The “Science of Sustainability”

The idea at left isn’t a bad one, but there are a number of complexities at play here.

Renewable energy in all its forms is rooted in the idea of transforming some kind of energy into electricity.  This cannot be understood without a basic knowledge of physics: the conservation of energy, electricity and magnetism, semiconductors, fluid dynamics, the states of matter, and thermodynamics.

I would incorporate all this into the appropriate sections of first-year 11th grade physics textbooks.

Nuclear energy (fission and fusion) goes in AP physics.

Composting goes in 9th grade biology and/or 10th grade chemistry.