Welcome to Peace and Quiet

More and more, artificial, human-generated, undesirable and unhealthy sound unduly burdens the soundscape—the indispensable, integral acoustic component of our environment.

To bring about awareness of this problem, prevent and abate noise as much as possible, the Right to Quiet Society for Soundscape Awareness and Protection was established in 1982.

If you wish to read and learn more about us, our work, and find information on the effects of noise, how to deal with noise problems, and how to protect yourself from noise, you are cordially invited to explore our web site.

If you find our work interesting, have any comments or suggestions to make, please Contact us.

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If you did not like what you saw here, without telling us you might consider leaving quietly.

Thanks for visiting. Upcoming events follow on this page.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: 3788 West 8th Ave., Vancouver (In the lobby of a residential building, one block north of West Broadway and half a block west of Alma Street).

Speaker: Murray Hodgson, PhD CEng, Professor of Acoustics, School of Environmental Health and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UBC.

Topic: Modern challenges regarding acoustics in workplaces, lecture halls etc. and means to successfully meet them with better design and materials. Everyone is welcome.

2008 FIA (Acoustics) Congress
Buenos Aires, Argentina, November, 2008

The 2008 FIA (Acoustics) Congress, organised by the Iboamerican Acoustics Federation and the Acoustics Association of Argentina will be held in Buenos Aires in November 2008.
For information please visit
http://listas.fceia.unr.edu.ar/
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or contact ruido-urbano mailing list
ruido-urbano@fceia.unr.edu.ar

 

13th Annual International Noise Awareness Day was April 16, 2008

On Wednesday April 16, 2008, the 13th annual International Noise Awareness Day was observed throughout North America and in many other countries around the world, co-ordinated by the Noise Center of the New York League for the Hard of Hearing. Locally, members and supporters of the Right to Quiet Society distributed leaflets in Vancouver and other places to raise awareness about the ever increasing level of noise pollution in our environment. To see photos of our efforts in Vancouver, please click here. A report on INAD 2007 is on page 6 of our Fall 2007 NOISE-letter . Many thanks to all who helped to make this campaign successful.

 

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere."

— Dr. William H. Stewart, former Surgeon General of the United States