Urban Conservancy, Eurotrash style ...
This is just sort of really, awesomely cool. In the Eurotrash-meets-urban-conservationist sort of way.
Nightclubs hear the sustainability music
Tomorrow is Live Earth, the day of rock concerts organized by Al Gore. It's designed to get young people interested in global warming. In the Netherlands, some young artists and entrepreneurs have already gotten the message. Rico Gagliano takes us to Rotterdam, the country's nightclub capital.
Rico Gagliano: One Friday afternoon, at a Rotterdam nightclub called Worm, I meet Mike van Gaasbeek. He's, well, I'll let him tell you.
Mike van Gaasbeek: I'm "chef de ping-ping" from Worm.
Rico: You're "chef de ping-ping?"
Mike: "Ping-ping" is money. If you drop money it sounds like "ping-ping-ping." Coins.
In other words, he's Worm's CFO. Mike, and the artist collective who run Worm, did not drop a lot of coins on building the club, though. And here's why:
van Gaasbeek: This was all built, 80 to 90 percent, with recycled materials.
While a Dutch indie rock band sound checks, Mike shows me around. The club's toilets are made of old oil barrels. The door handles are re-used bike handlebars. Even the ventilation pipes were salvaged from a demolished office building.
Nightclubs hear the sustainability music
Tomorrow is Live Earth, the day of rock concerts organized by Al Gore. It's designed to get young people interested in global warming. In the Netherlands, some young artists and entrepreneurs have already gotten the message. Rico Gagliano takes us to Rotterdam, the country's nightclub capital.
Rico Gagliano: One Friday afternoon, at a Rotterdam nightclub called Worm, I meet Mike van Gaasbeek. He's, well, I'll let him tell you.
Mike van Gaasbeek: I'm "chef de ping-ping" from Worm.
Rico: You're "chef de ping-ping?"
Mike: "Ping-ping" is money. If you drop money it sounds like "ping-ping-ping." Coins.
In other words, he's Worm's CFO. Mike, and the artist collective who run Worm, did not drop a lot of coins on building the club, though. And here's why:
van Gaasbeek: This was all built, 80 to 90 percent, with recycled materials.
While a Dutch indie rock band sound checks, Mike shows me around. The club's toilets are made of old oil barrels. The door handles are re-used bike handlebars. Even the ventilation pipes were salvaged from a demolished office building.