Author: EBT2025

Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns

Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns After our summer break, our Antiracism Reading Circle has started again! We meet every Sunday at 19:00 Central European Time (till 21:00) on Signal, and everyone who feels connected to Ecotopia – past, present, or future – is warmly invited to join. Whether you’ve been on the Biketour before, plan to come, or are just curious about the community and the work of unlearning racism, you are welcome. We’ve reflected on how we want to continue, and decided on this Every other week we continue reading Me and White Supremacy by…

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La Prochaine Aire

La prochaine aire, a word game for being the next rest stop/next era is a project that based in an abandoned canal house that was used for navigation. The town of Joigny used to be a place for the military industry and in the 90’s when that industry left, 10% of the population left leaving the town with many social issues, poverty and empty buildings. In a region mainly holds a right wing conservative population the left activists were looking for a safe space to gather in the outskirt of town and were passing by that abandoned house and realized…

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News from Ecotopia Bike Tour July 2025

The Tour have been starting for almost a month now with many kilometers and project going on. Since “les Hirondelles” project the tour went by “LA ferme du Joran” and left Switzerland to go to Dijon in “les lentillères” project. ?   Here is a poem about a day on the road and a drawing Some news will soon arrives about what comes next :)  

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Ecotopia 2025 First Stop: Hirondelles

We started the Ecotopia Biketour 2025 in Pontareuse, Boudry (Switzerland), on this beautiful farm, “The farm of Pontareuse” by the collective of Hirondelles (meaning swallows, like the birds). The farm is a squatted farm and the collective want it to provide a chance for communal farming and gardening for villagers, and offer a place for people from the nearby asylum seekers centre to come and cook food (in their cozy outside kitchen), as well as offering a place to stay in emergency situations while also being a home and garden of the people from Hirondelles collective. We were welcomed and…

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