Ok, It's a bit old. December 2007, but I had never heard about it till two days ago when a friend showed it to me.

As I don't know how to actually display a Youtube video, I'll paste the link. It is only 3 mins, it is a clip of 60 minutes.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXW_vzQppGI"]Doomsday Vault project[/ame]

So, this vault has all the seeds of the plants we used in today's world. In one giant refrigerator. There are many organisation (including Microsoft) that have invested in this.

What strikes me is that as a civilization, our civilization has always been based on the concept of healing instead of preventing. On the other hand, this is a MAJOR step towards prevention.