Josh Tickell's major motion picture, the documentary, FUEL has been held over for a 2nd week in Portland where the film made its Theatrical Debut! 

This Friday, FUEL has it's Opening Nights in Austin, Texas and Seattle, Washington.

For more information see www.thefuelfilm.com

Here's what Sundance Film Festival wrote about FUEL:

"Most Americans know we've got a problem: an addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the nation's long-term stability. But few are informed or empowered enough to do much about it."

"Enter Josh Tickell, an expert young activist who, driven by his own emotionally charged motives, shuttles us on a revelatory, whirlwind journey to unravel this addiction—from its historical origins to political constructs that support it, to alternatives available now and the steps we can take to change things."

"Tickell tracks the rising domination of the petrochemical industry—from Rockefeller's strategy to halt ethanol use in Ford's first cars to the mysterious death of Rudolph Diesel at the height of his biodiesel engine's popularization, to our government's choice to declare war after 9/11, rather than wean the country from fossil fuel...."

"Never minimizing the complexities of ending oil dependence, Tickell uncovers a hopeful reality pointing toward a decentralized, sustainable energy infrastructure..."

"Sweeping and exhilarating, Tickell's passionate film goes beyond great storytelling; it rings out like a bell that stirs consciousness and makes individual action suddenly seem consequential."

Josh Tickell, a leading expert on alternative fuels, grew up in Louisiana, where members of his family suffered from diseases linked to pollution from oil refineries. ... He has been working on Fuel for 10 years.

Tickell also authored a controversial companion book, Biodiesel America—How to Achieve Energy Security, Free America from Middle-East Oil Dependence, and Make Money Growing Fuel. --
© Sundance Film Festival
Country: United States   
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Music: Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson, Neil Young ....
Website: http://www.thefuelfilm.com

 

Greetings!

Now that America has chosen our next president, the real work of reinvigorating our great nation begins.  That's why I am thrilled to share with you that FUEL, the critically acclaimed Sundance award-winning documentary on green energy, opens in theaters this month!

The film, Fuel informs people about green energy solutions that exist today and motivates viewers to take action now. By achieving our goal of 15 million Americans seeing FUEL by the end of 2009, we can generate the nation-wide support necessary to end our addiction to oil.

FUEL THEATRICAL OPENINGS
Save the Date!  FUEL is opening in theaters in Portland, Seattle, Austin and Bend!!!

November 14 - Portland, OR @ Portland Fox Tower Stadium
November 21 - Seattle, WA @ Varsity 3
November 21 - Austin, TX @ Regal Arbor Cinemas at Great Hills
December 5 - Bend, OR @ Regal Pilot Butte 6

Click here for more info: http://thefuelfilm.com/theaters

Here is how you can help:

WRITE A FUEL REVIEW
If you've  seen the film, FUEL, share your opinions. With more reviews submitted, the more the film will be ranked and publicized. Please submit your review of FUEL on imdb.com (e-mail Jimguy@thefuelfilm.com for instructions).

BE PART OF FUEL STREET TEAMS IN PORTLAND, SEATTLE, AUSTIN AND BEND
If you live in Portland, Seattle, Austin or Bend and want to help promote FUEL, please email fuelstreetteam@gmail.com with your contact information including your e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number.

CALL YOUR FAVORITE THEATER AND REQUEST THAT THEY SHOW FUEL
Write or call your local theater's manager or business office and let them know you would like to have FUEL shown in their theater. The film's distributor is Intention Media and can be reached at: 360-748-3973 or go to http://thefuelfilm.com/demand-it

GET FUEL TEXT UPDATES
Our new "text campaign" allows you to get most important updates about FUEL sent straight to your phone. Simply text "follow fuel" to 87995

PIMP THE FUEL BUS
We recently bought a school bus and are converting it into an educational tool to so that people can learn about conservation and alternative energy. We're looking for volunteers who can weld, do woodworking, work with solar or do electrical work. We're also looking for a place to store and work on the bus in Venice, CA. Please email jon@thefuelfilm.com to get involved.

READ THE FUEL BLOG
Josh Tickell blogs almost everyday on the front page of our website:
http://thefuelfilm.com

KEEP IN TOUCH AND SHARE WITH THE FUEL COMMUNITY
FUEL now has a Facebook group where you can interact with other people supporting the mission of FUEL, help us spread the word about FUEL amongst your friends and family, and submit a film review on the FUEL.
FACEBOOK GROUP

SUPPORT FUEL BY ATTENDING UPCOMING FILM FESTIVALS

11/14/2008 MONTREAL, CANADA
FUEL will screen November 14th at 7:30PM EST at RIDM Film Festival in Montreal. The venue location is yet to be determined.

11/16/2008 ST. LOUIS, MO
FUEL will screen November 16th at 7:00PM at St. Louis International Film Festival. Location: Tivoli Theatre 1.

11/20/2008 - 11/27/2008 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
FUEL will screen November 20, 25, and 27th at Stockholm International Film Festival. Times and locations are yet to be determined.

The film festival calendar is updated often. Please following link for more details: http://thefuelfilm.com/calendar/2008-11

The film "FUEL," has won 7 major awards including the coveted Sundance Film Festival Audience Choice Best Documentary Award.  "Fuel" begins its theatrical release within weeks, opening at Portland, Seattle, Bend and Austin theaters.  This is one film that truly can change the world.

