Donate Now
Photo credit: Washington State Dept of Transportation licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It has been over 40 years since I conducted my two...
Photo credit: Eslivb licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It was indeed interesting to read that Professor Susumu Hara of Nagoya University in...
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: 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: 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: Arthur Krijgsman by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Pam Millett, writing a follow-up article in Canadian Audiologist to one written earlier discussing the...
Photo credit: Mike B by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Have you ever wondered why does your car’s speedometer go up to 160 miles per hour (mph)--or even 200 mph in the photo above--when your can might only be able to do 90 or 100? I have, but I never...
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition No, The Quiet Coalition doesn’t really have an advice columnist named Dear Abby, but it does have pioneering noise researcher and activist Arline Bronzaft, PhD, Professor Emerita at the City...