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Svalbard Global Seed Vault

63 points by gilles_bertaux 10y ago

vitarilassata 10y ago
Here a really nice Ted Talk about it: https://www.ted.com/talks/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_protecting_the_future_of_food https://www.ted.com/talks/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_pro...
jdiez17 10y ago
Veritasium made a great video about the Svalbard Seed Vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_OEsf-1qgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_OEsf-1qgY
- pinouchon 10y ago
  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.
INTPenis 10y ago
>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.
- germanier 10y ago
  It's not only in Scandinavian countries. Many countries, such as Germany and the US adopted that policy at the end of the 1920s or beginning of 1930s. In the former it's still in place and Wikipedia tells me that more than half of the US states have a "Percent for Art" program which is essentially that.
Blahah 10y ago
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_Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnersh...
- ashitlerferad 10y ago
  But which is more important?
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    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.
arien 10y ago
Mankind's Plan B, protected by polar bears :)
bjacobel 10y ago
This is a Wikipedia article and as such not "news," in my opinion. Reddit is a better place to post this type of content.
- noir_lord 10y ago
  > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Nothing in there about content having to be "news".

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

jdiez17 10y ago

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

pinouchon 10y ago
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.

INTPenis 10y ago

>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.

germanier 10y ago
It's not only in Scandinavian countries. Many countries, such as Germany and the US adopted that policy at the end of the 1920s or beginning of 1930s. In the former it's still in place and Wikipedia tells me that more than half of the US states have a "Percent for Art" program which is essentially that.

Blahah 10y ago

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_Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnersh...

ashitlerferad 10y ago
But which is more important?
- digi_owl 10y ago
  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.

arien 10y ago

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

bjacobel 10y ago

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

noir_lord 10y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Nothing in there about content having to be "news".