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Photo credit: Daniel Durin by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What makes a city less noisy? Soundproofist recently discussed this after its founder visited Copenhagen. He notes that it’s really urban design that helps make a city quieter, including efforts...
Photo credit: jan buchholtz licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition There’s an old saying that every cloud has a silver lining. I’m not sure that’s true, but many clouds--or in this case, no rain cloud in Las Vegas--may indeed...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As I’ve written before, I don’t like special days or months. I think that if something is important, it should be thought about all the time, not just on a special day or month. But I’ve also acknowledged that these...
Photo credit: Jess Loiterton by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies While it may be difficult to think of beautiful Waikiki Beach, Hawaii as a place overwhelmed by noise...
Photo credit: 7inchs by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cetaceans are whales. What’s leaving them stranded on China’s coasts? The Sixth Tone website--surprisingly (at least to me), sponsored by the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party--claims...
Photo credit: Neil R licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What’s the difference between a health problem and a public health problem? A health problem affects an individual, a patient. A public health problem affects populations,...
This photo by Pete Souza is in the public domain by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A year ago I wrote an article that asked, Will pedestrian warning sounds be discernible? I raised concerns about the intended purpose of the Pedestrian Safety...
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies International Noise Awareness Day was initiated in 1996 by the Center for Hearing and Communication and I was thrilled when Nancy...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The first Earth Day took place exactly 52 years ago, April 22, 1970. The environmental movement was still in its infancy, kickstarted by Rachel Carson’s 1962 New Yorker article Silent Spring, which was published as a book...