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Ecotopia 2010 in Germany!
27. November 2009 · 19:33 · Age: 103 Tage
1.-21.08.2010
Ecotopia was an international gathering of young people from all over Europe involved or interested in environmental and social justice issues. Ecotopia took place every summer since 1989, each year in a different country. It was organised by EYFA (European Youth For Action) and by a local grassroots environmental organisation as host organisation. After 20 years of organising Ecotopia, EYFA has decided it's time to try something a bit different.
 A group of former Ecotopia (local and/or (inter)national) organisers and Ecotopia participants from the last 20 years, as well as people who got interested through the stories (and rumours) about former Ecotopias in the Flaeming Region (about 80 km south-west from Berlin) decided in Januar 2008 to take up the tradition, change it a bit and start to planning ECOTOPIA? for 2010 in their region. Ecotopia? is almost the same as Ecotopia only that it does not aim directly on youth, but on all generations. On 7 July 2009 the towncouncil of Wiesenburg decided that Ecotopia? 2010 can take place on an area near to their railway station (with direct connections to Berlin and Dessau).
Ecotopia? will also be place for learning, exchanging experiences and spreading information about environmental, social, political and other issues. A giant free floor and space for workshops, trainings, speeches, video's, theatre, music, meditations, and whatever connected in the widest sense to the theme of Ecology... (for example climate change, transport and mobility, GMOs, organic food, eco-building and sustainable infrastructure, global politics and global economic system, strategies for actions, experiences of campaigns, alternative media, migration, racism and xenophobia, cultural issues, and a few more…)
Ecotopia? will of course also be a functional model of self-sustainable community that puts into practice the principles of an environmentally friendly life-style: waste recycling, vegetarian kitchen, consensus decision-making, the use of alternative energy...(as the word ECO(logical)(u)TOPIA already includes) , the "?" (questionmark is symbolic for the fact that nobody has THE answer, also ( y ) our try will be for sure not be the final "solution")
What Ecotopia? really will be we will see in August 2010 and remember nobody has "the" answer...
(and yes, the name Ecotopia? was "stolen" from the book Ecotopia from Ernest Callenbach, published in the 1970'ties.)
P.s. Because of negative environmental effects of air travel (air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, damage of the ozone layer, etc.), one of the best ways to come to Ecotopia(?) has always been the biketour.
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