Bure – struggle against the mega-nuclear-waste-dump

Then we enter in the area close to bure, infested with police surveillence and pretty abandoned otherwise. There is almost no cars on the roads, many houses in the few villages are empty or completly falling apart. The perfect place for the gigantic nuclear waste burial project CIGEO (an acronym for Centre Industriel de Stockage Géologique, or Industrial Centre for Geological Disposal). ANDRA (National agency for the management of radioactive waste ) didn’t choose this area because the ground is paticulary suitable to contain the radiating material but rather because it was possible to convince a big part of the…

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lentilleres to bure

At approximately at 1:30 in the night the bus spits me out at Dijon Gare. I get my stuff together and spot the abandoned bikes around. There is one that looks quite promising and definitely has been there for a long time with a flat tire and dirt piling up under the wheels. Then I make my way through the sleeping town towards Lentillieres Quartier Libre, the place where Ecotopia has arrived the day before. I see loads of bikes with travel gear parked and some tents pitched in a big house under construction, I am certainly at the good…

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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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Slow Start with the SunRide System!

Grab your bikes and your instruments! This year the route will start with not just one but two biketours! Ecotopia will join forces with SunRide System, a band of musicians and street artists. With their sound systems on cargobikes they’re touring and bringing along music everywhere they go. They do concerts in various different localities and communities, as well as paid gigs to fund their journey. We’ll take it slow and have time to do music on the streets of villages and towns or on the beautiful landscapes on our way. We hope for a joyful time full of singing,…

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Registrations are open!

The registration form for the 2025 bike tour is now open! Register to help us estimate the number of participants, let us know of any needs beforehand, and be added to the signal group chat. You’re also invited to participate in bike sharing and traveling together to the tour. We made some changes to the dates and route, you can find the most up to date route on our route page. We will visit some exciting projects this year and are looking forward to sharing them with you soon!

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Announcing the 2025 route!

We’re excited to announce the 2025 route! This year, we will start in Switzerland, spend most of the time in France, and end in Belgium. As always, you can join the tour for any part but we recommend joining for at least one or two weeks. We are in contact with some exciting projects! They’re marked on the map below to give an indication where we will be, but we will wait with announcing them until we have confirmed that all the dates work with the projects. the route and dates [updated July 5]: Pontareuse near Boudry, Switzerland July 1…

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Appel à projets dans le nord de la france

Nous sommes un collectif auto-géré et itinérant et nous sommes à la recherche d’un lieu pour nous accueillir quelques jours lors de notre prochain voyage en vélo. Co voyage commencera dans le Nord de la France (peut-être bien en Bretagne) et se déroulera de fin juin à fin septembre 2025. Cette année, notre voyage s’organise autour de la lutte anti-raciste et décoloniale, c’est pourquoi nous serions particulièrement intéressé·es de rencontrer des personnes concernées ou engagées dans ces luttes. Lorsque nous collaborons avec un lieu/des personnes/un collectif, nous faisons généralement un petit don financier (principalement des dons des participant·es). Cela dépend…

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