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The Whole Earth As The Village8 comments

Frank wrote 2 weeks ago: A few days ago, I came across the video clip below from the 1960s TV series, The Prisoner . For thos … more →

Tags: Conspiracy, Ancient Astronaut Theory, Ancient UFO cave paintings, Eden Project, Mars New World, New World Order, The Prisoner TV series

Trending in my Mind

bcharmelin wrote 1 month ago: Ever wondered what it is Ben Harmelin thinks about? Speculate no more. Until recently, mapping Ben H … more →

Tags: General, Ben Harmelin, IAUBHB, BHBMI, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, japanese giant salamander

The Berry Botanic Garden

myberriesfarm wrote 1 month ago: Portland State University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via Wikipedia Advancing the Art and Scienc … more →

Tags: Berry Botanic Garden, Portland State University, PayPal, united states, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, bank, donation

Genetic resources - the impact of the University of Birmingham

Mike Jackson wrote 2 months ago: The University of Birmingham, a major English university, received its royal charter in 1900, althou … more →

Tags: Birmingham, Science, People, Germplasm conservation, genetic resources, Global Crop Diversity Trust, birmingham university

The Berry Botanic Garden

myberryfarm wrote 2 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Advancing the Art and Science of Banking Seeds In 1983 The Berry Botanic Garden … more →

Tags: united states, Berry Botanic Garden, Portland State University, PayPal, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, BBG, seed

After 4 Years, Checking Up on The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

crisisboom wrote 3 months ago: theatlantic.com For its birthday, Svalbard will receive seeds from war-torn Syria and celebrate year … more →

Tags: Artic, North Pole, climate change, Agriculture

Good Crop, Bad Crop: Syrian Agricultural Samples Escape to Norway

wmistudymovie wrote 3 months ago: #Svalbard Global Seed Vault now holds 740,000 samples, representing 75% of #Earth's #biodiversi … more →

Tags: News, technology, Syria, Norway, International Center for Agricultural Research in the D, Cary Fowler, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Nordic Genetic Resources Center, Biodiversity

A Giant Library of Seeds!

curiousstgeorge wrote 3 months ago: You learn something new every day! We spent the morning cataloging some new books, including a non-f … more →

Tags: Library Studies, Non-Fiction, Elizabeth Walker

The Seed Vault

Tadhg wrote 3 months ago: Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Conservationist Architecture – ‘Natural’ Rhetor … more →

Tags: natural world, Architecture, Julian Grater, Conservation, Forbidden Planet, jacob's island

Russian Scientists Grow Flower From 30,000 Year Old Seeds

J Roycroft wrote 3 months ago: February 21, 2012 - Ok so this isn’t the usual content typically found here at The Roycroft Re … more →

Tags: News, History, Life, ice age, Russian Academy of Sciences, 30000 year old flower, Kew Gardens, Siberia, Silene stenophylla

This Plant Is 30,000 Years Old

Steve Goddard wrote 3 months ago: It dates dates from the Pleistocene Age,  30,000 years ago, before agriculture, before writing, … more →

Tags: [on air], videos, Music, 30000 year-old plant, flowering plant revived after 30000years, Pleistocene age, Silene stenophylla, radiocarbon dating

Why Svalbard, seed bank is in the wrong place.

probaway wrote 3 months ago: When The Earth Ark Project is mentioned to people they usually respond with a statement that there a … more →

Tags: EarthArk, The Earth Ark Project, Very long term cold storage

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 3 months ago: Ensuring that the genetic diversity of the world’s food crops is preserved for future generations is … more →

Tags: Earthly/Geo/Astro, Eco/Adaptable, Bio, Vital-Edible-Health, expanding population, climate change, Biological diversity, Seeds, food crops

Too Much Gabes – Episode #10: Zombie Outbreak Preparedness and etc.

Gabriel wrote 4 months ago: Today, us Gabes bring up the finger points of a good zombie survival plan, including my own extremel … more →

Tags: Too Much Gabes, iTunes, Tee, Podcast, Blade, Bloodsport, team guy who almost hit bella with his car, The Road, Cormac Mccarthy

My Next Big Thing.

valerieburchby wrote 6 months ago: Seed saving, Svalbard, and having new big things are some of my new big things. It’s not that … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t1 comment

MI wrote 7 months ago: “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accu … more →

Tags: History, Demographic, Awareness, Global Warming, Motivation, technology, People, Food, Nature

Svalbard Doomsday Vault: Biopiracy by UN Treaty14 comments

geobear7 wrote 10 months ago: How the private Seed Savers Exchange sold out its members to Monsanto Speech delivered by Kent Wheal … more →

Tags: Genetically Engineered Food, biotechnology, Monsanto, Seeds, Genetic engineering, Biotech, FAO, seed vault, Global Crop Diversity Trust

Food & Population

NJ wrote 10 months ago: After a brief respite, I’m back.  This is just a quick post about a recent article from my fav … more →

Tags: FED, Read, Food, world population, High Yielding Variety, Food Industry

Our 'food ark' is in trouble, says National Geographic Magazine

Susan MacMillan wrote 11 months ago: In ILRI’s Forage Genebank on the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa, Cary Fowler, executive director o … more →

Tags: Indigenous Breeds, Biodiversity, Food Security, Agriculture, Pa, CGIAR, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Cary Fowler, Zebu


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