Horizons

Musgraves is greenest: The Cork-based wholesale company, Musgraves, is the winner of this year's environmental reporting awards, coordinated by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

The judges deemed Musgraves the best of the 18 entrants. Other companies which received a commendation of excellence for the quality of their environmental reporting were Coillte Teoranta, Novatis, Intel Ireland and Thermo King.

The Musgrave Group will represent Ireland at the European Sustainability Reporting Awards in early 2005. For entry details for the Irish environmental reporting awards in 2005, contact Luke Brockie of ACCA Ireland on tel: 01-4988903 or e-mail luke.brockie@accaglobal.com

Nostalgia time again

People are often nostalgic at this time of year so Eneclann, a Trinity College, Dublin, campus company, has chosen an apt time to release two new heritage CDs. Drawn from material in Irish archives, the two CDs were launched in Dublin on Thursday. The first, The Irish Ancestor 1969-1986, is an archive of the journal of the same name which drew together information on Irish genealogy, biography and domestic history. Cost 74.90.

The second CD is entitled Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858-1870 38.90). The CDs can be purchased online from www.eneclann.ie or you can phone 01-6710338 for details of stockists.

Forest solstice bash

Forest Friends Ireland/Cáirde na Coille is holding its annual multicultural solstice celebrations next Saturday at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Glencree, Co Wicklow. Highlights of the programme of events include tree planting, tree hugging, a fire ceremony at 4 p.m. followed by a multicultural celebration of biodiversity and cultural diversity with music, song, dance, poetry and storytelling. Tel: 01-8325415.

Cob house fundraiser

A Christmas gathering of ecologically minded people goes ahead in the Airfield Trust, Dundrum, Dublin on Saturday next from 7 p.m. The party is also a fundraiser for the owners of Ireland's first cob house which was destroyed by fire in October. Admission €10. Tel: 01-6746396.