ELEGANT SIMPLICITY FOR A SPED-UP WORLD: Accounting & Being Accountable for the Future
March 24, 2008 by ren
Filed under Corporate Finance
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 …read more





