Vegan parenting

I found this movie on CurrentTV.
I am not really vegan (I am lacto-vegetarian), but I have to admit I was really impressed by this little movie. There's a big vegan restaurant and a vegan pastry chef. There's other families and kids .... Wooow, that's so great.
Somehow I always feel as being the only vegetarian and the only parent who raises his child vegetarian.

A life stripped bare

I am reading Leo Hickman's "A life stripped bare". He's an english journalist for the guardian and he wrote a book based on his blog and his daily column about how to live an ethical live:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/experts/leohickman/0,,,00.html

I try to live an ethical live for some years now. I started being vegetarian, which for me is the most important step to an ethical live (and I disagree totally with Leo in this point, for me you cannot have an ethical live still eating meat).

Anyway, most people don't think about their impact on the ecology (maybe it's better not to think about it). I try to give my best being as ethical as I possibly can.
But there are things which I can't do:
1. Clothing: I can't change to ethical clothing, I like to have stylish clothes, so this wouldn't be feasable.
2. Cosmetics: I'm not able to stop using my deodorant, which might have chemicals and might be really bad for nature. Specially in winter with all the clothing-layers you have to wear, I start stinking and can't afford that in my environment. I tried natural deo-sticks, they really don't work well enough!
All other cosmetics I use are totally natural (and most of them even organic).
3. Traveling: I cannot get used to the idea of not flying anymore. I haven't got a car, I use public transports and my bycicle to go to work and walk a lot. But stop flying, stop enjoying exotic countries and their cultures, that will be really hard and I don't know if I will ever try it.

Other than this I am pretty ethical. I usually don't support multinationals (I don't take medicine, don't drink sodas, buy my food at the organic market ....), save as much water as I can (I don't keep the water on when I clean my teeth!), don't leave electronics on standby and so on.

At www.myfootprint.org you can check how big your ecological footprint is that you leave in this world. My ecological footprint is 4.1, which is also the average of my country (does everybody lie??) and that would mean that 2.3 worlds would be needed if every person in this world would live the same way I do.
How big is your ecological footprint? What could I do to improve?

Yoga

It's my late birthday present - a yoga course at Sahana, six lessons altogether and yesterday was my first.
After having worked the whole year without holidays, with a tight schedule and nearly no spare time, after starting my Certificate in Management and trying to have a family live, you can imagine that yesterday's lesson alleviated my tension a lot.
It was incredible. I made a few strange positions, which made me feel my muscles and after walking out of the door I felt newly born. My back was totally relaxed and I felt as I would be flying.
I don't want to miss that anymore and I will keep you posted on my next lessons.

Revival

I am proud to announce, that this is the official revival-day of this blog.

Thanks to Björn who found my long-forgotten blog, I decided to start writing again. Lots of different stories of my life will expect you the next weeks (months, years?).

I will write about my first yoga-course, the start of my business-school (certificate in management at the open university) and my daily experiences.