A native of Boulder, Colorado, Michael Holdrege (MS, MA, MBA) is a graduate of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.   He completed the foundation year in Anthroposophical studies at Emerson College in Sussex, England, and subsequently earned his diploma in Waldorf education at the Seminar for Waldorf Pedagogy in Stuttgart, Germany.   A resident of Vienna, Austria for 14 years, he taught biology at the Rudolf Steiner School  before co-founding the Institute for Goethean Studies, where he was s a full-time faculty member for seven years.  Since returning to the U.S. he helped found the high school of the Chicago Waldorf School, where he currently teaches biology and economics.  Michael is also on the faculty of the Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program in Wilton, NH and a board member of the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in East Troy, Wisconsin.