Quiet Ideas

We are collecting ideas for a quieter world. We include several here: for signs describing a quitet town or asking for quiet; ideas for quieter classrooms, quiet motoring/trailering and more.

Municipal Welcome Signs

Suggest that your municipality post a sign at the entrance to town to the effect of:

Our Town is a Quiet Town Please Help Keep it Quiet!

or

Make it Quieter

Signs as reminders to bar patrons to respect neighbours.

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Quiet in the Classroom

Art Class | Baucom Elementary School | Apex, North Carolina

The art teachers at this school know how important Quiet is in helping students stay focused.

Each chair in this room has been fitted with used tennis balls to eliminate scraping noise from chair movement. The result is a quieter classroom more conducive to learning and creative “flow.”

Quiet Motoring

Softride, Inc. provides towing accessories (hitches) that eliminate the clanking sound of typical trailer hitches.

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Mufffler shop reminds us of what mufflers are for

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Noise and Health, Thomas H. Fay, Editor, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, 1991.
This 120-page volume contains a wealth of information and references on the detrimental effects of noise on health, and rightly maintains that unwanted sound of whatever type and decibel level can adversely affect health.

— Noiseletter,
Fall 2002