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Josh has been featured on The Today Show, Dateline NBC, CNN news, The National Geographic Channel, The Discovery Channel, NPR, the Jeff Rense show and the Jim Hightower show and in print in the LA Times, The Independent(UK), The Smithsonian Magazine, Maxim Magazine and Mother Earth News amongst others. To arrange an interview please call 310-452-7731 or email info@joshuatickell.com Download the full press kit To download individual articles and watch T.V. clips, click on the corresponding logo. At last year’s National Biodiesel Conference in Palm Springs, Calif., Josh Tickell received an emotionally charged response from more than 500 biodiesel proponents when he previewed a trailer for the full-length feature documentary he is shooting. Cheers rang out as the three-minute clip concluded—many stood, applauding as Tickell said the film, “Fields of Fuel,”would be the biggest biodiesel commercial the world had ever seen. More... Billed as “controversial,” Josh Tickell’s new book, Biodiesel America, challenges the oil industry’s century-long grip on America’s transportation fuels infrastructure—along with the auto industry and government policies that have sustained it—and offers a new energy roadmap to wean America from fossil fuels forever. More... It was an idyllic August morning in southern Germany when I first saw a farmer poor vegetable oil oil into his tractor. I watched him lift the heavy jug of yellow liquid up, balance the lip of the jug on the tractor's filler hose, then pour the vegetable oil directly into the fuel tank. I wondered if I was dreaming or if he was crazy. Little did I know... More... Prices at the gas pump started rising as Joshua and Kala Tickell crossed the country this summer in their 20-foot motor home, but it didn't faze them. When they stopped for a fill-up it was not at a service station, but at a McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken. More... Josh Tickell grew up amongst the oil refineries of Louisiana where for years he had witnessed family members fall sick from oil-related illness. He began to look for alternatives to petroleum and discovered Biodiesel while working on a farm in Germany. More.. No, it wasn't a joke. That cherry red Datsun Z-car tooling around Athens last week really did run on vegetable oil. But there was nothing special about the Veggie Car itself, according to 27-year old Joshua Tickell, who brought it to town at Ohio University's request. He said anything with a normal diesel engine can run on Biodiesel, a relatively clean-burning fuel refined from soybeans, sunflowers, hemp or other crops. More... There are people who would tell you that the key to saving America from blood-thirsty terrorists is found under a sink full of dishes coated in the remnants of guacamole and refried beans. Josh Tickell is one of those people, and right now he's a slip-on-the-salsa away from bathing in a bucket of used frying oil. More...