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Four years ago from now and not in the future, I left my job on government and politics to strat my own company: Club De La Pelea a Mixed Martial Arts and Combats Sports Gym, Entertainment, clothing, health and all that becomes to the industry and improving lifestyles from the particular and fun sight.

Know after three years working it`s time to move and grow, so I found this great idea from Club Watt the very first Sustainable Dance Club in Rotterdam. Made from a fusion of electronics, embedded software and smart durable materials, the dance floor will convert the dance crowd's movements into electricity, using the generated power to change the appearance of the floor’s surface. The energy-generating dance floor can also generate feedback to other systems that use electricity, such as sound systems. The technology was developed by collaboration between Enviu, Delft University of Technology, Ecofys (a sustainable energy solutions company) and Rotterdam-based Studio Roosegaarde. (http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/rachel-king/geek-style/dancing-new...)

I can so easily imagine all the fighters from boxing, kick boxing, MMA, jumping rope above the sustainable fight floor; Fighters also have fun, and ofcourse to grow our base of female partners enjoying training and fitness and becoming more healthy thanks to a flashing floor.

The idea of producing energy from ciclying is not new, but now can be a small growing business as done at the greenmicrogym in Portland (shown by BBC); or the California Gym at Hong Kong. A ciclist can develop energy enogh to:

• Power a typical desktop computer for approximately 26 hours.
• Heat a traditional electric oven to 350 degrees for approximately One hour and 57 minutes.
• • You could run a toaster oven for almost 12 hours using the same amount of energy, use your toaster oven for small meals!
• Power a standard refrigerator for about 50 hours.
• Power a central AC system (2.5 tons) for about 66 minutes. Yikes, just 66 minutes! That’s why it's so important to keep your AC at a comfortable, yet moderate temperature.
• Power an electric clothes dryer for just 72 minutes.

But those are small scale projects, also I can imagine a gym area powered by humans in Mexico City; but let´s dream and think for planning something like the "Human Powered River" a futuristic proposal from architect Mitchel Joachim (www.archinode.com/gym.html) for New York City. Create energy as a social contirbution to environment and the Civic life of the City, I think we can try that for every small, medium and large City, a wh*** metropolis doing execise and doing it´s contribution for social health, enforce social capital and community consciousness, shifting energy.