Blog – Sivu 18 – Ecotopia Biketour

Pierwsze koty za płoty

ola 4 heinäkuun, 2016 April 28, 2017

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Polski. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Ecotopia zaczęła się w tym roku w Warszawie 14-go czerwca. Gościna Radykalnych Ogródków Działkowych, feministyczny Marsz Godności, spotkanie na Syrenie, budowanie nowej przyczepki rowerowej i ciągnąca się lista spraw do ogarnięcia sprawiła, że zostałyśmy niemal dwa dni dłużej niż planowałyśmy, wyjeżdzając 19-go czerwca. W Warszawie byłyśmy pod wrażeniem osiągnięć ROD. W ciągu zaledwie półtora roku udało im się przekształcić opuszczone ogródki działkowe w miejsce gościnne i mające…

campfires, sandpits, cow pastures and swamps

Ecotopia Biketour 2016 3 heinäkuun, 2016 July 3, 2016

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Finally the group somehow has improved its routine. Cycling, cooking and camping is working. We where so occupied with the visa for belarus that we hardly could organize our daily tasks… But we found nice sleeping places every night and we cycled through very beautiful landscapes. Especially the area around the Bug was nice. In the tiny villages, every house has a bench in front, where the…

This year’s theme

ola 2 heinäkuun, 2016 April 28, 2017

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. It seems like trying to live in a sustainable way in a mobile community we constantly find ourselves reusing other people’s trash. We can’t grow our own but we try to keep our carbon footprint as low as possible, finding alternatives to buying new. Obviously, Western European trash is very different from the trash we see in the east of the continent. Last year in Scandinavia we…

The Rocketstove

Ecotopia Biketour 2016 26 kesäkuun, 2016 April 28, 2017

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. “Kraft Automotive” (Force Carmotivs) – is written on the barrel out of which the 2016’s Rocketstove is made. It was built in the Radical Allotment Gardens in Warsaw in the first days of the biketour. Built out of Trash that the R.O.D – people had collected. We could use all of their stuff, they had that barrel and some leftover ovenpipes. They hat even some of that…

On the way to Bia

Candid 22 kesäkuun, 2016 June 22, 2016

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. We have left Warsaw with 1½ days delay, on the 19th of June. We are about 7 people and everything is quite chaotic. Our application for a Belarus visa was not successful on the first attempt, so one of us stayed back in Warsaw to go to the embassy again. Every day they invented a new reason why our application is not complete, and everyday we had…

Warsaw kick off

ola 18 kesäkuun, 2016 September 8, 2016

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English ja Deutsch. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Ecotopia 2016 has been inaugurated with a hell lot of pizza from a beautiful clay oven courtesy of ROD Warsaw, radical allotments collective. There are 9 of us at the moment. Getting a group visa for Belarus involves a lot of boureaucracy and it has been taking most of our time. There’s a lot to do here so…

Pre-Biketour: Berlin–Poznań–Warszawa

Candid 17 kesäkuun, 2016 June 17, 2016

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The 5th of June was the official start of the pre-Biketour in Berlin. Only 3 of us met (we expected much more) and joined the Fahrradsternfahrt, the biggest bicycle demonstration in the world, along with 140 000 other people. On 19 routes of around 1000 km in total, starting in different places around Berlin and all joining on the way to go to Brandenburger Tor in the centre, people…

Biketour in Helsinki (last year)

Candid 17 kesäkuun, 2016 June 17, 2016

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The first two of us arrived on the 15th of September in Helsinki like planned, but only at 2 in the morning. In the end the 10 of us that remained arrived in about 6 groups spread over the next 4 days. Some people had decided to stay a bit longer in Tampere, but some wanted to arrive in Helsinki on time, so the group split in…