Saturday, October 16, 2010

Stories That Light Up The Dark by Sanjay Khanna — YES! Magazine

Stories That Light Up The Dark by Sanjay Khanna — YES! Magazine: "Beginning in 2004, the Norwegian government and a group of international agricultural research organizations decided to invest in an idea they hoped would help humanity endure big future unknowns. It’s called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, it sits inside a mountain on an Arctic archipelago and contains the seeds of more than half a million of the world’s crop varieties—in case civil strife, natural disasters, climate change, or other calamities destroy local and regional seed stocks."

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