Photo credit: Wavy_ revolution by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In an Autoevolution article, author Florin Amariel describes the evolution of the car horn, combining a comical recounting of early efforts with a strong warning of the health...
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More calls to crack down on noisy cars
Photo credit: Khunkorn Laowisit by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a long-term researcher and writer on the adverse impacts of noise on our health and well-being and...
Once again, a violent response to noise
Photo credit: David McElwee by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am writing again about noise leading to a violent act. In this case, an Oakland, California resident...
Violent responses to noise complaints
Photo credit: Tony Webster licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skie As the GrowNYC board member who oversees our noise activities, I receive many...
Fighting noise in St. Petersburg, Florida
Photo credit: John O'Neill licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Judy Ellis I have lived in Florida for over 40 years. The three main sources of noise I have noticed living in St. Petersburg are “boom cars,” loud parties, and downtown bars and restaurants disturbing nearby...
Noise complaints take deadly turn
Photo credit: Kat Wilcox by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Quiet Coalition readers are well aware of the harmful effects of noise on our mental and physical health....
Loud noises are bad for your health
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Healthline has an excellent article about the dangers of noise for health. In addition to causing hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis, loud noise has non-auditory health effects,...
Quiet Florida aims to cut noise pollution from modified cars
Photo credit: Leif Bergerson by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I was delighted to read Tory Kinley’s article about car noise pollution regulations in which she...
One way to deal with a noisy neighbor
Photo credit: Hossein Zohrevand licensed under CC BY 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on SportsBible.com provides an insight into how the rich and famous deal with the noisy neighbor problem, by doing something that isn’t feasible for us...