I don't mean to troll, but this article's solutions seem utterly unrealistic. Haiti's deforestation issues lie well beyond the scope of alternative technologies and civilian education. The country's deforestation is inextricably intertwined with politically structured poverty. Haitian chop trees because they can afford nothing else. They can afford nothing else because local corruption and international neo-liberalists (notably, the US and the UN)enforce policies that favor the country's wealthy minority rather than its common man. Money pumped into the economy by the international community has not--and would not--reached the poor. Consequently, more fundamental, structural changes are necessary. If you're interested in some quality reading, check out Hallward's "Damning the Flood" or Tracy Kidders' "Mountains beyond Mountains." Otherwise, some google sources on international involvement in Haiti should prove informative.