Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When I wrote the article “Aircraft Noise: The Ailment and the Treatment” in 2001, I suggested that residents who...
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How can we deal with city sounds?
Photo credit: Deane Bayas by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article posted by nonprofit Strong Towns begins by stating that one's view on urban sounds — positive or...
March 3 is World Hearing Day
Photo credit: Sahil prajapati by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition March 3 is World Hearing Day, established by the World Health Organization in 2007 to draw attention to hearing and the care of people with auditory difficulties. Each year, WHO establishes a...
Measuring noise at the bedroom window
Photo credit: Scott Webb by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition At the recent webinar, Sounding the Alarm on Noise - NYC meets TO, all attendees agreed that the hour passed much too quickly. Hosted by No More Noise Toronto founder Ingrid Buday, the...
Elon Musk thinks flying cars are dumb
Cult classic film "Back to the Future" features a flying, time-traveling car. Photo credit: Rebecca Roth/NASA Image and Video Library by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The SupercarBlondie automotive entertainment website reports that Elon Musk, CEO of...
Contrail studies need to look at noise pollution
Photo credit: Anton Kudryashov by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies While some people are familiar with the cloudy white lines that follow planes, I don’t know if everyone...
Op-ed spurs noise pollution debate
Photo credit: Daniel Frank by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers might not be surprised by this Jersey City Times op-ed that speaks to the lack of...
Quiet Communities featured in Hearing Health Magazine
Photo credit: Bayu jefri by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition and its parent organization Quiet Communities, Inc. are in the current issue of Hearing Health Magazine, published by the Hearing Health Foundation. On page 14, Quiet...
The sound of injustice
Photo credit: Lucas Pezeta by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Acoustic ecologists at Colorado State University published a study in which they found that there is greater...