"Change your fuel, change the world" is the overarching message of "FUEL."  And people around the country and the world are raving about this movie.  For example, Jim Guy wrote:

At its recent Hollywood Premiere, the film "Fuel" brought the audience to its feet in the longest standing ovation of all its many ovations that it received at every film festival - including each of the 10 screenings at Sundance Film Festival.

This film shows the world what a small percentage of us have known for several years now: Biodiesel is available, works in any diesel vehicle, is made in America, and is better for the environment than petroleum fuels. It does not stop with biodiesel but instead, presents many sustainable energy solutions available right now for individual and planetary health, security and economic prosperity.

"Fuel" goes from Josh Tickell's time on a farm in Germany where he learned that diesel fuel can be made from vegetable and animal products, to his journey across America in the Veggie Van, to the widespread production of biodiesel from used fryer oil, to the present where new biodiesel is being made from algae and new food stocks and is available from ordinary pumps at filling stations.

The film answers the question on everyone's mind these days: Is biodiesel going to make food expensive and starve the poor? The answer is emphatically "No." Biodiesel is made from oils, while the solids from the feed stock go on to be food for people and animals. The film does not suggest that biodiesel will supply all our food and energy needs.  By viewing "Fuel, we learn the value of wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean, domestic energy sources filling the missing pieces of the puzzle that will free us from our dependence on oil.

“My husband and I started to talk about climate change, and oil prices were going up,” Ms. Astyk said. “The other factor was a justice issue. There was a great disparity between the resources used by the third world and by us, so we decided we had to cut back.”

Completely Unplugged, Fully Green
Jonathan Alcorn for The New York Times
MINDING HIS WASTE David Chameides is collecting all the trash he generates in a year.

By JOANNE KAUFMAN
Published: October 17, 2008
SIMON WOODS, who is 6, would like to play on a baseball team. His mother, Sharon Astyk, is sympathetic, but is also heavily committed to shrinking her family’s carbon footprint. “We haven’t been able to find a league that doesn’t involve a long drive,” she said. “I say that it isn’t good for the planet, so we play catch in the yard.”

That is one way that Ms. Astyk, a mother of four, expresses her concern for the environment. She has unplugged the family refrigerator, using it as an icebox during warmer months by putting in frozen jugs of water as the coolant (in colder weather, she stores milk and butter outdoors). Her farmhouse in Knox, N.Y., has a homemade composting toilet and gets its heat from a wood stove; the average indoor winter temperature is 52 degrees.

Many people who can comfortably use “carbon footprint,” “global warming” and “energy offset” in a sentence will toss a bottle or can into a blue recycling bin and call it a day. Those who are somewhat more committed may swap incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescents, rely on cloth shopping bags and turn to mass transit.

Then there are people like Ms. Astyk, 36, a writer and a farmer who is trying...  to whittle her family’s energy use to 10 percent of the national average. She and her husband, Eric Woods, a college professor, grow virtually all their own produce, raise chickens and turkeys, and spend only $1,000 a year in consumer goods, most of which they buy used. They air-dry their clothes...

They began this regimen in 2002. “My husband and I started to talk about climate change, and oil prices were going up,” Ms. Astyk said. “The other factor was a justice issue. There was a great disparity between the resources used by the third world and by us, so we decided we had to cut back.” Some people may view Ms. Astyk and her family as role models, pioneers who will lead us to a cleaner earth.

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Ms. Astyk has heard such talk but says her neighbors’ attitudes have softened as energy prices have risen. “People have moved gradually from ‘Sharon is a fruitcake’ to ‘Sharon is a fruitcake who might make some sense,’ ” she said.

Jay Matsueda, who might also answer to the name energy anorexic, or carborexic, has neither heat nor air-conditioning in his condominium in Culver City, Calif.

He runs his car, a 1983 Mercedes SD Turbo, on waste oil from a Los Angeles restaurant. When he gives a gift, it is usually an organic cookbook, a copy of Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” or reusable bamboo flatware. “That way, people don’t have to accept plastic cutlery at takeout places,” said Mr. Matsueda, 35, who wrote in an e-mail message that he occasionally relieves himself on his lawn in order to “save a flush.”

... “People will say, ‘Jay’s doing it, and he’s normal.’ ”

How normal? Mr. Matsueda lives the sort of life that the public relations firm Porter Novelli recently called “dark green.”

The company conducted a poll of 12,000 people, examining their commitment to various environmental practices — reducing energy use at home, buying energy-efficient appliances, boycotting companies with bad environmental records. Seven percent earned the top designation, dark green.

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David Chameides, a cameraman in Los Angeles ...  keeping a blog that describes his detritus. A sample entry ...  includes “1 bag of hair from haircut — put out on lawn for birds,” “1 plastic wrapper from ice cream — garbage” and “2 aluminum tuna cans — recycle.”

For full article, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/fashion/19greenorexia.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=style

Posted by Deborah Dupre, Third Planet Energy
For further peace and Justice, see "Fuel," the multi-award winning environmental film of 2008.