Book Review

• Stillness: Daily Gifts of Solitude   by Richard Mahler
• Unclutter Your Life:Transforming Your Physical, Mental and Emotional Space, by Katherine Gibson

Editorials

• Acoustic Responsibility: A Concept Whose Time Has Come
• Cosmic Bowling, the White Flash, and the Death of Tranquillity
• For Now, the Issue Is Awareness
• Music: The New Addiction

News Releases

• Anti-Noise Group Wants Establishments to Pipe Down -- announcing our campaign against program audio in public places.

Technical Articles

• How Much Noise Is Too Much Noise? -- by Federico Miyara of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)
• The Physics, Physiology, and Psychology of Noise -- this informative talk by member Jeremy Tatum also expresses our reservations about decibel-based municipal noise laws

World News and Opinion

• Sound Bites -- gleanings from the world press.
• Please Turn Off the Music -- piped music is more than an annoyance to the hearing impaired.
• Pardon? Speak Up! I've Just Been to the Movies -- no, you aren't imagining that movies have gotten painfully loud
• The Lost Resource...or..."Quiet Please" -- what happens when bad manners and modern technology meet
• Leaf-Blower Terrorism -- a powerful essay by John Miller
• Debris Blowers in Landscape Maintenance: Costs, Benefits, and Common Good -- A position paper on debris blowers (aka "leaf blowers"} by Eco-Magic of Palo Alto, Calif. (USA)
• Piped Music: An Expensive Mistake -- a German study suggests that compulsory listening doesn't make people better consumers
• Prospect Lake Ban on Jet Skis Raises the Stakes in the Noise Battle -- how Big Industry is fighting to appropriate the soundscape.
• Leaf-Blowers and the GDP by Michael Valpy of the Globe and Mail.
• Is There Sound Pollution on the Sound? -- external link to an article from a San Juan County newspaper about the various acoustical atrocities being perpetrated in the "silent world" of our coastal waters.