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===Serra da Estrela===
===Serra da Estrela===
** [http://www.aindahapastores.net/ Documentary] about the remaining shepherds
* [http://www.aindahapastores.net/ Documentary] about the remaining shepherds
** [http://www.asestrela.org Cultural association]
* [http://www.asestrela.org Cultural association]
===Lousã===
===Lousã===
*Interesting villages and communities
*Interesting villages and communities
** Possible place to be hosted: [[Pedrógão Pequeno]]
** Possible place to be hosted: [[Pedrógão Pequeno]]
===Coimbra===
===Coimbra===
**Academic town, with active student groups
*Academic town, with active student groups
** Nearby there's Mira. There's a plan to install a major fishing company industry on the protected beach
* Nearby there's Mira. There's a plan to install a major fishing company industry on the protected beach
===Santarém===
===Santarém===
**Mayor is pushing the use of bikes, and he himself uses it
*Mayor is pushing the use of bikes, and he himself uses it
===Lisboa===
===Lisboa===
**Critical Mass event
*Critical Mass event
**Social center of Mouraria
*Social center of Mouraria
===Almada===
===Almada===
**Good but bold Transportation policies are being implemented
*Good but polemic Transportation policies are being implemented
===Sudoeste Alentejano===
===Sudoeste Alentejano===
**Natural Parks being threatned by building plans for luxury resorts and golf. PIN question
*Natural Parks being threatned by building plans for luxury resorts and golf. PIN question
*cork
** [http://www.publico.clix.pt/shownews.asp?id=1292716&idCanal=63 portuguese news article]
** WWF's [http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/project/projects/index.cfm?uProjectID=9E0722 Mediterranean Cork Oak Forest Programme]
===[http://www.tamera.org/ Tamera]===
===[http://www.tamera.org/ Tamera]===
**Most well known portuguese community
*Most well known portuguese community
===[[Centro de Convergência]]===
===[[Centro de Convergência]]===
**Promoting dynamism and development of rural areas of Alentejo
*Promoting dynamism and development of rural areas of Alentejo
===Aljezur===
===Aljezur===
**Ecotopia
*Ecotopia
*nearby
**[http://www.craveira.com Bio wine farmer]
**[http://www.craveira.com Bio wine farmer]



Revision as of 12:11, 2 May 2007

  • Total distance: ? km
  • Official biketour Portuguese number: +351964047001
Coordinators are Joao , Marcos , Alexandre
  • Active places:

Trás-os-Montes

  • (human desertification)
    • Sabor river dam - fight against
    • Aldeia Ngo from region, that protects nature and promotes sustainable development
    • Deactivation of train lines in interior

Serra da Estrela

Lousã

Coimbra

  • Academic town, with active student groups
  • Nearby there's Mira. There's a plan to install a major fishing company industry on the protected beach

Santarém

  • Mayor is pushing the use of bikes, and he himself uses it

Lisboa

  • Critical Mass event
  • Social center of Mouraria

Almada

  • Good but polemic Transportation policies are being implemented

Sudoeste Alentejano

Tamera

  • Most well known portuguese community

Centro de Convergência

  • Promoting dynamism and development of rural areas of Alentejo

Aljezur

  • Ideas:

other possible Sleeping places

other places

After ecotopia?

  • Idea of doing a route through the south till Tarifa, main point where the African immigrants arrive (dead or alive)
    • Something that has to be talked before and during Ecotopia
  • Biggest greenway (ecovias) being built in Portugal, east to west in the south, Algarve