Erin Craig

Erin Craig leads the Customer Solutions and Innovation group at 3Degrees, where she spearheads the company’s efforts to accelerate deployment of new climate mitigation approaches for corporate, institutional, and utility clients. She also serves as 3Degrees’ Chief Sustainability Officer, leading the company’s efforts to achieve net zero emissions and aiming to create implementation strategies that are tuned to the needs of small-footprint, high-ambition companies. Previously, Erin led 3Degrees’ consulting business, capping more than a decade of advising the world’s largest corporations on climate and energy strategies.

Throughout her career, Erin has cultivated her understanding of the complexities of addressing climate change across divergent sets of needs and stakeholders, often working to push new ideas and initiatives forward. In the early 1990s, Erin worked for Apple, heading up the company’s efforts to rid products and suppliers of environmentally-hazardous substances. Over the next two decades, she held roles as a sustainability and services leader not only at Apple, but also at salesforce.com and Sun Microsystems, working on critical climate-related projects in the areas of alternative-fueled transportation, supply chain decarbonization, and sustainability reporting.

In 2007, she landed at Origin Climate (originally TerraPass), where she led the organization’s expansion into carbon offset project origination and renewable energy services. With the 2017 merger of Origin Climate and 3Degrees, Erin spearheaded 3Degrees’ Energy and Climate Practice, leading the team’s renewable energy and climate work with numerous global corporations, including two landmark renewable energy aggregations serving Apple, Akamai, eBay, Etsy, Samsung, Sprint, and Swiss Re.

Erin was honored to be named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business for 2019.

When the sun is shining, Erin listens to audiobooks while tending vegetables in her Silicon Valley backyard garden. After dark, she likes to relax with Jean-Luc Picard, Han Solo, her husband, and rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order).

B.S. GEOPHYSICS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY; M.S. TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY