It’s early evening and Ponce City Market in Atlanta’s midtown is buzzing — with families standing in line at the 20+ food stalls, Beltline walkers stopping in for a snack, and groups of co-workers settling in for an after-work drink. Though the restaurants are busy serving, they won’t use everything they have in stock — […]
Village Capital Pathways, an initiative of venture firm Village Capital and global financial institution UBS, has launched its inaugural Atlanta program to help underrepresented founders of high-growth companies. The Atlanta program is being implemented locally by partner Goodie Nation, a social impact tech startup incubator, who helped identify the 10 startups in the 2018 cohort. […]
A recent Georgia Tech study found that people in food deserts, a term used by the USDA to describe communities with limited access to grocery stores, eat food that is 5-17 percent higher in fats, sugars and cholesterol. The university gathered three million geo-tagged posts on Instagram from residents in both non-food desert areas and […]
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport employs more than 63,000, takes up 4,700 acres, and sees an annual foot traffic of more than 20 times the population of metro Atlanta — though it is an undisputed global leader, it’s quite a behemoth to innovate within. That was the challenge embraced by 22 teams in the ATL Thinks! Airport Hackathon, organized by […]
As Southerners we like to eat; it’s a cultural prerequisite. But that pile of fried chicken on our stack of waffles (with perfect parts syrup and hot sauce) leaves us with more than enough leftovers. Globally we spend $218 billion dollars on food that goes to waste, and in Georgia 800,000 tons of the waste is […]