Doomsday Vault

Robin sent us this rather lengthy article from Globe Media that talks about the Doomsday Vault. This week, the vault will be receiving its first 100 million seeds (out of approximately 2.25 billion expected) to store in case of a global catastrophe:

"The underground, bombproof shelter, financed by the Norwegian government and located in the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Ocean, is designed to safeguard the genetic diversity of the plants backing the world's food supply, in case political instability, nuclear war or climatic upheaval over the centuries wipes out key seed varieties from their countries of origin.

The vault has the capacity to hold a hoard of about 2.25 billion seeds, enough to preserve every important agricultural crop on Earth. But it will inter for safekeeping today an initial shipment of 100 million seeds from 268,000 varieties of wheat, barley, lentils and other crops, the beginning of a genetic trove that could come in handy for future generations."

The article was a little too long and detailed for us to just cut and paste the entire thing, so Click Here to read the full story.

One of our staff members, who will remain anonymous, suggested that he had some seeds to contribute to the cause....we stopped him mid sentence and requested that he say no more...