Below you will find tools for activists, educational resources, and resources that address specific types of noise. For Activists Design or amend your community noise ordinance. Mr. Miyara is a noise expert from the Acoustics Laboratory in Rosario, Argentina. This comprehensive treatment of noise classification and tool for noise abatement will help you create an ordinance that is appropriate to your community. Examine the existing noise ordinances for many large U.S. cities.
Cities are some of the noisiest places on Earth.
Here you can find out how some U.S. cities regulate noise pollution. Here is a short list of ideas to help your voice be heard and work toward a quieter environment. The Quiet List is an internet mailing list and forum for the discussion of noise pollution issues. Then, whatever you send to the Quiet List will go out to everyone else on the list and you will begin receiving messages from others as well. Below you will find stories, descriptions, and tools such as ballot initiatives used by neighbors who organized to fight proposed or existing noise sources in their communities.