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Plane-free day in Belgium

There is one Sunday every year on which several Belgian major cities ban all the cars from their city centre…

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Flemish weather man to include noise reduction in climate project

Today, many of the schools in Flanders (Belgium, Europe) stimulated their pupils to come to school by bike, rather than…

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Kids toy for smart homes does include noise sensor

Some weeks ago, I attended the GreenEST green building conference in Tallinn (Estonia, Europe). I remember I was a bit…

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Almost soundless plane in the making at MIT

A friend of mine posted this reference to the World Economic Forum (WEF) today on facebook. WEF wrote a great…

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Nature is a fabulous painter

This is the view from my room this morning, just after I woke up. Thank you nature, for this beautiful…

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Headphones get the muse back in … and keep the noise of the gardeners out

So I went home and I was lucky. No gardeners out to there. Since I did not sleep that well…

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Some gardener has ruined the muse that got me going this morning

Yes, again. Gardening machines are very disturbing when doing complex office work. Not for people doing manual labor. Not for…

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Acoustics should start at the very first point in the design

I remember, some weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the acoustics of banquet halls. Modern architecture seems to…

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Inner-city churches are often quiet places in town

I have been downloading my google pictures on my apple environment this afternoon. It was high time to get them…

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Boiler of central heating makes annoying noise … next one will be more silent

Now that I am writing a blog on silence and noise, the boiler at the office is annoying me more…

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