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I haven’t been blogging lately, simply because I have been busy, not so much at work (I’ve been busy there as well), but more in my private live.

Not only are we (my wife and I) building a house (in an unconventional way, more on that in a later post), which takes a lot of time for planing and decision making. We are also expecting our first child to be born this year or at the beginning of next year.

Like falling (and being) in love, expecting a child is testing your point of view on almost everything. There are three questions, which are not new to me, but which I now think about more often:

• What have you done with your life? Where (and doing what) have you spent your time?
• Haven’t you seen what was happening to our planet?
• What have you done to make the world a better place?

My wife an I try to live in a sustainable way. We don’t have a car but rather take the train, we live in a low energy building (and the house we are building right now will be a low energy building as well), we buy food produced within 30 km of our home when possible (bananas tend to be difficult, though) and we by organic food, mostly Bioland and Demeter. Since my wife is Chinese and her family is in China, we try to fly to China once every year (but currently only manage to get there every second year), but we are trying to offset the CO2 we are producing on these flights. The amount of CO2 we are producing lies well below the average german citizen.

But what we do are mostly passive decisions on what we consume and how we travel. Currently we are not actively engaged in making a change. Which brings me back to the questions:

• Haven’t you seen what was happening to our planet? Yes I have, and I have tried our best to live in a sustainable way.
• What have you done with your life? Where (and doing what) have you spent your time? I want to be able to answer something like: I have tried to make the world a better place.
• What have you done to make the world a better place? I’d like to say that I have actually actively engaged in making a change.

But is what I’m doing now, where I’m spending most of my time, satisfying this? I guess I will have go on changing my life.