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Photo credit: Julia Boateng by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Bloomberg reporter David Zipper recently wrote about the quiet power of car-free neighborhoods, based on a recent experience he had in the German city of Leipzig. Zipper found himself there...
Photo credit: nappy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Dallas Morning News recently ran an article by Christopher Elliott about travel noise. Elliott notes that travel is noisy, both in airplanes but also when staying in hotels or walking along city...
Photo credit: Quiet Communities Staff by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Every day, people are affected by harmful noise from leaf blowers, vehicles with noisy mufflers, aircraft and data centers located too close to residential neighborhoods. The list...
Photo credit: Dương Nhân by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When you read an article that states that an interdisciplinary group of researchers have received a sizable...
Photo credit: Matthias Zomer by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Do we actually hear silence? That’s the title of a Scientific American article by Shayla Love. Love reports that researchers at Johns Hopkins University did an experiment to study if this is...
Photo credit: William Alexander by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That fact that adverse noise impacts are receiving more attention is evidenced by the numerous...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The EuroWeekly site reports that noise is a problem on Spain’s Costa del Sol. Reporter Adam Woodward writes that noise from vehicle exhausts and other sources is a problem in Benalmadena’s Arroyo de...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We can close our eyes and fall asleep on a sunny beach after lunch, but we cannot close our ears. Hearing evolved eons ago to help animals either find food or avoid being eaten, and we can hear even...
Photo credit: Krivec Ales by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As someone who gets many calls regarding noise problems, I've heard from many people around the country about...