Marvin Baker, 34, launched The Green Christmas Appeal (www.greenchristmasappeal.org) on 6th October with the plan to plant 10,000 trees and supply computers to 5,000 African children before Christmas.
Marvin is one of the Final 8 contestants involved in Alibabas Global Start-up Challenge, a competition to identify and nurture UK entrepreneurial talent. The 8 competitors have been given a £1,000 business start-up grant and have until the end of January to create a sustainable business model.
Since being selected Marvin has been working night and day to develop his environmentally friendly business into a unique website giving visitors an opportunity to offset personal carbon emissions, dedicate trees to loved ones and even change to green energy.
Marvin created partnership with Ecotricity, the UKs only 100% renewable energy supplier, to plant a tree every time someone switches to renewable energy through the Green Christmas Appeal web site. Ecotricity have a Price promise to match the Big 6 suppliers for price, giving people a real choice of Green energy of burning fossil fuels.
Marvin said “In the past switching to renewable energy meant a massive price increase. Ecotrcity are now charging the same as the main UK energy suppliers which is why I decided that if visitor to my site decide to switch to green energy I would use the commission to plant a tree”.
Marvin added that “Green Christmas Appeal is committed to ethical as well as green business practices, so we are pledging to supply computer equipment to 50 African children for every 100 trees it plants through the largest and most experienced ICT Development provider, Computer Aid.”
The winner of the Global Start-up Challenge will win a further £10k business grant to develop even further. Marvin has said that if he wins “It will guarantee that I will be able to plant a further 1600 trees, plus supply computer equipment to 800 children in the third world”. To vote for him please visit www.globalstartupchallenge.co.uk/marvin.php
Kind Regards
Marvin Baker
Green Christmas Appeal
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