Biketour update for 2010-07-04

But on Wednesday night we arrive at the Huntington Lane Camp to help defend the site from plans to turn it into a coal mine # Drinking a beer in the hills west of Sheffield after a long day cycling uphill into the wind… We have a few 'transition' days now # We have vegan pumpkin cake today because it is Yo's birthday! #

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Biketour update for 2010-07-04

Wir haben einen neuen blog von der Ecotopia Biketour (auf Deutsch): http://bewegung.taz.de/organisationen/biketour/blog # A new blog entry (in German) by Ole: http://bewegung.taz.de/organisationen/biketour/blog # After workshops this morning we have had the chance to rest, fix our bikes up and copy maps at the Cornerstone. 70km to Sheffield tomorrow! # Laura is leading a workshop on Climate Justice for us in the garden outside Cornerstone http://yfrog.com/9hc4bgj # Tomorrow we're riding from Leeds to Sheffield and not sure of which way to cycle. Anybody know any good routes? # Just getting our organic muesli breakfast ready before a morning of workshops on…

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Biketour update for 2010-07-01

Testing out our portable rocket stove at the Brotherhood Church near Pontfract. Dinner on the way! http://yfrog.com/mtjf7sj # Back on the road today and heading past Drax coal fired power station the biggest CO2 source and polluter in the UK http://yfrog.com/j9xazuj #

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Biketour update for 2010-06-30

Halfway through our Seeds of Change workshop on consensus and facilitation, trying to get to the underlying cause of problems we have had # Still in York around the Towards Carfree Cities Conference. Today we have a full day workshop on consensus led by Seeds of Change's Rebecca #

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Biketour update for 2010-06-28

Now we are in York, getting ready to go to the Towards Carfree Cities Conference tomorrow, and thinking about going on a Carfree pubcrawl. # After 2 days of pushing bikes up hills in North Yorkshire we have decided that we should call this the first Ecotopia Walktour # On Saturday night we watched Beauty and the Bike with Darlington Cycle Campaign http://www.bikebeauty.org # Just left Botton Village where we stayed last night and came up a 33% gradient!!! http://yfrog.com/0mr2hj #

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