Photo credit: Patrick Pelster licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The headline in the print version of the Los Angeles Times is “The party police are watching you,” but the Times is really writing about noise police. Palm Springs...
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Today is International Noise Awareness Day
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...
Today is Earth Day. A quieter world will be better for us all
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...
Working together for a quiet transition
Training session on Mean Green mower, courtesy of the American Green Zone Alliance by Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, President, Quiet Communities Inc. With our collaborator, the American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA), Quiet Communities works to help transition municipalities,...
Working together for a quiet transition
Training session on Mean Green mower, courtesy of the American Green Zone Alliance by Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, President, Quiet Communities Inc. With our collaborator, the American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA), Quiet Communities works to help transition municipalities,...
Counter-protesters blast “most hated songs” playlist
Photo credit: Daniel Lobo licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Counter-protesters in New Zealand blasted a playlist of “most hated” songs in attempts to disperse anti-government protesters that set up camp outside...
An update on London’s noise camera program
Photo credit: Loco Steve licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article by Nicholas Hellen in London Sunday Times is an update on the...
Drone delivery lands in Los Angeles
Photo credit: HadasBandel licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Los Angeles Jewish Journal reports that a local restaurant, Lenny’s Casita, has started using drone delivery in conjunction with a startup company, Flyby....
Military jets make too much noise
Photo credit: AvgeekJoe licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Nina Berman is journalism professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism who spent the 2020-2021 academic year as a Knight Science Journalism...