Josh Tickell and Biodiesel!
I MET JOSH TICKELL YESTERDAY! Okay, I’m a huge nerdbag, but this is the man whose book “From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank” singlehandedly inspired me to convert to biodiesel (it took me a year to do it after I read it, but it really was From the Fryer… that convinced me)– and I know that I’m not the only one whose life has been changed by his work. The whole world is going to know Josh Tickell as soon as his feature film Fields of Fuel debuts at Sundance. I was privileged enough to attend a screening of this work at AFI in Los Angeles yesterday, and there is not much to be said — just RUN to see it, as soon as it makes wide release. The best part was that I actually walked up to him at the end and got the satisfaction of thanking him for helping me accomplish the best thing I’ve ever done for myself and the world (sentimental, but true). He was very gracious. If you know Josh’s work and support his message, please consider checking out the Fields of Fuel website, and making a donation to help get the film to the masses. This is the type of media that can really change the way so many different people think. We know that biodiesel is not the only option — and it’s not even be the best — in terms of renewable fuels, but awareness and use of it certainly represents, as Josh says in the film, a a new way of relating to fuel in general. I’d also like to include a link to Josh’s blog here. Keep in mind that, a la the format of Michael Moore, the information is filtered through Josh himself — so while it is documentarian in style, it is also a film in which the maker is heard and seen and therefore…it makes biodiesel personal. Okay, enough filmic psychobabble. I’ll let y’all check it out for yourselves. And I highly recommend that you do.
–Refined gOil
