Accepting New Patients

Laureate Medical Group is accepting new patients at its Midtown location. Conveniently located in the Northside/Midtown Medical Building, this location is equipped to offer a variety of onsite, non-invasive diagnostic tests. Our board-certified physicians offer comprehensive and compassionate patient-centered care, with services including:

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For Appointments Call: 404-892-2131

Eco Briefs

AgLanta Eats, a hyperlocal food festival, will feature a variety of tastings prepared by top chefs utilizing the freshest ingredients from AgLanta growers and metro Atlanta farms. The event, set for July 15 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Atlanta Botanical Garden, will also feature live music, garden tours, and a silent auction. Profits from the event will support the AgLanta Grows-A-Lot program, which provides local growers with access to underutilized land through a partnership between Groundwork Atlanta and the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Resilience.

The city’s Chief Resilience Officer Amol Naik has left the role to focus on a family member diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Chief Equity Officer Bill Hawthorne will serve as interim CRO and oversee the One Atlanta office.

Sustainability promoter Southface Institute worked with a myriad of partners to create “Water Audit Guidance for Commercial Buildings.” The multiyear effort to create the first comprehensive guide to propose water efficiency measures for commercial buildings included City Energy Project, headed by the Institute for Market Transformation and the National Resource Defense Council, together with Southface Institute, H.W. (Bill) Hoffman & Associates, the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge (and partners) and 20 local governments. The goals of this widely applicable resource are to conserve water, boost local economies and reduce pollution.

Park Pride has awarded Friends of Waterworks Greenspace a grant for a hammock grove, the first in Atlanta. The funds were used to purchase and install a series of orange steel posts with flanges and clamps so guests can bring their own hammock or slackline to install between the posts. Hammock groves have become increasingly popular in parks across the world. The greenspace is on the eastern edge of the Atlanta City Waterworks Hemphill Reservoir at the northwest corner of Northside Drive and 17th Street.

A large crowd gathered at the Foundry at Puritan Mill on the Westside for the 6th annual Root Ball, Trees Atlanta’s most significant annual fundraiser. Shane Thomas and Michael Bishop were sponsors of this year’s successful event which included a casual buffet catered by Dennis Dean, an open bar and live and silent auctions. Co-Executive Director and Chief Program Officer Eric Levine recognized Ryan Gravel, whose Georgia Tech thesis about the Atlanta BeltLine project 20 years ago became a reality.

Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. will be entering the design stage this summer for the second phase of Boulevard Crossing Park. Cambridge-based Agency Landscape + Planning and Atlanta-based Perkins+Will were selected to lead the planning and design of this 25-acre park on the southeast side.

Creative Solar USA experienced record-setting growth during the first quarter of 2019, reflecting a decade-long trend in the growth of the solar energy market in the Southeastern United States. CEO and Founder of Creative Solar USA, Russell Seifert said he is elated by the company’s role in ongoing solar market expansion throughout the region. “Residential and commercial solar energy are on pace to have the market’s strongest year ever in Georgia,” he said. For more, visit creativesolarusa.com.