Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition US News and World Report correctly informs readers that noisy holiday toys are no gift to a child’s hearing. Reporter Dennis Thompson covers a news release from the American Academy of...
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Shipping noise interrupts whales’ communication
Photo credit: Artem Podrez by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over 40 years ago, I conducted two studies that examined the impacts of train noise on children’s reading...
New York Times offers teaching tools for noise lesson
Photo credit: Agung Pandit Wiguna by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times offers teachers free lesson planning information on its site, The Learning Network. The site offers resources, strategies and ideas for teaching. On Dec. 11, reporter...
New York City approves bills meant to decrease noise pollution
Photo credit: Alex Azabache by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The New York City Council has introduced four new policies, under the Stop the Noise Act, to address the...
Happy New Year
Photo credit: Mikhail Nilov Quiet Communities wishes you a quiet and peaceful new year.
Happy Holiday
Photo credit: Mikhail Nilov Quiet Communities wishes you a quiet and peaceful holiday.
Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft interviewed for the New York Times
Photo credit: Susan Santoro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft was mentioned in a recent article in The New York Times about noise and noise cameras in New York City. The story appeared in both the Metropolitan and...
Bay Area legislators seek action from the FAA
Photo credit: Tae Fuller by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jordan Parker informs us that five congressional...
Welsh government passes air and noise pollution bill
Photo credit: Lisa Fotios by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The number of studies that link noise to adverse health effects have been increasing the past few years....