Travel Picks: Top 10 green hotels by Travel + Leisure

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Travelers adopting a green lifestyle at home expect hotels to be environmentally sound, prompting rising numbers of hotels to go green.

Travel + Leisure Magazine joined forces with Conservation International to develop a green-hotel assessment questionnaire about water and energy conservation, eliminating waste, and supporting local habitats and communities to come up with a list of 15 favorite environmentally friendly hotels.

A complete list of hotels with the highest environmental standards appears in the November issue of the magazine that is published by American Express Publishing Corp.

Here is a list of their top 10:

* Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada

The property's water is solar-heated, the bulbs are energy-saving compact fluorescent, and the pool is treated with salt instead of chlorine.

* Sonveva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa, Maldives

This collection of luxury villas has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by next year and achieve carbon neutrality by 2010.

* Tiamo, Bahamas