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I received an email response regarding this discussion from aschneider. I do not see it posted here though. Mr. Schneider’s viewpoint is important and, I am sorry to say, far to widely held. Therefore I will respond to Mr. Schneider publicly:
Yo, locomotive!
aschneider has responded after your comment on Current.com:
aschneider said:
“I like noise. I think it's cool that you can tell there is life outside your home. I would be depressed if the world was silent.”
Our friend Mr. aschneider claims to “like noise.” In other words, Mr. Schneider would prefer that I choose all of the sounds he is to experience in life and that he have no say in the matter whatsoever. Noise is the interference of a signal. In the auditory world, noise interferes with or prevents reception of sounds and the information carried therein. Noise diminishes Mr. Schneider’s capacity to perceive the entire nuanced spectrum of life outside his home.
I don’t believe that Mr. Schneider actually likes noise, he may enjoy making noise for others to endure, but he, like every other human, does not want others to choose what sounds he will hear.
Furthermore, if we take Mr. Schneider’s words as a genuine, we might conclude that his perception of the world is limited to an acoustic dualism of only “noise” and “silence”, each extreme offering NO acoustic information whatsoever—“noise” overwhelming true sound and “silence” being the absence of sound. In Mr. Schneider’s world there is no “quiet” and no “sound” only “noise” and “silence.”

Amazing that people can invent things to muffle sound, but when it comes to motorcycles it is not part the equipment. Quantity of noise is more the factor than the quality of noise.

You just proved my point!

Just to clarify here. Excessive NOISE it is not at the same level of potatoes and avocados where you can preferentially choose one over the other based on taste.

Excessive noise it is an invasive energy and therefore a pollution. To say you like noise, that also means you like pollution and therefore you won't mind to use it to harm or oppress others in the Community.

aschneider: Yes, P.K.Dick's "Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep" (BladeRunner) spoke directly to this.

I don't think that is what stopNoise is talking about. The invasive, 'nasty' boilerfactory kinds of sounds that we have to put up with: the sonolert of a backing truck at 90dB in a residential area (because they just wont pay for a human make sure there is no body in harm's way) -- the roar of a street race at 2:30AM -- a fighter jet plane rocketing overhead with afterburner at full throttle.

I'm guessing that you really would not miss those sounds.

Neither would I.

wow wonderful amazing video

Neighborhood Noise and its consequences (PDF): by Arline Bronzaft. http://www.noiseoff.com/media/cenyc.noise.report.pdf
Publications on the Mental and Physical Health Effects of Noise, Regulating and Mitigating Noise: http://www.cenyc.org/greenlife/noise/pub
A Voice To End The Government's Silence on Noise http://www.lhh.org/noise/archives/23-1/voice.html
Beware: Noise Is Hazardous To Our Childrens Development http://www.lhh.org/noise/archives/22-1/beware.html
Aircraft Noise: The Ailment & The Treatment http://www.lhh.org/noise/archives/hrq_aircraftnoise.html
Assert Your Right To Peace And Quiet! http://www.lhh.org/noise/archives/25-1/right.html
Clamoring for Quiet: New Ways to Mitigate Noise. (2005) Environmental Health Perspectives. http://www.noiseoff.org/media/ehp.113.pa46.pdf
Decibel Hell: The Effects of Living in a Noisy World (2005) Environmental Health Perspectives http://www.noiseoff.org/media/ehp.113.pa34.pdf
Noise that Annoys: Regulating Unwanted Sound (2005) Environmental Health Perspectives. http://www.noiseoff.org/media/ehp.113.pa42.pdf
Noise Groups
League for the Hard of Hearing Hearing rehabilitation and human services agency. http://www.lhh.org/
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse Non-profit organization with extensive online noise related resources. http://www.nonoise.org/
NoiseOFF An organization dedicated to combating the noise that is ruining communities everywhere. http://www.noiseoff.org/
Silent Majority Information on car alarms. http://www.silentmajorityny.org/
Lower the Boom: http://www.lowertheboom.org

