This edition of the QC newsletter shares recent progress in reducing harmful noise through new grants, educational videos, and a Quiet Hours™ restaurant pilot; announces QC’s Candid Platinum rating and new T‑shirts; highlights a grassroots success making a retirement community dining room quieter, and more.

This Quiet Communities newsletter celebrates LAUSD’s landmark move to fossil fuel‑free, AGZA Green Zone–certified landscaping across more than 800 campuses, creating quieter, cleaner school environments and a national model. It also highlights upcoming events for International Noise Awareness Day, a film screening and author talk on noise, new resources like Ear Peace Foundation’s children’s book on hearing protection and aviation noise symposium recordings, survey results showing gas-powered leaf blowers as a top concern, member programming on noise and heart health, and recent advocacy and media work on airport and gun range noise.

The BBC article highlights the detrimental effects of traffic noise on children's cognitive development and health. Studies have shown that excessive noise exposure can impair learning, memory, and attention in children, particularly in schools near busy roads or subways.