Roll up! Roll up! It´s the great Ecotopia Biketour 2010 extravaganza!

Twenty years ago the first Ecotopia Biketour was organised to reach the Ecotopia gathering in a environmentaly acceptable way and to raise attention to environmental topics. After the first Ecotopia Biketour in 1990 every year another temporary eco caravan appeared in a different part of Europe for around two month. During the history of Biketour nearly every country in Europe was visited and Biketour became known in a wide activist scene in most countries in Europe. This contributes into creating, year after year, a heterogeneous group of people that meet, cycle and organize activities together. The Biketour is a form of ongoing popular education and also an action itself, as a visible and public example of sustainable transport and living.

This year the Biketour will take place between June 26th and August 31st. On our way we will visit and support local groups working on ecological and social issues, participate in different action camps and community projects, give and take part in workshops, cook together, while we build up friendships and networks between activists from different countries. In 2010 the Biketour will participate in several climate camps and the Carfree City conference, will support No-Border activists in Calais, take part in local critical mass initatives and will link up with the Transition Town network in the UK. For it´s 20th anniversary the Ecotopia Biketour is moving trough the UK, France, Belgium and Germany.

Ecotopia Biketour is a project, based on consesus-decision-making which is open for everyone who wants to help out with the preparation or join us during the tour. Find out more about us at www.ecotopiabiketour.net

Moritz Binzer