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Photo credit: Erik Mclean by Jamie Banks, MSc, PhD, President, Quiet Communities Inc. A recent piece from NPR discusses some of the barriers landscaping professionals face when considering the purchase of battery electric lawn mowers. These mowers, powered by...
Photo credit: Monstera by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies GrowNYC is an environmental group in New York City that oversees farmers’ markets, recycling programs, community...
Photo credit: Bidvine by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Home repair and improvement expert Bob Vila--you may remember him from the PBS show, “This Old House”--recently posted this article about using hearing protection when using power tools. I’m glad to...
Photo credit: Oscar Ovalle by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Linda Briskin lets her readers know that she disliked noise from the time she was a child. Apparently, the...
Photo credit: Craig Adderley by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this report on Spectrum NY1 cable television channel, New Yorkers suffer from excessive noise. Is anyone surprised? The “city that never sleeps” has long been one of the noisiest...
Photo credit: Mark Stebnicki by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition How loud is too loud? That’s the question asked in the Tyler Morning Telegraph in an article written by Claudann Jones from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. We city dwellers...
Photo credit: Loïc Manegarium by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Most people, most audiologists, and most doctors don’t know that noise has non-auditory health effects, but it does. The scientific evidence is ample and incontrovertible, and well known in...
Photo credit: Abraham by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies My mother came to New York City from Toronto, as a young woman, married here, and had two children. When I was...
Photo credit: Aleksandar Pasaric by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies “Children who attend schools with more traffic noise show lower cognitive development,” reads the...