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ENERGY FREEDOM FIGHTERS - Wake Up America! It's Up To You!
By goHTSN Staff
Apr 27, 2007, 16:42

April 27, 2007 — Worcester, MA — Energy Freedom Fighters, a new, weekly, one-hour show on 830 AM WCRN and at WCRNRadio.com premiers on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29 from 6:00 to 7:00 a.m. (Eastern) plus right before or after Saturday's or Sunday's Red Sox game. Gilles Labelle, Jim Dunn and Steve D'Agostino will call on their fellow Americans and Canadians to learn about and adopt clean, sustainable and affordable energy, with the declaration: "Wake up America! It's up to You! The 50,000-watt signal of 830 AM WCRN's reaches all of New England during the day and half of the U.S. and Canada at night.

Giles, Jim and Steve at WCRN Radio

Gilles Labelle (left) is a businessman, strategist and speaker on the environment, energy and transportation subjects. He is sometimes known as the "CO2 Terminator” because of the quite effective educational talks he gives. Gilles is a chemist and one of the founders of Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, formerly a publicly traded company. He currently manages Westboro Toyota’s Hybrid Center of Massachusetts, the largest hybrid-automobile center east of the Rockies. He is one of the organizers and sponsors of the annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation and Energy Festival in Boston, which in 2006 drew more than 20,000 people over three days, to become the East Coast’s largest event for alternative and future transportation. From 2006 to 2007, Gilles was a regular expert on This New Car, a 26-episode, weekly alternative-transportation and alternative-energy show on WICN/90.5 FM, the NPR affiliate serving Central New England. Since January 2007, he has been a regular weekly guest on The Peter Blute Show on the 50,000-watt 830 AM WCRN in a segment called “Energy Freedom Fighters.”

Jim Dunn (center) is former CEO of the Center for Technology Commercialization in Westboro, MA, which helps transfer innovative and important technology from MIT and other Universities plus NASA to the public sector. He has over 30 years experience in high-technology ventures from startups to Fortune 100 companies such as IBM and Exxon. He has written many papers on alternative-energy topics such as fuel cells, energy storage, and hybrid electric vehicles and has received over 10 patents. Jim has consulted on numerous projects in the battery, hybrid-vehicle, and fuel-cell fields.

In 2005, he was recognized by Fuel Cell Management Magazine as one of the world's "Top 30 Contributors" to the fuel-cell field. He is currently developing the world's first fuel-cell-powered electric airplane, the E-plane, scheduled to make its maiden flight in 2007. He is quite active in the renewable-energy field and has participated since 1996 in the annual Tour De Sol (the world’s first and most important solar- and alternative-fuel vehicle rally), sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. In 2005, he co-chaired the Tour De Sol event, including developing the new Monte Carlo Rally segment. From 2006 to 2007, Jim was a regular expert on This New Car, a 26-episode, weekly alternative-transportation show on WICN/90.5 FM, the NPR affiliate serving Central New England. Since January 2007, he has been a regular weekly guest on The Peter Blute Show on the 50,000-watt 830 AM WCRN in a segment called “Energy Freedom Fighters.”

Steve D'Agostino (right) is principal of Best Rate Of Climb, a marketing and public-relations consultancy. He has more than 30 years of journalism and management experience in newspapers, radio and TV. In addition, he led the "message & media" team for the 2006 AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival in Boston, which drew more than 20,000 people over three days, to become the East Coast’s largest event for alternative and future transportation, and included as media sponsors The Boston Globe, WBZ Newsradio 1030 and New England Cable News, to mention just a few. He is currently leading the “message & media” team for the 2007 AltWheels Festival, to be held in late September in Boston.

As executive editor of Worcester Business Journal from 1992-2004, he led the regional business-to-business publication to 16 national journalism awards, including five for first place, in competition with similar publications in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. From 2006 to 2007, Steve hosted This New Car, a 26-episode, weekly alternative-transportation and alternative-energy show on WICN/90.5 FM, the NPR affiliate serving Central New England. Since January 2007, he has been a regular weekly guest on The Peter Blute Show on the 50,000-watt 830 AM WCRN in a segment called “Energy Freedom Fighters.”