Doomsday Seed Bank

Category(-ies): Plant Conservation , Plants, Food and Medicine , Snippets

One hundred countries have backed a “doomsday seed vault”, deep inside a frozen arctic mountain on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. The vault, guarded by polar bears and steel airlock doors, is planned to contain seeds of all the world's crops, as an insurance against global catastrophe.

Work Begins on Arctic Seed Vault – BBC

Fort Knox For Seeds via The Little Garden weblog.

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Global Dimming

Category(-ies): Climate Change , Snippets

“Each year less light reaches the surface of the Earth. No one is sure what's causing global dimming – or what it means for the future.”

Goodbye Sunshine from The Guardian.

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The Sixty-Four Dollar Tomato

Category(-ies): Plants, Food and Medicine , Snippets

$64 Tomato: A Quest for the Perfect Garden from NPR

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Fuel your car with corn (or not)

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Producing ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops is not worth the energy

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Heronswood Closes

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World-famous Heronswood Nursery closes (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Paradise lost: Heronswood uprooted (Seattle Times)

List of Heronswood-Sourced Plants in the UBC Botanical Garden Collections

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