Is Hampton Roads Environmentally-Friendly?

I've been contemplating this question for quite some time now. Being a power networker, I have been in one meeting after the next, and the overall theme of these "green" meetings seems to be – everyone wants to be involved, but to put some action in place and aggressively push this agenda is severely lagging behind. This might sound a little on the severe side, however, coming from the West Coast where actions were turned into words and things like recycling, use of reusable grocery sacks, and the support of good quality mass transit is common sense and common place – hence, my patience for folks that speak the words, but lack of actions has grown very thin. And these “folks” that I’m talking about are government entities and municipalities. Now granted, there are a small handful of cities that have taken going green very seriously such as Charlottesville...but other cities - especially the ones that have signed the U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Act – four of which are in Hampton Roads alone – have done nothing in the two years that they originally signed the Act. Having been involved with a couple “sustainability teams” these entities seem to be more focused on trying to “fudge” numbers to win points on the Virginia Municipal League’s Green Challenge awards program, than developing and implementing programs that will actually make a difference in their communities. I know this may sound a little jaded, but you must understand that the Climate Protection Act was enacted in response to the U.S.' lack of signing the Kyoto Act back in 2001/02; in which the City of Seattle’s Mayor, Greg Nichols, took it upon himself to challenge other mayors around the U.S. to enact and implement a Climate Protection Act that has the same principles of the Kyoto Act, but more on a local/regional level. In response, Mayors who sign this Climate Protection Act attest to their seriousness to uphold the principles of the Kyoto Act and initiate programs that not only help the environment, but better their communities and their constituents’ lives. Nine cities in the Commonwealth signed this act - four of which are in the Hampton Roads area – however, not one of those four have actually started implementing a serious program. My question to them – why?