Photo credit: Rajesh Balouria by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with posts that address the impact of human-made sounds on the health and...
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Modified motorcycle exhaust: dirty, noisy and illegal
Photo credit: Pepe Tapia by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I just came across reports of a 2022 lawsuit filed in Utah by a physician group against local Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealers and the Harley-Davidson company. Utah Physicians for a Healthy...
Noisy offices take a toll on our well-being
Photo credit: CoWomen by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In this article on Phys Org, a science and research news aggregator, Oluremi (Remi) Ayoko writes about the...
Bloomberg says restaurant noise means NYC is ‘back’
Photo credit: Following NYC by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article on Grub Street, an online food blog by New York Magazine, portrays former New York City Mayor...
Brooklyn Bridge Park residents seek quieter public bathrooms
Photo credit: Airam Dato-on by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our readers may find this post unusual and interesting. The City reported last week that a couple living in...
UK drivers want noise cameras to catch and fine loud motorists
Photo credit: Omar Ramadan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of the Quiet Coalition blog know that Quiet Communities has followed the introduction of noise...
Perceiving the world as animals do
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The pandemic, as I wrote earlier, allowed more people to focus on the pleasant environmental sounds around them....
The everyday noise that can cause hearing loss in minutes
Photo credit: Toni Ferreira by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Modern life is too loud. Everyday noise exposure can cause noise-induced hearing loss, the only type of hearing loss that is entirely preventable. Many noise exposures are involuntary — the...
How can we reduce noise pollution in our seas?
Photo credit: Agustin Piñero by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Gabriella Sotelo’s article on Treehugger.com highlights the adverse impact of ocean noises on the lives of...