See the latest on Green efforts from electrical contractors.  Find a recap of the DoE funding for SSL research and market development.  Details on how the cradle-to-cradle movement is doing in terms of formalizing itself. That’s just a slice of this week’s GreenRoom. Also: Problems with E-waste and The Smart Grid in Maryland; a recap of energy efficiency newsletters; and a congressional fear that your toaster might become a covert spy through Smart Grid development.

How many electric vehicle charging stations will exist by 2012? What do the mayors of the U.S. want to do in terms of packaging responsibility? Who bought 56% of the world’s carbon offsets in 2009? Answers to these questions and more are in this week’s GreenRoom.

Plus: Green jobs:  Obama says there will be 700,000 of them; find a recap of where some of them are geographically.   A possible relationship between energy efficiency and houses not getting foreclosure notices; a “pseudo-tie;” and in a slightly hypocritical report, you’ll find that the DoE is an energy hog.

In GreenRoom news this week, find out what the Green jobs Academy is.  Also get the latest on jobs from a recap of a June conference “Good Jobs, Green Jobs.”   The government has projected three scenarios for where electricity will come from by 2035.  In other news, find out about a surge in demand for “green power,” wacky wind turbines,  two items on lighting retrofit math, fuel cells, wave power, green houses & much more!

Power management.  Schools that are more efficient.  The Smart Grid.  News on these topics and more await you in this week’s GreenRoom. Learn about LEED-EB, PACE, and the “efficiency failure” of commercial buildings. Get a figurative earful on what should go into a sustainability report. Plus: The role that the DoE thinks renewable energy will play through the year 2035.  Also of interest, the prices of PV modules keep . . . falling.