Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by gilles_bertaux » Sun, May 15, 2016, 10:14 PM UTC

Svalbard Global Seed Vault
en.wikipedia.org

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by vitarilassata » Wed, May 18, 2016, 10:43 AM UTC

Here a really nice Ted Talk about it: https://www.ted.com/talks/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_pro...

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by jdiez17 » Wed, May 18, 2016, 10:51 AM UTC

Veritasium made a great video about the Svalbard Seed Vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_OEsf-1qgY

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by INTPenis » Wed, May 18, 2016, 11:18 AM UTC

>In Norway, government-funded construction projects exceeding a certain cost must include artwork.

I'm a swede and I am constantly pleasantly surprised by public policy in our scandinavian countries.

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by Blahah » Wed, May 18, 2016, 11:51 AM UTC

Anyone interested in Svalbard, which focuses on crop seeds, might also be interested in the less glamorous Millennium Seed Bank which focuses on wild plant seeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnersh...

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by arien » Wed, May 18, 2016, 12:15 PM UTC

Mankind's Plan B, protected by polar bears :)

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by ashitlerferad » Wed, May 18, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

Blahah wrote: post #5

Anyone interested in Svalbard, which focuses on crop seeds, might also be interested in the less glamorous Millennium Seed Bank which focuses on wild plant seeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnersh...

But which is more important?

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by pinouchon » Wed, May 18, 2016, 1:17 PM UTC

jdiez17 wrote: post #3

Veritasium made a great video about the Svalbard Seed Vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_OEsf-1qgY

I was about to post the same link. Very informative video and enjoyable to watch. I love how they say that North Korea is just next to America.

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by bjacobel » Wed, May 18, 2016, 1:23 PM UTC

This is a Wikipedia article and as such not "news," in my opinion. Reddit is a better place to post this type of content.

Re: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Post by digi_owl » Wed, May 18, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

ashitlerferad wrote: post #7

Blahah wrote: post #5

Anyone interested in Svalbard, which focuses on crop seeds, might also be interested in the less glamorous Millennium Seed Bank which focuses on wild plant seeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnersh...

But which is more important?

Hard to tell.

The seed vault seems focused on plants that are in productive use at this moment, while the seed bank seems to cover wild plants.

The latter may be interesting for the future if we discover that a certain plant have some kind of useful property.