Hara News Channel http://www.hara.com/news.html Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:45:00 -0800 Over the past few weeks, I've had a number of meetings with engineers, executives and investors and such, and I keep coming away with the same conclusion. The fastest-growing and arguably most attractive segment in alternative energy and energy efficiency lies in hardware, software and networking equipment. Yep, green IT. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-biggest-green-market-seven-reasons-its-green-it Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:00:00 -0800 In early 2010, after eight years in stealth mode, fuel cell maker Bloom Energy burst into the public eye via a spot on 60 Minutes. Following his interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, Bloom Energy CEO K.R. Sridhar hosted a launch event attended by a coterie of business and political bigwigs that sparked a media frenzy. http://sustainableindustries.com/articles/2010/07/stealth-superstars Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0800 This week, Australian electricity, gas and green energy provider Simply Energy announced that it has selected HaraTM Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) to establish a comprehensive environmental and energy system to drive efficiencies through enhanced energy and resource cost and consumption forecasting. http://www.businessreviewaustralia.com/blogs/editor/internal-business-processes-going-green Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:00 -0800 Hara, a provider of environmental and energy management software, says that Simply Energy, an Australian provider of electricity, gas and green energy, has selected HaraTM Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) to establish a comprehensive environmental and energy system of record, drive efficiencies through enhanced energy and resource cost and consumption forecasting, and automate its regulatory reporting processes. http://www.renewgridmag.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.5544 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:30:00 -0800 Reed Elsevier, a global publisher and information provider, has selected the Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) solution to help the publishing firm drive higher energy and carbon efficiencies by tracking emissions and environmental data across its more than 300 facilities and 32,000 employees. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/07/21/reed-elsevier-selects-hara-to-help-drive-energy-carbon-efficiencies/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:00 -0800 Hara has been in the news recently with several notable wins for its Environmental and Energy Management (Hara EEM) solution. It was cited as an Emerging Leader in the Enterprise Carbon Accounting market by research company Groom Energy Research in a report at the beginning of the year, and recent announcements seem to consolidate its position in these market sectors. http://www.thegreenitreview.com/2010/07/hara-comes-to-uk-with-its-environmental.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:15:00 -0800 The city of Palo Alto has been recognized by a national magazine as a top-100 organization to use innovation and technology to boost business value. http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_15530579 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:15:00 -0800 Palo Alto has become one of the first cities in the nation to track its greenhouse gas emissions and its use of electricity, water and other resources. Using Hara Environmental and Energy Management Software, employees in each of the city's 13 departments can track their emissions and usage in real time and compare that data against their goals. http://www.cio.com/cio100/detail/2019 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:30:00 -0800 US environmental software company Hara is preparing to cross the Atlantic with the announcement next week of its first UK customer and the unveiling of plans to rapidly expand its operations into Europe. http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2266569/hara-targets-europe-generation Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0800 Amit Chatterjee, CEO of Hara Technologies, consults with companies on how to go green and has even advised the Obama administration. Chatterjee explains how Hara Technologies goes about making companies more environmentally friendly. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=1543052851&play=1 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:45:00 -0800 ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA, an organization representing more than 600 local governments working on sustainability initiatives, is promoting the Hara environment management software application to its members. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/enviro-software-maker-hara-allies-with-community-sustainability-organization/12966 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:30:00 -0800 The Bay Area cleantech industry says California’s leadership on climate change and renewable energy is growing jobs and efforts to thwart climate change legislation will only delay the inevitable. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/07/12/story5.html Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:30:00 -0800 Environmental and energy management software provider Hara has been selected to consolidate the US city of Las Vegas' energy and natural resource emissions data into a comprehensive environmental system of record and to track, manage and optimise critical sustainability initiatives. http://www.newenergyworldnetwork.com/renewable-energy-news/by_technology/energy_efficiency/las-vegas-commissions-hara-to-monitor-energy-usage.html Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:00:00 -0800 The City of Las Vegas announced that it would be putting its money on Hara to consolidate the city’s energy and natural resource emissions data. