He opened the doors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel-America's first environmental hotel-in 2006. It was the first green hotel in the United States to be awarded the LEED Gold Certificate by the US Green Building Council (" LEED "stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Seven months after it opened, the hotel started turning a profit, thereby striking the perfect balance between idealism and reality.
他在 2006 年推出全美首座環保旅館──蓋亞那霸谷旅館，被美國綠建築委員會評選為全球第一個「環保節能設計領先」（LEED）金質認證建築，更於啟用 7 個月後開始轉虧為盈，理想與現實都能兼顧。