Accelerating Global Adoption of Sustainable Infrastructure
Our Story
Early in life, ERC’s founder, Carl Walsh, recognized that if humanity continued on its current environmental course, we would soon be wiped off the planet. Determined to avert extinction, Carl embarked on a quest to determine how to garner significant worldwide investments into clean infrastructure. After college, Carl headed to Wall Street to get a deeper understanding of the enormous amounts of capital that would be needed to affect this magnitude of change.
Carl became a world-recognized expert in structuring complex risk-mitigation deals for leading financial institutions handling trillions of dollars. Realizing that risk impeded change, he pioneered a unique approach, creating economic value through self-interest alignment, and cooperation instead of friction-producing competition. This paradigm shift was successful for the world of finance, and later proved to be a win-win-win for business, for people, and for the planet.
Carl founded the Energy Reduction Coalition in 2011, applying his cooperative self-interest alignment risk-mitigation model. Because buildings generate 39% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions and Carl’s neighbor happened to have expertise in LED lighting, Carl chose LED lighting retrofit conversions as ERC’s first, beta-test vertical.
Since then, ERC has delivered substantial advantages to dozens of clients, and our most critical customer, the environment. Today, ERC is expanding domestically, internationally, and further into clean technologies.
"ERC assumes the risk of adopting new clean technologies - to foster systemic cooperation that both accelerates clean infrastructure conversion and delivers individual benefit to all. — Carl Walsh, Founder"
Our Mission
Our mission is to accelerate the conversion to clean, energy-efficient infrastructure and technologies to prevent and reverse climate damage. Together, we can reduce CO2 emissions, improve air and water quality, and grow back a healthy, abundant planet for future generations.
We provide funding for organizations on their journey to becoming climate-friendly leaders. Join us in making changes that benefit not only your organization, but the world we share.