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Notes

1

Kate McCray grew up in Columbia, Maryland.

2

Masdar City: A sustainable city project built in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

3

Dongtan: A planned eco-city on Chongming Island, in Shanghai, China.

4

Sequestration: An act of budget austerity controls set in place by the Congress of the United States in 2013.

5

BedZED: A sustainable community of one hundred homes completed in 2002 in Hackbridge, London, UK.

6

Sieben Linden: An off-grid settlement in Germany.

7

Dunedin: An Eco Home Village in Dunedin, Florida, USA.

8

While “I play the orchestra” was spoken by Michael Fassbender and written by Aaron Sorkin for the 2015 movie Steve Jobs, it cannot be confirmed that Jobs himself ever uttered this phrase.

9

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which has pioneered the process of 3-D glass printing by embedding a silicon base with polymer nanoparticles.

10

MoPOP: Museum of Popular Culture.

11

Intelligentsia: A popular coffee establishment on Abbot Kinney Blvd.

12

“Y-Q” stands for Yi qi, a late Jurassic, bat-winged dinosaur found in China.

13

Harry R. (Randall) Truman, a casualty of the Mount St. Helens eruption, not to be confused with Harry S. Truman, thirty-third president of the United States.

14

LaCroix carbonated drink is considered to be calorie neutral not calorie negative, while opinions are divided on the legitimate calorie-negative qualities of celery.

15

According to a 2014 EPA study, Americans waste 38.4 million tons of food per year.

16

On November 13, 1985, the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia caused the deaths of approximately 23,000 of the 29,000 people living in the nearby town of Armero.

17

Contraflow lane reversal: A term commonly used in natural disasters by which all lanes of a road are used to channel vehicles in one direction.

18

Mammoth Lakes, California: On May 27, 1982, a false-eruption warning damaged both the town’s economy and confidence in the United States Geological Survey.

19

“Adversity introduces us to ourselves” was originally attributed to Albert Einstein, but spoken in this particular version by President George W. Bush on September 14, 2001, at the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance Service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

20

Lutko moja: Little doll.

21

Josephine Schell (maiden name Begay) is a member of the Navajo Nation.

22

Only after finishing my interviews for this book, did I discover that the film in question, 1977’s Snowbeast, did, in fact, produce an entire creature costume.

23

Interview from the History Channel’s In Search of History, 1997.

24

Bluff Creek is also known as the site of the 1967 “Patterson film” of Bigfoot.

25

In June of 2019, under the Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a twenty-two-page file detailing its laboratory analyses of hair “attached to a tiny piece of skin.” The sample, brought to them in 1976 by the Bigfoot Research Center, was determined to be “of the deer family in origin.”

26

A 2007 study done by David Raichlen of the University of Arizona, Michael Sockol at the University of California, and Herman Pontzer from Washington University in St. Louis “indicate[s] that bipedalism in early, ape-like hominins could indeed have been less costly than quadrupedal knucklewalking.”

27

In 2001, reports of a “kala bandar” (Hindi) or “monkey man” began to terrorize residents of East Delhi, India. These reports were later debunked as a case of “mass hysteria.”