LU STOUT: Now all this week, we've been bringing you a series of reports from Haiti by special correspondent Philippe Cousteau. And today, Philippe visits the only community in Haiti that was able to recover from Hurricane Sandy, which struck last year, without help from aid organizations. Now people there have found a green solution to protect their land from extreme weather. Take a look.</s>PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: This is impressive. It's a rare success story in Haiti.</s>HUGH LOCKE, SMALLHOLDER FARMERS ALLIANCE: This cooperative here in Gonaive has gone offline from external funding. And (inaudible) they have enough in the bank from earned income to cover their operation for the next year-and-a-half.</s>COUSTEAU: Today, they've invited me to plant trees with them. And it's all very well organized. Farmer Philippe and I hand out the baby trees. And then we leave in a procession. We're walking to one of the many hillsides. It's an area now prone to floods. The community volunteers to plant these trees and thousands of others in hopes they will one day protect their land from major storms. When you get to the top of the hill, you can sense the excitement. (on camera): Some of the kids already started to take my tree apart. They're clearly very excited about this.</s>LU STOUT: And that was Going Green: Earth, a great series. Now for years, China has talked about going green, but this probably wasn't what they were thinking about. Now what looks like fields of green algae has sprung up along the coast near the northeastern city of Chingdao (ph) in Shandong Province. But that hasn't stopped beachgoers swimming in the slime. It is the seventh year running that this has happened. But according to China's Xinhua News Agency this year the algae growth is the biggest ever recorded. At almost 29,000 square kilometers, it is actually slightly bigger than the country Albania. And that is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next. END
Haitian Farmers Plant Trees To Protect Land