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ELEGANT SIMPLICITY FOR A SPED-UP WORLD: Accounting & Being Accountable for the Future

by ren on March 24th, 2008

An impregnable storage for seeds was recently inaugurated in Longyearbyen, Norway, to ensure food for the future in the event of “war, natural disasters, lack of funding or simply poor agricultural management.”

An article in cnn.com/Europe reports: “A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world took delivery of its first shipment Tuesday. Dubbed the “Doomsday Vault,” the seed bank on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean is considered the ultimate safety net for the world’s seed collections, protecting them from a wide range of threats including war, natural disasters, lack of funding or simply poor agricultural management.

The inaugural shipment represent 268,000 distinct samples of seeds, with each sample containing a hundred-plus seeds and originating from a different farm or field around the world. In all, the shipment of seeds secured in the vault Tuesday weighed approximately 10 tons, filling 676 boxes.

The shipment amounts to a 100 million seeds in total, ranging from major African and Asian food staples like maize, rice, and wheat to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato, according to the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which is paying to collect and maintain the seeds.

Eventually the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, as it is officially known, will hold as many as 4.5 million distinct samples of seeds — or some 2 billion seeds in total — encompassing almost every variety of most important food crops in the world, the Global Crop Diversity Trust said.”

Jennifer Hoffmann of My Organized Biz lists other ideas for a sped-up world.

Images from Microsoft Clipart

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