advocacy

How to tame the leafblower culture

Episode 18 of Soundproofist is about leafblower noise and how to fight it

Community organizers share struggles and successes in reducing gas-powered leafblower noise You know the sound: a noisy leafblower revving and roaming in your neighborhood. Many of us experience it daily. On weekend mornings when we’re trying to sleep, or while

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Noise and the city – with health advocate Dr. Erica Walker

In Soundproofist episode 2, we spoke with Dr. Erica Walker, founder of Noise in the City in Boston.

To be an effective advocate, you need data Dr. Erica Walker is a Harvard-trained researcher and an advocate for quiet spaces. She studies the health impacts of noise and maps noise levels in the Boston metropolitan area. And she shares