Richard C. Honour – The Precautionary Group

Richard C. Honour, PhD, is a Founder and Principal of Save Our Soil (SOS) and The Precautionary Group (TPG), both of which are environmental activist organizations dedicated to the Abolition of Land-Disposed Toxic Sewage Sludge to preserve our air, food, soil and water, and to protect human and environmental health. SOS and TPG hold that nearly all chronic diseases are caused by the cumulative effects of long-term exposure to low levels of environmental contaminants and pollutants.

Dr. Honour is a graduate of the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA. His professional work focuses on Environmental Toxicology, Infectious Diseases and Cancer. Dr. Honour works to abolish the Land Disposal of Toxic Sewage Sludge from Washington State’s Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) in rangelands, farmlands and forests that drain to Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, and which adversely impact the greater Salish Sea.

Dr. Honour is engaged at present in investigating newly-identified volatile gasses generated and released to the environment by Land-Disposed Toxic Sewage Sludge, which is proving to be a major contributing source of volatile GreenHouse Gasses as the Sewage Sludge Volatilome.
Dr. Honour was Field Research Microbiologist and Environmental Monitor in Antarctica with the National Science Foundation’s US Antarctic Research Program, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and he was Consultant to the US Department of Energy as Environmental Monitor on Tribal lands. For ten years he managed a national program of pediatric cancer clinical trials research at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, as sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, NIH.

Dr. Honour was President & CEO of several biotechnology firms dedicated to the discovery and development of new antimicrobial agents for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections. His current entrepreneurial work is dedicated to the discovery and development of new antimicrobial and anti-cancer agents from Toxic Sewage Sludge and other toxic wastes as new Product Candidates targeted for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections and cancer.

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Workshop(s)

Workshop 1: The Adverse Effects of Land-Disposed Toxic Sewage Sludge

This was a workshop session that included a series of short opening (20 minutes each) presentations by investigators and activists who are concerned directly with the environmental challenges associated with the Land-Disposal of Toxic Sewage Sludge. The presentations were followed by a guided open forum discussion of key associated issues, such as: i. Waste-To-Energy Alternatives, ii. Results of recent analyses of sewage sludge for toxic chemicals, iii. Adverse health effects of land-disposed sludge, iv. The impact of land-disposed sludge on the soil microbiome, and, v. Contributions of the sewage sludge volatilome to the Climate Change and GHG Emissions.