I am reading my "newest favourite" book just now, the sort of book I can't wait to open at breakfast, and which keeps me at my coffee longer than usual. It's Heather Kinkade-Levario's
"Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment and Alternate Water Reuse".

Sounds a bit, erm, DRY you say?

Anything but! Heather has a stimulating perspective and knowledge on the world of water conservation and on-site reuse which in today's shifting climate and increasing concerns about water access, management and use is very much needed. Not only is her book immediately applicable to designers in Mediterranean and more arid zones, but even here in Dublin Ireland. Water is a resource which is non-negotiable, and Heather's book offers plenty of ideas, technical advice and inspiration to sustainability system designers everywhere.

Sustainability and understanding how to apply it to all processes in your organisation is key these days. It is a completely new approach to your activities that will open a wide range of opportunities to explore.

As we know how complex this new field is, we have developed a set of trainings that could help you and your team to learn everything about this new and so much needed way of thinking.

These are the 6 different sustainability trainings we are offering in 2008.

The First Step on the Road to Sustainability
Basic concepts and tools for increasing the sustainability of your company focusing on premises and processes.

Eco-scaping your company
Landscape assessment of your building and grounds to identify possibilities for:

• detoxify grounds maintenance
• enhance areas for employee relaxation
• increase biodiversity
• add educational value

from your rooftop to your car park…

Introduction to Living Technologies

The forefront of our transition to sustainability is in sustainable
technologies. The leading edge of this is Living Technologies.

Introduction to Resource cycles in the company

Introduction to Cradle to Cradle thinking, using a product Life-cycle Analysis system.

Sustainability and Innovation: Drawing forth the creative genius within the company

Stimulating, design-driven and energetic workshop to assist your group
in becoming more effective at finding win-win-win solutions. It’s all
about bringing the inherent knowledge within the group to the surface
and let creativity rule.

Carbon Footprint and Life-cycle Analysis

Introduction to carbon footprint and its effects and product
life-cycle. These are tools which provide a useful way to measure the
impacts of our daily activities.

All our sustainability trainings are offered to companies on demand.
Individuals please contact us with your preferences and we will
organise the schedule based on the demand.

Erik, our visionary sustainability consultant, will be speaking at Rethinking the City 2008 on April the 4th.

This year's conference title is De-carbonising Our Urban Environment, and it will outline some of the priorities for change in order to build more sustainable cities.

Erik's will talk about how integrated strategies based on Living Technologies can help to develop more sustainable communities.

The conference is organised by, and held at Cultivate Centre, the Irish centre for sustainable living and learning. Hope to see you there.

Yes, this is probably the first green roof in Ireland, and quite a big one given the lack of elbow room down in the corridor.

This is also the very first post in our blog and the right place to introduce TEPUI to all of you, eco-minded people.

We are a small start up devoted to sustainability consultancy, project management and training for all kind of organisations (big, small, public and private).

Our name, TEPUI, is actually another kind of green roof... well, it is actually a table-like mountain with a full ecosystem on its top.

And why so many green roofs in a single post? Is TEPUI a distributor? No, we are not (I already said what we are), but these Sky Gardens are one of the Living Technologies that we want to promote in Ireland and Europe.

If we achive our goal, Newgrange will become the first of many more green roofs, and this will become the first of many more blog posts.