About me:

Sean Kelly @ Quinlan School of Business 

My name is Sean Kelly, currently I am a sophomore at Loyola University Chicago studying Environmental Science and Accounting. I have been interested in the natural environment since my junior year of high school, when I had the opportunity to attend the St. Ignatius Conference on EnvironmentalSustainability. More recently, I have been able to draw connections between the flow of natural resources in the economy and the environment. I have learned that in order to provide a cleaner environment for a cheaper cost to society; it is instrumental to understand both the nature of how the environment functions as well as the nature of business. However, much of the environmental issues that society deals with today are either local, regional (air pollution), or global (climate change). 
Because local, and regional environmental issues are a major problem, they must be looked at individually, and will require a whole lot of scientific research and evidence in order to be most cost effective. Once green initiatives have been proven to be cost effective through various benefit-cost analyses, it will be much easier to convince business owners and investors to buy into. My goal is make green technology as beneficial as possible for consumers, at the cheapest price.

The Economy and the Eco-sphere
-Andrew Fanning. Economics, Growth and Energy in the Green Economy.

This flow chart draws the connection between the economy and the natural environment. Households demand natural resources and materials from the environment, which are provided by business owners. Basically businesses and households take natural resources from the environment, and they are returned back to the environment in the form of pollution and wastes materials. This means that environmental pollution is an economic problem, and therefore there must be an economic solution to this problem. My goal is to figure out this solution.