he said.
"It's a sexy and fresh approach as opposed to the way young people feel they are preached to by other more 'grown-up' charities.
"Our aim in opening the country's first ecological club is to get as many people as possible involved in saving their world.
"There is no greater platform than clubbing to reach out to young people. Having an energy-generating dancefloor is a very exciting and interesting-idea that we have been talking to people in Rotterdam about. Such a dancefloor could generate about 60 per cent of the building's energy."
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Going green does not have to be boring.. I love this.
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That is pretty awesome...Add some jumpstyle dancers and you will have no problem making energy.
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that looks pretty cool. just need some drum an bass and the ravers will be powering the train station next door in no time.
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- subsequent
- 1 year ago
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HA, awesome!
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Groovy!
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- shroomfairy
- 1 year ago
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Can we go ahead and install these floors in malls across America?
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- grandmarquee
- 1 year ago
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I bet a hardcore punk club could generate more power than a coal plant.
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- Dmitri_Molotov
- 1 year ago
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That's a fantastic idea and not because it's Eco friendly, but because it's creative and ingenious.
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These are the kinds of ideas we need to fix all of our energy problems!!!! PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING!!!
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That is one of the coolest idea I've seen!
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not to be the skeptic in this group, but would all the dancers have to jump up and down at the same time? But regardless, one of the coolest ideas I've seen in a while. It's all about producing electricity locally.
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- googolplexer
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I bet he got the idea from DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION! Kudos!
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Great!
Now you can go to the club, dance, get drunk, try to score and save the planet while doing so!
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Man that's awesome. Wish stuff like that would grow here in the States, or anything even similar.
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- cerealforeal
- 1 year ago
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i'm hoping to try this same concept out on my bed , and power my state .
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Great idea. Simple. No energy goes to waste.
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awesomely awesome awesomeness. we need creative ideas from the private sector to meet our energy needs. there are probably hundreds of thousands of private individuals thinking up ways to harness alternative energy that major companies will never think up. the 21st century should be the age of the eccentric at-home inventor and the creative, radical entrepreneur.
way to go eco-nightclub!
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- thedismembermentplan
- 1 year ago
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I wonder if they would play my Al Gore music video there.
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- stephenthomson
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UK Jungle in the house!
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- Wessagusset_Oracle
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Gabba will no doubt be fueling the fire!
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- Mr_Costello
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How hard is this stuff to keep clean?
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- arturogarza
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Is this ambitious piezo-technology all it's cracked up to be? I searched it and came up with a bunch of pessimistic blogs out there, but I am interested to see this pan out.
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- arturogarza
- 1 year ago
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WOWW!! WHAT A CONCEPT, A WAY OF DANCING TO MAKE ELECTRICITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. AND I THOUGHT I SAW EVERYTHING, THIS IS SOMETHING.
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really cool
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im moving to london in september...and i'll be living down the street from kings cross...
...please lord, have this club be open by the time i get there!!!!
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- MissAmanda
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