Josh Tickell’s work has taken him from the grease dumpsters of Florida and the farms of the Australian Outback to the Laboratories of the Department of Energy and the oil refineries of the Gulf Coast.

Tickell has rapidly become one of the nation’s leading experts on alternative fuels. His film FUEL won the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary. His first book, From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank - The Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel, is a bestseller and has been instrumental in jump-starting the biodiesel industry.

Having grown up in the polluted bayous of South Louisiana, Tickell has been extensively involved in hurricane disaster relief efforts. His nonprofit organization was selected by President Bill Clinton as a part of the Global Initiative on Climate Change. He currently lives in Venice Beach, California, where he and his fiance drive a 2002 Volkswagen Golf TDI on 100% non-food based biodiesel.