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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Cerciamo coordinatori locali!

Stiamo cercando volontari per essere coordinatori locali in Italia per l’Ecotopia Biketour 2011! I coordinatori locali saranno resposabili per il percorso, o almeno una parte di esso, in una specifica regione. Stiamo ultimando l’organizazione del Biketour in questi giorni. Quest’anno il tour sarà attraverso l’Italia, qui(link) è disponibile il percorso che abbiamo pianificato. Nonostante organizzare un porgetto del genere sia molto divertente, è comunque un impegno serio. I partecipanti (stimati tra i 20 e i 40), infatti, faranno affidamento su ciò che avrete deciso e stimato in fase di organizzazione. Per maggiorni informazioni sul Biketour, come funziona e dove è…

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Call-out for local co-ordinators

We are looking for volunteers to be Local Co-ordinators of the Ecotopia Biketour 2011 in Italy! See Italian version here The Local coordinator[s] will be responsible for the route in one region or at least a part of it. Preparation of the biketour is under way now. This year the tour will go trough Italy. You can see the planned route here Although organising such a project is fun, it is a serious commitment, as all the participants [estimating 20-40 at any one time] will rely upon on the decisions and estimations made during the preparation.

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