United States aviation transportation policies ignore the hazards of airport-related noise: Arline L. Bronzaft, PH.D.
Arline L. Bronzaft is a Professor Emerita at Lehman College, City University of New York and serves as a member of the Council on the Environment of New York (non-paid volunteer, appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as well as the three previous Mayors). Dr. Bronzaft does research, writes, lectures, and advises anti-noise groups, in the U.S. and abroad, on the hazards of noise to health and well-being. http://www.areco.org/US%20denies%20noise%20harm.pdf
Key Note address to the The UK Noise Association: National Conference “Tackling Noise: Time for Action” held in conjunction with Napier University, Edinburgh 2003. Achieving Change: Working toward a quieter, more humane society. Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D. http://www.ukna.org.uk/index_files/page0005.htm
Children & Noise
Noise poses a serious threat to our children’s hearing, health, learning and behavior. Recent research suggests that quiet promotes an environment which will foster learning, as well as the opportunity for parents and children to enjoy each other’s company. Parents must analyze their own home and recreational activities and make every effort to include quiet times with their children, reading, talking around the dinner table and listening to their children. http://www.lhh.org/noise/children/index.html
World Health Organization: Guidelines for Community Noise:
ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS OF NOISE: The following summary, prepared by Louis Hagler, MD, is taken from a 100+ page World Health Organization Guideline (Guideline for Community Noise) that provides information about the harmful effects of noise on human health. http://www.nonoise.org/library/whonoise/whoresponse.htm
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague: Lisa Goines, RN and Louis Hagler, MD. Southern Medical Journal, Volume 100: March 2007, pages 287-294.
“Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Environmental noise consists of all the unwanted sounds in our communities except that which originates in the workplace. Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant. Noise produces direct and cumulative adverse effects that impair health and that degrade residential, social, working, and learning environments with corresponding real (economic) and intangible (well-being) losses. It interferes with sleep, concentration, communication, and recreation. The aim of enlightened governmental controls should be to protect citizens from the adverse effects of airborne pollution, including those produced by noise. People have the right to choose the nature of their acoustical environment; it should not be imposed by others.” http://www.nonoise.org/library/smj/smj.htm

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Wow! Awareness is a powerful and therapeutic medicine.

How can some of us from out of state help?

Are there sites that explore the health risks that we don't hear about and can be attributed to Noise Pollution?

“The men whose labors brought forth the Constitution of the United States had the street outside Independence Hall covered with earth so that their deliberations might not be disturbed by passing traffic. Our democracy presupposes the deliberative process as a condition of thought and of responsible choice by the electorate.”
--Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
"Interference with speech communication by noise is among the most significant adverse effects of noise on people. Free and easy speech communication is probably essential for full development of individuals and social relations, and freedom of speech is but an empty phrase if one cannot be heard or understood because of noise."
-Environmental Protection Agency (1978).
http://www.pollutionissues.com/Na-Ph/Noise-Control-Act-of-1972.html
In passing the Noise Control Act (NCA) of 1972, Congress hoped to "promote an environment for all Americans free from noise that jeopardizes health or welfare." The Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was charged with overseeing noise-abatement activities and coordinating its programs with those of other federal agencies that play an important role in noise control. The Noise Control Act was amended by the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 to promote the development of effective state and local noise control programs, to provide funds for noise research, and to produce and disseminate educational materials to the public on the harmful effects of noise and ways to effectively control it.
Throughout the 1970s ONAC issued reports identifying the products that are major sources of noise pollution and providing information on ways to control the noise they generate, for example, the regulation of noise emissions from aircraft. EPA publications included a public education and information manual for noise for schools and pamphlets on sound, sound measurement, and noise as a health problem. The EPA assisted communities in noise surveying, in designing local noise ordinances, and in the training of noise enforcement officers.
Faced with strong industry opposition, ONAC lost its funding in 1981 and the EPA's programs to control noise were halted. The Noise Control Act has never been rescinded, but it has also yet to be refunded. As of 2002, agencies such as the Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, and Federal Railroad Administration have developed their own noise control programs, with each agency setting its own criteria. In addition, states and cities have enacted noise ordinances, with some localities limiting noise more effectively than others.
Across the United States, antinoise groups are pressing local authorities to curb noise intrusions that have grown considerably over the past twenty years and are urging legislators to refund ONAC. Comprehensive federal oversight is needed to address transportation and product noises. With Europe and Japan working toward implementing modern noise-control policies (such as noise labeling of products), American manufacturers may find it difficult to meet foreign noise-emission standards. The European Noise Directive requires member nations to assess environmental noise exposure levels for their populations and to develop action plans to limit noise.

Some people mistake this social cause as being a personal one. So they think I am doing this because I am the only one being hit by acoustic pollution. The issue is bigger than that and it involves corruption on all levels of society as the government, construction, industry and commerce. No wonder many clowns pops up from all directions trying to spoof the issue. Thanks for your comment!

Keep up your fight. In Honolulu it isn't motorcycles as much as the City Busses and backing trucks. And the firecrackers on chinese New Year -- but I kind of like that one: It is welcome, not invasive.