Organization Call-out 2012

Hola cyclists!

You will be happy to hear that preparations for the 22nd Ecotopia Biketour are now in motion and we would like to invite you to get involved.

From July to September, Ecotopia Biketour will cycle from Catalonia to Italy, connecting projects, sharing skills, confronting destructive development and living as an eco-mobile action community. Our theme this year is degrowth and we plan to visit permaculture farms, D.I.Y bike workshops, protest camps, ecovillages, intentional communities, ecological/cycling NGO's, bicycle events, protests, grassroots projects, and other creative alternatives to the damaging growth mentality of capitalism.

As usual, each day we try to live as a self managed community on wheels, challenging consumption habits by eating as locally, fairly and ecologically as possible and sharing skills. In our journey of over 2,000km we will experience first hand local problems and solutions relating to degrowth, and strengthen the activist network.

The latest information can always be found on the wiki: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Biketour_2012

How can you get involved?

We need help finding places to visit and contacts along the route (from Catalunia to Southern France and Northern Italy), so if you have any ideas please get in touch! There is also a google map you can add ideas to here. We are looking for local coordinators to help with the BT. We would also like to invite anyone who would like to help plan the tour to join our small organiser's mailing list, where decisions about current and future tours are made, please email us for more information and let us know how you could help.

Of course the final way to get involved is to join us this summer ;-) We'll keep you posted with route updates and let you know when registration is open.

Muchas gracias,

Alice & Joao

International coordinators of BT 2012 Barcelona

French

De juillet à septembre, le tour à vélo "ecotopia" pédalera de Catalogne à l'Italie, reliant les projets, partageant les savoirs, confrontant les développements destructeurs et vivant au sein d'une communauté éco-mobile active.

Ce sera un tour à vélo de la décroissance. Nous visiterons les fermes agro-écologiques, les ateliers coopératifs, les camps d’action, les écovillages et projets écolos-socios, les associations cyclistes, écologistes, les évènements cyclistes (sauf peut-être le tour de France ;-)), les manifestations, et autres alternatives créatives à la croissance destructrices du capitalisme.

As usual, each day we try to live as a self managed community on wheels, challenging consumption habits by eating as locally, fairly and ecologically as possible and sharing skills. In our journey of over 2,000km we will experience first hand local problems and solutions relating to degrowth, and strengthen the activist network.

The latest information can always be found on the wiki: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Biketour_2012

Joao and alice, the international coordinators for this year, are working on updating the new website, and some information is already out, some the details are still being discussed (such as the exact route and dates and places and projects to visit) but things look like it's going to be an active tour. How can you help/get involved? - We need help *finding places to visit and contacts along the route* (from Catalunia to Southern France and Northern Italy), so if you have any ideas please get in touch! There is also a google map you can add ideas to here<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=202614598037844903493.0004b87154a1e6e346552&msa=0> . - We are looking for local coordinators<http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/National_Coordinator>

to help with the BT. We would also like to invite anyone who would like to

help plan the tour to *join our small organiser's mailing list*, where decisions about current and future tours are made, please email us for more information and let us know how you could help. - we will also need help advertising the tour