Clifton Community Partnership Update April 2010
Contents: ASO Musical Director Returns to College; New Pharmacy Fills Needs and Prescriptions; Sweet Smells Sprout on Campus; Annual Tour of Homes Rich With History; Conference Center Expansion Brings in Silver; County Approves Emory Village Construction; Composting Program Expands to Hospitals; Community Challenge Grant Promotes Pedal Power; Five Questions: Chris Beck
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April 2010
Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director, Read the complete article  Emory patients now have access to a new outpatient pharmacy in The Emory Clinic, providing a new level of customer service and quicker access to prescription and over-the-counter medications."This new level of service allows us to better serve our patients, their family members and our faculty, staff and students here at Emory," said Amir Emamifar, administrative director of pharmaceutical services for Emory Hospitals, Clinics and the Winship Cancer Institute. "It's an exciting opportunity to deliver on our promise of outstanding customer service and patient- and family-centered care, while also extending a service so many of our thousands of employees need at any point throughout the year."
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This summer, expect to see the early fruit of Emory's labor when
 several dozen new fruit trees and berry bushes take root around campus. "The Clairmont Campus site is well-traveled, plus residents live on that campus in the summer and can enjoy the fruit during that growing season," says Jimmy Powell, director of exterior services and sustainability for facilities management. "Plantings near the sustainable gardens were selected because they support the overall educational component of the gardens."
This year, come celebrate this landmark event and discover why the U.S. Department of the Interior said Druid Hills is "significant as the finest example of late 19th and early 20th century comprehensive planning and development in the Atlanta area, and one of the finest period suburbs in the Southeast." Read the complete article
Emory has a well-established green building program, currently having one of the largest inventories by square footage of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified green buildings among campuses in America. Recently, a new LEED certified building was added to the University's portfolio of LEED rated buildings. The Emory Conference Center Hotel (ECCH) received LEED silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council for its new addition to the development, bringing the total number of LEED certified buildings on Emory's campus to 13.Read the complete article
The county must now clear one final hurdle -- approval by the Georgia Department of Transportation -- before construction can begin. Pending G-DOT approval, the expected start date for construction is summer 2010.
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Composting Program Expands to Hospitals Last fall, the smallest and most compact of Emory's hospitals -- WWH -- began composting preconsumer waste (scraps generated from food preparation and unusable food items left after serving) and some post consumer waste (food that has already been served). In the first month, WWH diverted 5,000 pounds of food from local landfills. In December, a similar pilot program began at EUH focusing on preconsumer waste. After only one month in operation, 7,000 to 8,000 pounds of waste were diverted from the hospital's garbage disposal system.
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Community Challenge Grant Promotes Pedal Power  Recently, Georgia Tech received a $50,000 grant from the Ford Motor Company to establish an innovative bike share program with bikes from the Bike Emory bike share program. Designed by mechanical engineering students from the Sustainable Design and Manufacturing program at Georgia Tech, this unique project creates a kiosk-free bike share infrastructure called "viaCycle." Bicycles can be located and checked in and out with the use of text messages from any mobile phone.
The first full fleet of bikes will be available for use on Emory's campus by summer 2010. Future plans call for fleets at Georgia Tech and in neighborhoods between both campuses that will integrate with Emory's system and improve connectivity in the area.
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1. This month marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. What are Emory's new plans for forest management and preservation? The University is in the process of developing and will soon implement a forest management plan for the entire campus. The plan will identify and prioritize ways to best manage the forested lands on Emory's campus. We also intend to create, restore, enhance and maintain the forested areas placing an emphasis on ecological connectivity, ecosystem function and native biodiversity. 2. Why is Emory developing a forest management plan now?
We have a special responsibility to our natural areas, given the fact that some of the best-preserved hardwood forests in the entire Piedmont Province of the southeastern U.S. exist on Emory property. The University developed a campus land use map, approved by the board of trustees in 2006, which set aside preserved and conserved areas on campus that could not be developed. We are also doing this in support of the University's sustainability vision. This plan serves as comprehensive strategy that will enable Emory to follow 'best practices' in caring for its wooded areas.
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made his return to university as Emory's most recent Distinguished Artist in Residence and began his appointment this spring. Spano is co-teaching, lecturing and presenting programs on literature, philosophy, science and musicology for three weeks during each of the spring semesters of 2010 until 2012; this year’s residency runs through April 18.
Join your neighbors for the annual Druid Hills Home and Garden Tour & Artist Market from April 16 to 18. This year's tour of homes will feature residences exclusively on one of the Clifton Community's legendary tree-lined streets, Oakdale Road.
The long-awaited redevelopment of Emory Village has moved closer to reality with the DeKalb County Commission's approval of the bid to construct the roundabout, implement a road diet and install streetscapes. The road diet is expected to move traffic more consistently through the Village and improve pedestrian safety. 
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