Photo credit: Ingrid Buday, Founder NMNT by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition has been notified that No Noise Toronto will be hosting a webinar on Oct. 21 about noise cameras. For those who don’t know what a noise camera is, it is like a...
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Norwegians celebrate end of noisy bitcoin mine
Photo credit: Roger Brown by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition DL News reports that residents of Stokmarknes in northern Norway are glad that a noisy bitcoin mine closed. The facility had loud air cooling systems, making noise that local residents described...
Airport neighbors report restless nights of sleep
Photo credit: Stas Knop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our posts already know that there are studies that link aircraft noise to loss of sleep, but I...
National Protect Your Hearing Month
Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. As I have written before, I’m ambivalent about special months or days, whether for health topics or even such favorites as Mother’s Day or...
We’re sick of noise pollution
Photo credit: Sergei Starostin by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of Stan Cox’s article on the Naked Capitalism website is: "We’re getting sick of noise pollution," but I might prefer: "We’re getting sick from noise pollution." Or, maybe both...
Vermont city trying to protect residents from F-35s
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Madelyn Brown, U.S. Department of Defense by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Residents in Chittenden County, Vermont, have been complaining for...
What is quiet travel?
Photo credit: Leah Newhouse by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Writer Natalie Gale discusses quiet travel on The Good Trade, a Los Angeles-based independent lifestyle publication providing readers with editorials on sustainability, slow living and...
Environmental risks escalate cardiovascular disease
Photo credit: Nancy Bourque by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Environmental risks escalate cardiovascular disease burden, experts warn." That’s the headline of an article from the American Journal of Managed Care by reporter Maggie Shaw. Shaw reported on...
Urban noise pollution harms our hearts
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The News Medical Life Sciences website reports on two studies presented at the current meeting of the European Society of Cardiology. The studies show that urban noise pollution was associated...