Announcement: the route for 2026

Introducing the rough route plan and rough dates (=changes possible!) for Ecotopia Biketour 2026. Some notes: Regular cycling is planned to be around 35–55km per day, with an overall average of 37km/day, and a rest day every fourth day. Mind it’s not as easy there as it may look by the sole distance (dominant winds, elevations, surface, weather); besides, there’s usually plenty opportunities to ride more:) During the Childish Weeks we bike around 20km per day and have rest days more often. The start and end date, and region for the Childish Weeks are set and won’t be changed. Unlike…

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Childish Weeks: 1–14 August in Southern Sweden

So far around 15 parents have gotten in contact with us and expressed interest in joining the Childish Weeks with their 1–3 children each. This is much more interest that we have expected! We are excited to see how this experiment will turn out! When we first announced the Childish Weeks, we did not realize some of the differences in the needs of people with very young children and with older children. In particular, older children are restricted by school holidays, and their dates vary greatly across Europe. We found out that the most overlap is in the first half…

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Announcement: Biketour 2026 Region plan and Call for projects

We are excited to announce the region of Ecotopia Biketour 2026 …………………… Sápmi and Scandinavia It has been repeatedly wished for in the last years to have the biketour in that part of Europe, so here it is. The rough plan includes swedish- and norwegian-occupied Sápmi as well as so-called Sweden, Norway and Denmark, perhaps Northern Germany too! This year, besides biketouring in Scandinavia, we’d like to visit and connect with Sámi projects and villages. Sápmi, the land of indigenous Sámi people has been colonized by Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia and its predecessors and since been under their dominion. The…

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Announcing the Ecotopia Childish Weeks

For many years we were wondering what is the reason that people with children are very rarely joining Ecotopia Biketour, while on other biketours this seems to be different. Now some of us have become parents ourselves, and it starts to seem that the biggest reason why there are no children on the Biketour is that there are no children on the Biketour. Biketouring with children requires additional effort, preparation, skills and confidence, and in addition to managing the daily life on the tour itself, it is particularly challenging to get the right equipment to carry both children and luggage…

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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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Holding Ourselves Accountable

For the last two years, 2023 and 2024, something regretful happened that we would like to share, take responsibility for, publicly apologize for, and discuss how we want to work towards building an EBT (Ecotopia Biketour) community where these kinds of situations won’t happen again. The 2024 crisis started when the EBT had planned to visit a project, and only a few days in advance (because our own fault) realized the project would require all participants to register with their legal name and join their association. As some people on tour pointed out at the time, this would make this…

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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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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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