Billy Tetrud
Building Meridia
A car-free solarpunk microcity with polyculture in the streets and technology held to a pro-human standard.
What Billy carried
It is planned as a federated town where people can experiment with governance systems. His north star was plain: "we want to bring beauty and community and functionality back to our lives." He told how he met his co-founder through a friend he met talking philosophy on Austin's lakeside boardwalk, and how building a town turned out to be her dream too. And he drew the solarpunk line clearly: not a cyberpunk dystopia where technology is everywhere but nobody's happy, but technology used when it is good for humanity, pro-social and pro-human.
- permaculture design (soil hydration)
- polyculture farming in public space
- car-free microcity planning
- federated governance experiments
- pro-human use of technology
In their own words
“We want to bring polyculture farming into sort of the public spaces like the streets and, you know, have both beautiful and productive greenery all over the place.”
“But we want to bring beauty and community and functionality back to our lives.”
“in a solarpunk sort of way where it's not a cyberpunk dystopia where technology is everywhere but nobody's happy. It's, you know, you're using technology when it's good for humanity, it's good for pro-social, pro-human ...”
What Billy is up to in the world
For you, Billy
Thank you for what you brought to the Love Dimension. This page is our gift back to you: the words you gave us, the films cut from your time on stage, and the frames caught while weaving through it all.
Your full-resolution media package
Being delivered. The masters are too large to live on a web page, so they travel to you directly. Write to us and we will make sure yours arrives.
Use any of it, anywhere. If you share a film or a frame, tag @tyzen.drake.
And if deeper support would serve what you are building, a site that carries your frequency, a film of your work, or Sōul Missiōn Catalyzatiōn, our door is open.
With love, Tyzen
