Our Team

Linda Fritz

Penn State University, Electrical Engineering

10 years automotive industry

Entrepreneur, Inventor, Designer

Owner of Sun Sugar Farms, 

 Linda Fritz hates waste......waste of products, people, or time. 

Creator of the CRESBI® crate system and the 

new Sustainable Produce Container

 which replaces plastic produce clamshells, 

 Linda grows fresh edamame and 

sun sugar cherry tomatoes for the Cincinnati Kroger market. 

Eric Schwartz

Generalist

Current Facilitator of Lynx Engineering

Founder Ventura Safe Energy Council 

Founder TOA Radio international 

Founder Thomas Paine Farms:

 first farm in North America to be certified as "Sustainable"

4 decades in energy, construction, agriculture and design

Phil White, Mechanical Engineer

Michigan State University and UCLA

Since 1976: Owner of AE Group Mechanical Engineers Inc.,

completing hundreds of projects involving energy conservation, solar, 

climate mitigation and the environment

Ventura County Planning Commission

Ojai Climate Emergency Mobilization Committee

Former Director, Ventura Co. Air Pollution Control District

Worked on Apollo Saturn 5 and Space Shuttle rocket engines

Muscle Car aficionado, who now drives a Chevy Bolt EV

 Channel Islands Restoration - and-

Ventura Botanical Gardens Boards of Directors 

Jon Rueb

Master of Electricity

Canadian by culture 

Perfectionist in profession

Deep connection to the Arctic,

Yukon wilderness, and raptors 

Electrical Contractor:

Northern Lights Inc.

Jay Kimball

Electrical Engineer

Grid Consultant OPALCO

IOOF  Orcas Island, WA

Presenter Extraordinaire