Queer Ecotopia Biketour ?

Story behind, problems, critique 2 years ago we decided to put some keywords on the poster and the flyers to describe the biketour in a short way. We put amongst others as well “Queer” because we felt like it is a significant part of our community – that we are explicitly not only Cis*-hetero-people and that we are opposing heteronormative* society norms. We received critique from members of the queer community, who experienced homophobia on Ecotopia Biketour 2015. I am very set up when i read queer on that poster!!! I think it is a lie. On the ecotopia biketour…

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Biketour in Helsinki (last year)

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The first two of us arrived on the 15th of September in Helsinki like planned, but only at 2 in the morning. In the end the 10 of us that remained arrived in about 6 groups spread over the next 4 days. Some people had decided to stay a bit longer in Tampere, but some wanted to arrive in Helsinki on time, so the…

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Biketour in Tampere (last year)

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the 11th of September, we arrived in Tampere. Our sleeping place was the social and art centre Hirvitalo. Tampere is a city surrounded by lakes, and on one of them, really close to Hirvitalo, some people had built a floating sauna with a glass roof from which you can see across the lake. The highlight was when we saw the northern lights over…

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Biketour in Turku (last year)

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the 4th of September, we arrived in Turku. Our main base was Pyöräpaja Vapaa Ratas, a bike workshop that sells old bike parts and fixed-up bikes on a regular bike flea market (from the money, the rent is paid) and where people can also come to fix their bikes or have them fixed. It is in Aurinkotehdas, an old bicycle factory that is…

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Biketour at Livonsaari (last year)

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. From the 31st of August to the 2nd of September, the Biketour stayed at Livonsaari, a small village about 40 km west of Turku. In Livonsaari, many people try to live together in a more ecological and communal way. There are many different initiatives by different individuals in the village, such as a baker baking organic bread from locally produced wheat, someone building sustainable…

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Biketour on Åland (last year)

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After Stockholm, at the end of August 2015, we cycled north towards Kapellskär to ferry-hop towards Turku across the Åland archipelago. The Åland archipelago is a collections of literally hundreds of thousands of islands in the Baltic Sea between the Swedish and Finnish mainland, and it is known for its exceptionally beautiful landscape. Åland belongs to Finland, but its official language is Swedish. Only…

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Veganism on the Biketour

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the Biketour, all common meals and all things bought by communal money are vegan. This means that they should not contain neither any animals (meat, fish, chicken, gelatine, shrimps, lobsters, carmine, leather, etc.) nor any products produced by animals (milk, eggs, honey, bee’s wax, wool). On the last tour, in Broddetorp in the end of July 2015, we did a workshop about this topic.…

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Links #6: Tall Bike Tour, Self-driving Bikes, Critical Mass arrests in Minsk, SapfoFest, Overtaking Buses

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en Anglès Americà. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Tall Bike Tour Introducing the self-driving bicycle (April Fools!) Minsk: Two participants of Critical Mass cycling event may face up to 6 years in jail SapfoFest is the first independent community-initiated festival in the Baltics and is happening for the 5th time this summer. We are excited to join with the Biketour! (Facebook event, the website is not updated yet) Teaching bus drivers what it…

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