Craig Holdrege

Craig Holdrege spearheaded the founding of The Nature Institute in Ghent, NY in 1998 and serves as its director. His areas of study include philosophy and biology, and he worked for many years as a high school biology teacher in Waldorf Schools in Germany and the United States. Since the 1990’s, Craig has been involved in teacher training and mentoring high school science teachers and has given many courses for adults in a phenomenological and experiential approach to nature study and biology. He has written numerous pieces on genetic manipulation of life, including Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering (University of Kentucky Press, 2008). Craig is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in sustainability education from Prescott College, Arizona. See www.natureinstitute.org.

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Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Replacing Habits of Abstract Thought