Kategorija: 2025

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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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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Ecotopia Winter Meeting is happening!

hello everyone, missed us? —- some people have started to form an orga for ecotopia 2025. wanna be part of it? send a message through our contact form —- next year we’ll go to northern france! and possibly some surrounding regions/countries. —- there will be a winter meeting in vienna on the second weekend of january. please come if you want to do orga work! please only come if you know you have some capacities for orga work! —- Thursday 09. and morning of Friday 10. will be some time for arriving, hanging out, catching up —- 10.-12. will be…

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Antiracism Reading Circle: Let’s learn together!

The Ecotopia Bike Tour touches by it’s nature on many aspects of life where people with racial privilege will have a different experience than those without, for example crossing borders, hitchhiking to the bike tour, dumpster diving, camping in places where people may not expect us… We also find that during the bike tour, we often lack understanding of each other’s struggles. While Ecotopia has the values of antiracism and “trying to be open for all” we also find aspects of our own biases back in how we organize. It should also be noted that the bike tour remains mostly…

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