Categorie: 2024

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, 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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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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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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Ecotopia 2025 has slowly started rolling forward…. This year we will be heading to Northern France and surrounding areas! The planning of the route is currently ongoing. Ecotopia is a self-organised biketour riding across different parts of Europe every year creating community and connection on the road, learning together, organizing on consensus basis without hierarchies. We promote DIY culture, ecological lifestyle, queerfeminism, antiracism and intersectional values. The tour lasts 3 months and usually consists of 15-30 cyclists at a time. We visit different activist and social projects, hold workshops and skillshares on the way, fight injustice and support each other…

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26.08 Riga, Fukusima Struggling with finding my way to Fukusima, but getting a reply quickly when I ask for help. Being welcomed by the only person I know there. Eating my lunch together with the food which is immediately offered to me, some couscous and pickled vegetables and mushrooms, while the question “Is it better to have diarrhea or to vomit while biking?” is discussed. People apologize for the imagery, and I say that I don’t mind and sharing related stories of my own. Eating pancakes with banana and peanut butter and chocolate paste. Repairing the roof of an overwater…

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Our ecotopian experience started at Kombinatas Fest, in a north-east lithuanian campsite, the 15th of August. Getting there from Barcelona was a challenging experience on itself, taking into account our willigness to avoid planes. But we achieved it!! And realised that there is still much to be done in improving train connections, prices and bike users friendlyness. In that last aspect, there was one key ingredient that helped us a lot: bike sharing among the ecotopian group. Since the group was changing, there were two kind and cool people leaving two bikes that were incredible matching our sizes and expectations.…

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