what about ecotopia 2024??

–- hi everybody! –- after we kept getting questions about when and where ecotopia will happen this year, we realised that this info isn’t very visibly online yet. –- so here you go: we are going to the baltics, starting in southern finland and possibly ending in poland. so far we have fixed positive responses from a few projects but we’re actively working on it right now and we’re optimistic that there will be more answers soon! –- this is our very rough plan so far (please do not book tickets based on this!): –- towards end of june: starting…

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challenging white ecotopia

dear ecotopians – especially dear black, brown, indigenous, asian and migrantized ecotopians, –- for a long time the ecotopia biketour has been quite the white environment and it mostly is that way still. this doesn’t mean that no BBIPoC or migrantized people have joined ecotopia in the past or have been/are part of the tour and orga, of course. but they have usually been a minority or even just a single person. some of our PoC friends feebacked that they were hesitant to join or didn’t come to the biketour because our group was so white. we would like to…

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The brand new ✨Ecotopia Orga Month✨

dear everyone! –- we have some good news! some of us will meet next month for several weeks to do orga work like contacting projects, making a more concrete route, gathering equipment, creating tour info material, discussing topics like conflict resolution, awareness, the whiteness of ecotopia biketour and much more. we will meet where last year’s tour started, in austria with some sweet friends of ecotopia. <3 –- wanna join us? anyone can come! but we ask you to tell us beforehand when and for how long you’d like to join us because the place has limited capacities. we’ll then…

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Winter Meeting Updates

Coucou! Our first Orga meeting is over and thought we could give you an update of some of the things that we have been discussing. This is a rather long post, as we have covered several big topics.  Would be amazing if you had the time to read through all of it, but if it’s too much, here’s a list of the article’s content: – Route for 2024 – QINTAW start – Orga Structure – Conflict Resolution – The Use of Alcohol and Other Substances – Changing the Name …?         Where to….? You’re probably curious where…

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Winter Meeting for Ecotopia 2024

hello everyone! ecotopia orga for 2024 has begun and we already have a time and place for the winter meeting! ✨DATE✨ the winter meeting will take place on the third weekend of december, the 15.-17.12.2023. ✨STRUCTURE✨ on friday we will arrive, structure and go through the feedback of this year’s tour. for saturday and sunday we still need to make a schedule/order of points to talk about. feel free to contribute: https://pad.rankenste.in/p/wintermeetingfor2024 ✨PLACE✨ we will meet near berlin in prieros, heidesee baruth/mark. ✨WANNA COME?✨ due to the limited capacities it’s very important that you let us know if you’re planning…

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Beograd to Timisoara – a tale of wetness & warm hearts

I joined as a newbie in Beograd, finding a cheap bicycle and then trading up before the turnoff to our stay at the public camping area on War island, crossed by a pedestrian metal bridge manned by the military. (The understanding was that traffic ceased at eight o-clock but was later found to be for visitors and not campers like us. Meanwhile, it prevented us from joining a collective that was serving vegetarian pizza. Boo.) Beautiful site with beach, picnic tables, forest, and open grass at the merging of the Danube and Sava rivers. Internal rumblings of the group were…

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Heavy Fucking Thunder

Zagreb-Novi Sad 18.07-28.07 hellouu everybody! sorry you didn’t hear from us in a while, we were busy staying alive and dry and in good spirits. also, our phones kept telling us we’re in bosnia and charging away all our data. so, from zagreb to novi sad our route was under… mixed weather. heavy fucking thunder (TM) made us search shelter almost every day. which also made us come into contact with more locals, so that was nice!(especially since so many people were so super welcoming and friendly to us, offering us places to stay, ice cold water, fruit or coffee…

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Some thoughts from BAB

This topic has been on the tip of my tongue since I took part in the Winter Meeting in December for Ecotopia 2023. I remember we were all sitting three days in a row on chairs around a big table, trying to go through as many topics as possible before the weekend was over. Somehow it felt so strange to see that during these days Ecotopia had become practically immobile: the people I had been cycling along with in the summer are now all stuck in a big room on a cold gray German winter day. Maybe it’s something personal,…

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