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/07/09/vegas-bets-on-hara-to-manage-sustainability-data/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0800 The glittering city of Las Vegas has become the latest local government to deploy Hara Environmental and Energy Management software to accelerate municipal sustainability initiatives. http://in.reuters.com/article/idIN16384461120100708 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:45:00 -0800 The City of Las Vegas is hoping to win big with energy conservation. Mayor Oscar Goodman Thursday announced the city is teaming up with energy management firm Hara to audit the gaming capital's power usage. http://www.cnbc.com/id/38149988 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:45:00 -0800 Las Vegas' Tom Perrigo wants energy to pay for itself. The city's sustainability officer plans to install one megawatt of solar panels on 17 municipal parking garages this year and invest $3.5 million in LED and induction lighting to replace 20 percent of Sin City's more profligate street lamps. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/can-energy-monitoring-from-hara-save-las-vegas-150000 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:30:00 -0800 We are facing an energy imperative, says Michel Gelobter, the Chief Green Officer of Hara. Quoting President Obama, he said the future of our country is based on energy economy, reducing energy use, and increasing energy efficiency. http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2010/07/07/managing-and-addressing-companys-energy-imperative Wed, 07 Jul 2010 6:00:00 -0800 Hara’s bringing its sustainability software to a city near you. The Redwood City-based software firm has partnered with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability USA, which works with about 600 cities to establish baselines for energy and emissions inventory and forecasting, develops climate action plans and helps cities measure their progress. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/07/05/daily13.html Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0800 Amit Chatterjee, the CEO and founder of Hara, consults with companies all across the country about how to go green. He stopped by Big Think recently to talk about his work on the city of Palo Alto, California, in which he helped make the 60,000 resident municipality more sustainable - and saved them a substantial amount of money in the process. http://bigthink.com/ideas/20717 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:00:00 -0800 Wal-Mart's ambitious plan to green its supply chain has trickled down to Redwood City, Calif.-based environmental and energy management startup Hara. And to hear Hara’s CEO Amit Chatterjee tell it, this is just the beginning. http://cleantech.com/news/5853/wal-mart-effect Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:00:00 -0800 Hasbro, the company behind Mr. Potato Head, G.I. Joe, Transformers and a legion of other popular toys, is rolling out Hara Environmental and Energy Management software to monitor the firm's use of resources and its environmental impact. http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2010/06/24/hasbro-keeps-tabs-energy-use-and-savings-hara-system#ixzz0roFy19DZ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:15:00 -0800 Hasbro has selected the Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) solution to help the company manage and optimize its energy efficiency and natural resource consumption. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/24/hasbro-to-deploy-hara-environmental-software-to-optimize-energy-efficiency-resources Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:45:00 -0800 Hara (it means green in Hindi) keeps landing big customers for its environmental and energy management software. Today's win is Hasbro, the world's number two toy maker -- a profitable company from its sales of Monopoly board games and Nerf weaponry. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/haras-new-customer-and-dominance-in-energy-insight Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:15:00 -0800 Diebold has selected Hara's Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) solution to manage, measure and optimize the company's progress against its stated goals to reduce natural resource consumption and environmental impact. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/10/diebold-taps-hara-to-drive-sustainability-initiatives/ Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:45:00 -0800 ATM maker Diebold Inc. has enlisted environmental and energy management software firm Hara to help chart progress toward environmental goals of increasing efficiency and reducing emissions. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUK276159449020100609 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:30:00 -0800 Environmental software developer Hara has delivered its sixth application release of the past 12 months, with a focus on new reporting features and integration to additional data sources. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/updated-release-for-widely-used-environmental-software/12193 Tue, 11 May 2010 11:00:00 -0800 Redwood City -- Green tech startup Hara Software Inc. was known mainly as being a company endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore when it officially opened for business last June. