Photo credit: Samson Katt by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In 2016, lawyer and Buffalo resident Tony Rupp shouted at a car in downtown Buffalo that had its lights off...
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A new ‘quiet category’ for pickleball products
Photo credit: ALTEREDSNAPS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Pickleball, the national governing body for the newly popular sport, just announced the launch of its "quiet category" for pickleball equipment. The new category will promote products that...
NYPD announces new indoor shooting range
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies New Yorkers deal with noise every day, whether it's from traffic, construction or airplanes. Over the...
Flights contribute to noisiest cities in America rankings
Photo credit: Chait Goli by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Ranking first on any list usually leads to boasting. Even making the "top ten" in a list brings joy, but I...
Road noise reduction solutions coming out of Europe
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency is focused on projects...
The Starbucks of the future will be quieter
Photo credit: Dom J by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN reports that the corporate giant Starbucks announced the "Starbucks of the future" with a first store in Washington, D.C. According to reporters Jordan Valinsky and Eva Rothenberg, Starbucks opened...
Music in the LA Metro could be harming employees
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a researcher on the adverse effects of elevated train noise on children’s learning, I tend to pay...
Humans are impacting migrating animal species
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Human beings have endangered their own health and well-being by exacerbating climate change and surrounding...
Occupational noise and arthritis
Photo credit: Yury Kim by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is occupational noise exposure associated with arthritis? A new report in BMC Public Health suggests that it might be. The authors used data collected by the CDC's National Health and Nutrition...