By Yao A. Foli The community’s point of view of understanding and defining noise pollution could be a pathway to a cultural and social noise pollution policy making. My name is Yao Foli, I am from Ghana. I am a community researcher and advisor with a national group of researchers […]
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By Bobby Wilson (Metro Atlanta Urban Farm) Could COVID-19 and the impending lockdown threaten your access to fresh vegetables? If you think so, then the time may be right for families across this great nation to experience the joy and excitement of planning and planting a backyard garden? A backyard garden can serve […]
By Bobby Wilson (Metro Atlanta Urban Farm) Metro Atlanta Urban Farm and other CoPI’s across the US have been contemplating ways to adjust our course to accommodate the needs of the country while continuing to “be the change” that we “want to see” in the lives of people that we […]
By Yao A. Foli The definition, story, memory, and understanding of noise by the community could be the guideline to community engagement, education, and awareness about noise pollution. The experience and the memories of the stories at noise-exposed workplaces by community members provide detail about the unawareness and the awareness […]
Noisy transportation and your health When you imagine a busy intersection what do you hear? Many times, this image is accompanied by the loud sounds of tires, car horns, and rumbling trucks. Now imagine adding the sound of a train or subway running next to the intersection and an airplane […]
By Teresa Moore WorldBeat Cultural Center is part of a three-year research project led by community-based organizations in collaboration with Cornell Lab of Ornithology and funded by the National Science Foundation. San Diego’s WorldBeat Center is one of four selected sites around the country which are researching negative effects of […]
What happens when STEM research and programming is led directly and equitably by community leaders? The NOISE Pollution Project! Please check out, share, and VOTE for our video https://stemforall2020.videohall.com/p/1891 where a team of Community Researchers representing communities historically excluded from the sciences, in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, share a different perspective and approach for doing […]
Metro Atlanta Urban Farms have brought Noise Pollution and Citizen Science to their community youth by working with a group of Junior Community Science Collaborators. Together they have been working on education, awareness, and research on Noise Pollution. In our Full project meeting in April, the Junior CSCs brought us an amazing presentation on the […]
Project Advisor Mathias Basner shared the link to the news article “Conifer is top tree in urban sound absorption test”: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52139333 The article, published on BBC News by Environment reporter Mark Kinver, reports the findings of a group of scientists about the role of trees in mitigating urban noise pollution. […]
By Adam Spaulding-Astudillo What are the best ways for community leaders to educate the public about noise pollution? For answers to this question, ask Alexia, Cecilia, and Maria from Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES)! During our recent in-person meeting, they shared a set of activities that they have been […]
CLUES has been hard at work bringing awareness of noise pollution into their community! Tanya and the Community Science Collaborators at this organization created activities for the Science Museum’s Youth Science Day. Using interactive activities the CLUES team was able to educate and engage the youth in their community about […]
Our community partners at CLUES have come up with a great activity that is useful for educating, engaging, and creating awareness about noise pollution. Their noise activity allows participants to engage in different tasks while listening to different types of sounds and noises. Through this interactive demonstration, participants are able […]