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“A quieter world will be a better and healthier world for all.”
– Quiet Coalition Founder and Chair Dr. Daniel Fink
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Photo credit: by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies
Office noise is a major deterrent for employees
Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Facilities Management Journal website, published out of the United Kingdom, reports that noise is a major deterrent for those returning to in-office work after working from home for a...
Noisy cicadas are coming
Photo credit: Egor Kamelev by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today among other news outlets reported that noisy cicadas are coming to 13 states soon. Cicadas are insects with an interesting survival strategy. They hibernate for several years, then all...
The Noisy Planet website retired
Photo credit: Trinity Kubassek by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The website for Noisy Planet, a national public education campaign focused on preventing noise-induced hearing loss in children, retired as of May 1, 2025. The text and illustrations on the...
Taking a short break
Photo credit: AS Photography as Pexels We are taking a break this week. See you on Monday, May 5.
International Noise Awareness Day
Photo credit: Guduru Ajay bhargav by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1996, Nancy Nadler at New York City’s nonprofit Center for Hearing and Communication, working with The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft and others, created and introduced...
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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