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Welcome to the Ecotopedia - the wiki of the ecotopia biketour
Roll up! Roll up! It’s the great Ecotopia Biketour 2008 extravaganza!
Where? Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey (Belgrade to Sinop on the Black Sea coast).
When? 21st June - 14th August 2008
What? The Ecotopia Biketour is a mobile community that appears for several weeks each year in a different part of Europe and provides an environmentally acceptable way to reach the Ecotopia gathering (http://eyfa.org/ecotopia, http://www.ecotopiagathering.org/) or simply to cycle in interesting places. Along the way we meet local groups working on ecological or social issues and support their activities.
Why? Learning new things, keeping fit, seeing new places, promoting cycling, meeting new people, supporting local environmental groups...
Who? If you’re interested in environmental issues, willing to take an active part in the group, and you have a bicycle, then Ecotopia Biketour might be just the thing for you. Biketour is suitable for people of most cycling abilities, and accommodation is usually in tents. Participants are responsible for tasks such as preparing meals, washing up and since we don’t have a support vehicle, we also carry our own equipment in bike trailers. Participants pay a small participation fee graded according to country of residence and are expected to take part in decision-making during the tour.
For more information:
Join the biketour mailing list at: https://lists.eyfa.org/mailman/listinfo/biketour Or e-mail mail4yoy (at) gmail.com
Information
Organizing next biketour
This is a self-organized tour!
No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993! In 2007 we will cycle Spain and Portugal - here are some ideas about the route and map.
Does this appeal to you? and do you want to do your share of bt-organizing?
The best is you to come to the nextmeeting, online or in real, to get an idea of the people and tasks, or browse through the meeting minutes.
If you live next to it or know great places to visit, talk to Joao. We also compiled some texts about what bt is and how to organise biketour and collected some nice ideas about improving BT.
Right now we are also working on the website. And where the hell is our stuff?
You can also help us online, even if you do not live next to the route. We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to archive - to this wiki. Also the website needs doing: writing, designing and creating an ez-publish template.
Tasks
Please help with some of this:
- Brainstorm of ideas about improving BT
- Wiki organization
- take care of moving old texts to here
- You can learn on How_to_edit_Wiki for contributing
- update this same list, maybe at this page Org Tasks ?
- Link this orphan pages: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages
- Collaborate on the route drafting
- reading, writing and collaborating on the profiles of places to visit
- take care of moving old texts to here
- Translation
- Help translate by reading How to translate
- Website
- ez-publish knowledge welcomed
- Designers
Last years tours
2006
diary 06, booklet 06, pressrelease06 eng, outreachmail participants 06 eng, traveltips to lithuania and poland, short route description 06, flyer06 eng
Archive
camp fire recipes
texts about bt - well this is intended to be a collection of all texts about bt we have here - but who knows if everyone thinks of mentioning her text here ?
the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova: [[1]]
the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german: [[2]]