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Photo credit: Robert So by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That helicopter noise has disrupted the lives of many residents in New York and New Jersey has been underscored...
Photo credit: Anthony by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Finding Your Quiet Space is the title of this episode of CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD’s, podcast, Chasing Life. In it, Dr. Gupta interviews pioneering acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Even New Yorkers deserve quiet in their lives. That’s certainly true, and that’s the headline for the opinion piece in the New York Daily News in late September. In the piece, Justin Zorn and Leigh...
Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a previous blog post, I wrote about The Quiet Coalition’s “Dear Abby,” noise expert Arline Bronzaft, PhD, who had recorded a noise advice podcast for the Soundproofist website. Dr....
Photo credit: Platon Matakaev by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Leaps website features an article on the toxic effects of noise and what we aren't doing about it by freelance writer Eve Glicksman in its weekly newsletter. Glicksman spoke with me and...
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Get your noise out of my ears! That’s the title of a recent Freakonomics Radio podcast which was updated and re-released as pandemic lockdown noise levels have returned to pre-pandemic...
Photo credit: Enrico Perini by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Generally, residents complain about noise sources in their own communities and ask their public officials...
Photo credit: Garvin St. Villier by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this editorial in the Santa Fe New Mexican, reducing noise is smart public policy. We couldn’t agree more. As the editorial notes, noise from mufflers and drag racing was the...
Photo credit: Backbone Campaign licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Sound Defense Alliance is an organization located in Washington State that...