Ecotopia Biketour is a self-organized environmental and social activist bicycle tour that has been cycling through different parts of Europe each summer since 1990. On our way we visit social and environmental projects and groups, to learn about their struggles and visions, to exchange knowledge, to create connections and to support them by participating in actions or doing some physical work. Read more about what the Ecotopia Biketour is.
Ecotopia Biketour 2017 will go through Germany, France and may be to Switzerland and eastern Spain. A more specific route will be announced on the website as soon as it is decided. If you have some recommendations for projects, groups and events for us to visit on the way or would like to help preparing the tour, write to 2017@ecotopiabiketour.net. Read more about Ecotopia Biketour 2017.
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Along the Danube for some PIZZ’A’…!!!
After a long HOT cycle we finally made it along part of the the Danube to Vienna! Tonight we will be hosted by the PIZZA Muhlfeldgasse 12 from 6pm, for their regular sunday skipped pizza and info eveing, where much of the ingredients come from food that would have otherwise been wasted. We hope to share some of our stories and learn from their collective over dinner! Hope to see some of you there.
Garten der Generationen… one two three!
A few images from an evening at Garten der Gernerationen, an emerging community project experimenting with anti-capitalist ideals, self-organisation and self-sufficiency. After an introduction from one of the founders, who also founded a successful community not far from here, we eagerly offered help with their straw bale house construction … . . . . …and we enjoyed a walk through their emerging community garden before dinner.
Military zone by dusk to MoA! Farm
Some how I did not take any photographs of this magical place… but there are many by others and they are BEAUTIFUL! The journey to Mottinger Amt (a.k.a.) MoA in Waldviertel was a mixture of picturesque rolling hills and cycle paths past corn fields, idyllic looking villages and the sun setting on the Czech mountains behind us. It then became much cooler and eerier during dusk as we entered the 10km long military zone, only passable after 4pm each evening when target practice was over. There was reason to feel the comfort in not crossing this barren strip alone, at…
When things go wrong they often turn out as the best stories
After our partly difficult days in Prague, a big city in which we didn’t have a very secure sleeping place and thus some left the group to stay privately with friends, in hostels our outside in the forest, we were looking ahead to some cycling days until our next project in Austria. We were advised to follow the Greenways route until it first reaches the border and then find our way to MoA! where people were eagerly awaiting us. We were a group of about 45 people, as always the scouts going ahead to mark the route for everyone else.…