This post is a participation in Blog Action Day, an annual event held every October 15^th that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.

This year's Blog Action Day issue is climate change. But rather than add to the plethora of discussion about why climate change is bad, I want to share a very interesting initiative that responds to the challenge. And interestingly, as "biodiversity warrior" Cary Fowler points out in this TED video, this initiative may be the only example of a project in which all the countries in the world, literally, have come together to do something that is both long-term, sustainable, and positive. Mr. Fowler describes here a backup seed bank system, hosted by Norway, with the task of protecting our agricultural output in the face of climate change by preserving diversity in the genetic resources of our crops. A mighty task indeed.