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– Quiet Coalition Founder and Chair Dr. Daniel Fink
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Cate Blanchett hates leaf blowers
Photo credit: Vlad Vasnetsov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Architectural Digest reports on Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett’s decades-long fight against leaf blowers. Although the fight is against all leaf blowers, I suspect that gas-powered leaf blowers...
FCC seeks public comment on law governing noise
Photo credit: Lisa from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Federal Communication Commission announced that it is seeking public input on coming updates to rules related to the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act. It has been...
Our noisy world is damaging our health
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Noise exposure, hearing loss and cognitive impairment
Photo credit: lil artsy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The February 2025 issue of Frontiers in Public Health has an article by Chinese researchers reporting a correlation between noise exposure, occupational hearing loss and cognitive impairment. The...
The quiet power of a car-free neighborhood
Photo credit: Julia Boateng by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Bloomberg reporter David Zipper recently wrote about the quiet power of car-free neighborhoods, based on a recent experience he had in the German city of Leipzig. Zipper found himself there...
Electric construction equipment promises quiet
Photo credit: SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Last summer I hiked in Norway with my brothers. The trip ended in the northern city of Trondheim, where on my morning walk I saw electric heavy construction equipment. I had also seen...
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“I am seeing a lot more interest and growing awareness about the adverse impacts of noise on health and I hope this will lead to policies that will be focused on noise abatement… Organizations such as Quiet Communities have made an impact on educating people to the dangers of noise and suggesting ways that we can reduce noise pollution.”
– Arline Bronzaft, PhD