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/05/10/smallb1.html Mon, 10 May 2010 21:30:00 -0800 Cleantech investors are thinking small. As well they should. After a wild ride - including big bets on ambitious business plans, the 2008 economic collapse, and a massive influx of government support - they are shifting their focus away from capital-intensive verticals like wind and solar to nimbler, less expensive IT, software and energy-efficiency plays. http://green.venturebeat.com/2010/05/10/cleantech-next-generation Mon, 03 May 2010 15:30:00 -0800 When Palo Alto city officials adopted a program to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in late 2007, saving the Earth from potentially catastrophic climate change was the primary priority, not saving money. http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=12813 Mon, 03 May 2010 10:30:00 -0800 When the governor of Ohio called last month, David Hochschild wasn't surprised. A vice president of the Fremont company Solaria, he's used to hearing from officials in other states, usually trying to lure Solaria's growing solar panel business across their borders. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/05/02/2719016/the-conversation-state-in-retreat.html Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:15:00 -0800 Carbon pricing will become an important part of corporate accounting, particularly in markets where energy emissions are regulated or in industries in which organizations might have to disclose risks associated with their carbon footprint. http://earth2tech.com/2010/04/29/greennet-carbon-gives-a-lens-into-inefficiency/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:15:00 -0800 The Journal’s Sudeep Reddy reported this week that while thousands of job seekers have retrained themselves for a promised boom in so-called green jobs, openings for solar-panel installers and wind-turbine technicians are still lagging behind. http://blogs.wsj.com/hire-education/2010/04/27/green-job-market-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees/tab/print/ Sun, 25 Apr 2010 8:00:00 -0800 In the Fox News universe, the world is definitely not warming. Quite the opposite: Climate change is bunk, a spectacular hoax perpetrated on the rest of us by a cabal of corrupt scientists. http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/04/climate-desk-newscorp-goes-carbon-neutral Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:30:00 -0800 This year's crop of Green 15 winners demonstrates how organizations of all sizes are finding innovative ways to use information technology to achieve critical and often complementary environmental and business objectives. http://infoworld.com/d/green-it/the-green-it-stars-2010-454 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:45:00 -0800 Venture capital firms have invested nearly $20 billion into hundreds of green technology startups over the past five years, according to Greentech Media, a San-Francisco based research and media company. http://www.cnbc.com/id/36464185/The_15_Best_Green_Tech_Startups?slide=6 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:30:00 -0800 Tesla Motors has plenty of room to grow in its new, 367,000-square-foot Palo Alto headquarters. The company occupies only 37,000 square feet of the building leased from Stanford University off of Deer Creek Road today. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/04/19/focus1.html?b=1271649600^3204041 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:00:00 -0800 While researching my latest book, Viral Loop, an in-depth look at how companies like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Skype and others grew so big so fast, it occurred to me that each of them was founded when the economy was flat, bad, or worse, in recession. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/10/why-a-bad-economy-is-the-best-time-to-start-a-business Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0800 Electric utilities find themselves on the regulatory front lines of addressing climate change in the U.S. and abroad. http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2010/04/07/utilities-sweet-spot-carbon-management-market Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0800 Nuclear power has been politically radioactive for decades. But the half-life of opposition seems to have faded, especially when weighed against the alternatives. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=525753 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:30:00 -0800 Venture capital firms have invested almost $20 billion into hundreds of greentech startups since 2005. All of these firms are looking to launch a disruptive force into their target markets, scale rapidly and grow quickly. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Top-50-VC-Funded-Greentech-Startups/ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:30:00 -0800 If we're going to find a way to fix our long-term energy woes - whether it's through biofuels made from algae or through the rise of miniature nuclear-power plants, - the solution is likely to come from northern California. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968480,00.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:30:00 -0800 Amit Chatterjee runs Hara, a Silicon Valley software firm backed in part by venture money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Hara, founded in 2008, sees itself as a new kind of software system for large companies. http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/25/energy-cap-trade-technology-ecotech-hara.html?boxes=Homepagechannels Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800 Safeway Inc., which has 32 local stores, has hired Hara Environmental and Energy Management to help the grocery chain reduce energy use and its carbon footprint. http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/02/15/daily57.html