ABSTRACT
In 2006, Waikiki apartment resident Gary Holt and a few companions decided to revive an organization that had been established in 1970 but dissolved in the late 1980s: Citizens against Noise of Hawaii. Their island, they claimed, was close to paradise, if only its dazzling noise pollution—by motorcycles, boom boxes, car alarms, and bars—could be reduced (Vorsino 2006). The organization itself was not exactly an island though. It was one out of dozens of new citizens’ initiatives against noise established in the 1990s and after, in the industrialized world and beyond. Today, many of these have websites with links to fellow activist centers.
