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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...
Image courtesy of the World Health Organization by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The World Health Organization sponsors World Hearing Day annually, on March 3. A theme is chosen each year. This year’s theme is, “To hear for life, listen with care.”...
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition SoundPrint’s first annual 2021 Find Your Quiet Place Challenge will be a benchmark for noise data. SoundPrinters submitted sound levels at over 2000 different venues, and nominated over 350 Quiet Places....
Photo credit: ND-Photo.nl licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Jamie McGriff, KUTV, reports that a Utah legislator wants to cut down noise...
Photo credit: Thiago Matos from Pexels John Stewart is the lead author of Why Noise Matters (with Arline L. Bronzaft as contributing co-author) and is recognized as a long-term UK advocate to lessen noise pollution, especially aircraft noise. With the formation of...
Photo credit: Scott Beale licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition People living close to construction sites attest to the stress caused by piercing backup beeps intruding in their space. With so many people now working...
Photo credit: Cameron Casey from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise was first declared a public health hazard in 1968 by U.S. Surgeon General William Stewart at a conference entitled “Noise as a Public Health Hazard.” And, that’s the title of...
Photo credit: Chan Walrus from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Restaurant noise is my bete noire. I developed tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and hyperacusis (a sensitivity to loud noise) after a one-time exposure to loud noise in a restaurant on...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition, and Jamie L. Banks, PhD, MS, Executive Director, Quiet Communities, Inc., Co-Founder, The Quiet Coalition A new California law, AB 1346, phases out the sale of new small off-road gasoline engines. The law, based on...