Musician, Writer, Thinker, Husband, Father, et al, striving for satisfaction and sustainability in the arts, sciences, business and relationships. Visit MarkSMeritt.com to learn about all the services I provide, find original content, explore my interactive biography, and connect with me via email, live chat, social networks and more. Interests: Animism,Anthropology,Apple/Macintosh Computers,Appreciative Inquiry (AI),Attachment Parenting (AP),Biology,Biomimicry,Bioregionalism,Business,Chaos Theory,Child Development,Civilization,Co-opetition,Coevolution,Community Building,Community Supported Agriculture (CSA),Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS),Complexity Science,Cooperation Theory,Cultural Creatives,Daniel Quinn,Ecological Design,Ecological Economics,Ecology,Economics,Education,Emergence,Emergent Properties,Emotional Intelligence (EI),Evolution,Evolutionary Psychology (EP),Film,Flow,Fractals,Gaia Theory,Game Theory,Gardening,Hierarchy,Holons,Human Ecology,Hunter-Gatherers,Imago Relationship Therapy,Indigenous Cultures,Industrial Ecology,Interdisciplinarity,Internal Family Systems (IFS),Jungian Psychology,Learning Organizations,Memes,Memetics,Movies,Multiple Intelligences,Music,Musical Theatre,Mythology,Network Science,Non-Linear Dynamic Systems,Non-Violent Communication (NVC),Organizational Learning,Pantheism,Paradigm Shifts,Permaculture,Playwriting,Population Ecology,Positive Psychology,Science,Screenwriting,Self-Organization,Self-Similarity,Socially Responsible Business (SRB),Socially Responsible Investment (SRI),Sociology,Songwriting,Sustainability,Systems Dynamics (SD),Systems Thinking (ST),Taoism,Televison,Theatre,Tipping Point,Tribalism,Unconditional Parenting (UP),Unschooling,Video,Voluntary Simplicity