Bon Voyage Ecotopia Biketour

Sorry, this entry is only available in English and Italiano. 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 Biketour is now on the road and we are looking forward to all our adventures together! The shiny new biketour booklet 2012 is ready, print off a copy and bring it with you. We also have a day-by-day calendar and a page on which projects/campaigns we are visiting so you can see where we are and where…

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Monday 9th July: Critical Mass in defence of Collserola and against Eurovegas

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Français and Italiano. 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. What? First day of biketour! When? Monday 9th July 10h. Leaving from Can Masdeu 12h Meeting Vallvidrera, Pl. Mont d’Orsà (for brief information about the fight to defend Collserola and the struggle against Eurovegas). 14h. Communal meal at Kan Pasqual (bring something to share with others).

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Celebrate the start of the biketour, 8th July at Can Masdeu 10.30h-19.00h

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Français and Italiano. 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. Come and meet Ecotopia Biketour, find out about Degrowth and help us celebrate the start of our 2,000km journey by bike from Barcelona to Venice, which leaves the next day! Ecotopia Biketour is an eco-mobile do-it-yourself activist community which cycles through Europe each summer. This year our journey takes us through Catalonia, the South of France…

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One month to go…

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Français and Italiano. 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. The biketour is just around the corner, starting one month from now! Phew how time has flown away, but loads of things have happened during our preparations… We have made many many contacts, via internet, friends and travel, our route has almost finished taking shape (although there will still be major changes!) and the word is…

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Join us this summer – register now!

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Français and Italiano. 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. (for versions of this text in other languages click here) Ecotopia Biketour 2012: Towards Degrowth (6th July – 19th September) – Join us! We are very pleased to announce that registration for the biketour 2012 is open! The Ecotopia Biketour is an eco-mobile do-it-yourself activist community which cycles through Europe each summer. This year our journey…

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One month on…

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano and Français. 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. Hello ecotopia biketour friends, João and Alice, our international coordinators, have been in Barcelona for one month already, they have had many incredible adventures and felt like blogging about what they’ve been up to: We have spent the first few weeks mainly trying to get contacts (an endless task) and looking for concrete places and projects to…

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Get ready for BT 2012 – ‘towards degrowth’

You will be happy to hear that preparations for the 22nd Ecotopia Biketour are now in motion and we would like to invite you to get involved. From July to September, Ecotopia Biketour will cycle from Catalonia to Italy, connecting projects, sharing skills, confronting destructive development and living as an eco-mobile action community. Our theme this year is degrowth and we plan to visit permaculture farms, D.I.Y bike workshops, protest camps, ecovillages, intentional communities, ecological/cycling NGO’s, bicycle events, protests, grassroots projects, and other creative alternatives to the damaging growth mentality of capitalism. As usual, each day we try to live as a self managed community on wheels,…

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