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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted.

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The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch

TechCrunch

That’s a whole lot of potential mouths to feed; seafood consumption is poised to nearly double by 2050, per researchers at Stanford. The BNPL space is difficult for a variety of reasons, and to still be disrupting in the category — despite public market rumblings — is impressive. – Harri Weber. hospital systems.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. It’s something he’s promised to update at the start of every year until 2050, “as I will then be 95 years old, and I suspect I’ll be a little too exhausted by then to carry on arguments about why I was right or wrong on particular points.” Fair enough. Do me proud.