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Bike2Oz video series.
Bike2Oz is ts the epic adventure of a young school teacher and a train worker in Oxford.After teaching her pupils about global warming, Lowanna decided she couldn't risk damaging the climate by flying home to Australia. With her partner Kevin, the couple travel the 12,000km to Sydney using only sustainable transport- the train, bicycle and cargo ship.Pedalling through 16 countries over 485 days, the couple joined in Car Free day in Italy,escaped arrest in Iran,got groped in Pakistan and fell ill in India.
Their journey brought them through storm ravaged forests in France, torrential downpours in the Mediterranean and severe drought in Iran.
The effects of Climate Change could be seen everywhere they went.
Watch the series and find out if their relationship (and the planet) survived the epic trip?

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Stop press:A 20minute version of the film won a prize in the Tokyo Video festival 2009


We are making a 30minute film from the series.If you can translate our film into Spanish,French or German (or any language)please download the entire script here. Please send us your translation to cycle@undercurrents.org and we will send you a free DVD and a credit.


The Journey
Kevin and Lowanna filmed their entire 12,000km cycle adventure across the UK, Europe, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India,Singapore and finally Australia.


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Stop Press
July 2008- The Artists Project Earth have just informed us that Bike2Oz has been selected for a grant.
This will mean we can produce a new website, DVD and booklet and post it out to educators later this year. Great news!

Bike2Oz
Each episode or podcast of Bike2Oz will be distributed for free to video-sharing sites such as YouTube, iTunes,Travelestic,Lonely Planet TV,Facebook, BlipTv, Myspace, and other popular websites. The series will also be distributed to subscribers via online TV channels such as CurrentTV and VisionOnTV

**News Flash: We have just accepted sponsorship for the first 5 episodes of Bike2Oz from the ethical travel agency NoFlights.


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Who are we?
Kevin and Lowanna both cycled and filmed their trip.Undercurrents produced the video series. We are an award winning charity distributing videos highlighting environmental action.

Undercurrents is a 100% non-profit charity & we focus fully on social & environmental justice topics.
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Useful Links

Climate Outreach and Information Network
www.coinet.org.uk

Book holidays without flying
http://www.noflights.com

Friends of the Earth
www.foe.co.uk

The Bike Show
http://thebikeshow.net

Calculate CO2 of your flight
www.carbonneutral.com

Reach for the Sky
Everything you didn't want to know about Aviation & climate change but probably should find out.

Donate £3+ & receive this useful book.

People & Planet
www.peopleandplanet.org

Climate Change BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/climate

Climate Denial
www.climatedenial.org

Low Fly Zone
http://www.lowflyzone.org

Bike For All
http://www.bikeforall.net

Rising Tide (direct action)
www.risingtide.org.uk

Quick Release
http://quickrelease.tv

The Bicycle Film Festival
http://bicyclefilmfestival.com

Reach for the Sky (Aviation & Climate change) film
Undercurrents

Reporters feel the heat over climate change
http://www.independent.co.uk

Cycle Touring blogs
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com

Travelistic Bike2Oz
http://www.travelistic.com/

Travelling with Ethics
http://www.ethicaltraveler.org

Iran discusses Bike2Oz
http://www.iranian.com

Travel Channel
http://yourtrip.travelchannel.com

Bike2Oz supporter
http://www.sleepytom.co.uk

Bike2Oz on Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.org.uk

Lonely Planet TV (Bike2Oz)
http://www.lonelyplanet.tv/

Current TV (Bike2Oz)
http://current.com

StumbleUpon (Bike2Oz)
http://www.stumbleupon.com

Review of Bike2Oz
http://www.cyclingdude.com

YouTube (Bike2Oz)
http://tw.youtube.com/

Review of Bike2Oz
http://geekbazaar.org

Review: "I hope you enjoyed this video series as much as I did"
http://odeo.com/episodes

Review of Bike2Oz
http://www.dvbs.eu.org

Korea Bike2Oz
http://movie.bikereview.co.kr

Stray Compass
http://straycompass.com

Goverments view about Climate change & Aviation
www.direct.gov.uk

Review of Bike2Oz in Turkish (I think?)
http://www.2teker.com/

Artists Project Earth
http://www.apeuk.org

i-Tunes (Bike2Oz)
http://phobos.apple.com

Review of Bike2Oz
http://joneri.blogspot.com

Cinema showings -Watch the Bike2Oz movie here
Portobello Film Festival September 14th 2008 at 2.30pm London
International Community Film Festival October 10th 4-8.30 pm @ The Avenue Cinema 15:48pm
BeyondTv international Film Festival November 22, Swansea
If you would like to translate this film, please download the entire script here

Links to other shows on VisionOnTV


Offline TV


Living in the Future


Broad Horizons

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