Expecting New Tax, Hara Prepares Software Package to Track Carbon

If Congress passes legislation that puts a price on carbon emissions, companies will need to track and report the waste from their operations.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, is betting that such a cap-and-trade law or carbon tax will open the door for a new kind of software company.

Since 2007, it has been quietly incubating Hara http://hara.com/ , a start-up that on Monday will start selling software to help businesses measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/start-ups/01carbon.html?_r=1&ref=science