Training session on Mean Green mower, courtesy of the American Green Zone Alliance by Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, President, Quiet Communities Inc. With our collaborator, the American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA), Quiet Communities works to help transition municipalities,...
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Working together for a quiet transition
Training session on Mean Green mower, courtesy of the American Green Zone Alliance by Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, President, Quiet Communities Inc. With our collaborator, the American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA), Quiet Communities works to help transition municipalities,...
Silent owls inspire quiet design
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Yes, indeed, humans can learn from other species. Sometimes, we forget this, but Manasee Wagh in her article “Why Owls Are a ‘Spirit...
Military jets make too much noise
Photo credit: AvgeekJoe licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Nina Berman is journalism professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism who spent the 2020-2021 academic year as a Knight Science Journalism...
Personal sound zones in cars?
Photo credit: Hasan Gulec from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Will future cars have individual sound zones for each passenger? Scientists are exploring an algorithm that would let each passenger listen to their own audio without...
When–and how–to protect your hearing
Photo credit: Kindel Media from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ Wirecutter provides sound advice about protecting your hearing, citing updated information from the CDC about safe noise levels. As the Times’ resident noise...
Food packaging has labels. How about noise labels?
Photo by Daniel Fink, MD by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Economists say that an informed consumer is a better consumer although it turns out that most consumers do a bad job of making what would appear to be rational decisions. A whole new field,...
The quiet revolution is here
Photo credit: Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As those who follow this blog may remember, when I’m not writing about noise issues I’m working as a home handyman fixing things. Ah, the joys of home ownership. On this week’s journey to a...
Meet Alice, the first all-electric passenger airplane
Photo courtesy of Eviation by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN reports that Alice, the world’s first all-electric passenger airplane, went through engine testing and may be making test flights in a few weeks. Electric airplanes are the holy grail of...