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Have you seen the Age of Stupid? What did you think?

AOS is a new movie premiering last week. It stars Pete Postlewaite as the narrator & then has the real life stories of about 6-8 people: A french mountaineer in Mont Blanc, a wind engineer in the UK, 2 Iraqi children, a medical student in Nigeria, an oil worker from New Orleans, & an Indian business man setting up the 1st cheap airline. Pete is in 2065 living in an archive of civilisation looking back to 2008 to see what were we thinking - we knew climate change was happening yet did very little to act. http://www.ageofstupid.net/

The film gives lots of room for thought, however, the stories of action, inspiration and the possible for successfully tackling climate change are left undiscussed, which I found frustrating. There is an AOS campaign running outside the film, but what I really want to see is storytelling of climate solutions within a film.

Best, Catheirne

We are doing some work to improve imeasure & would love to hear from our imeasurers about what improvements are most wanted. We don't have much funding - but are aiming to improve the results page - especially the graphs and tables to make the results clearer and more digestible. The glitch in the carbon clubs will be fixed as well as we add a few more features to the carbon clubs so users get more than just a ranking for each of the clubs they are members. Finally, we are doing some much need housekeeping to improve the input of data so people don't run into problems when their meter changes or switches.
Please to post your thoughts on imeasure.

Thank you, Catherine

Hi imeasurers,

A number of people have emailed at bit confused about entering their weekly readings if after the "weekending date" listed. The weekending date is always the sunday, but because sundays are 24 hrs long the box for entering readings doesn't appear until 12:01 am on the Monday.

We offer the option of specifying the number of days after the week ending date you have taken your readings in order to calculate the last 7 days' (i.e. the last week) energy use. For example, if you took a reading on a monday one week and then your next reading on the following thursday that would be 11 days difference. So if you specified that the second reading was taken 4 days late then imeasure calculates the daily energy use and multiplies by 7 to estimate how much energy you used over 7 days. However, if you always take your readings on a tuesday there is always 7 days between readings so no need to specify it is late.

We took the approach of saying when your next reading was due in hopes it would help the habit of meter reading. However, please don't feel you have to read you meter each week if that is not convenient or the way you want to use imeasure. imeasure will still calculate your energy use between readings.

I hope this clarifies a bit more how imeasure works. We are developing a new version of imeasure in which it will be possible to specify the date you have taken your readings.

Best, Catherine