Adapt: Climate Change and the Built Environment

About Adapt: Climate Change and the Built Environment

Hosts Mónika Serrano and Jessica Mederson interview people across the private and public sectors to discuss adapting the built environment to a changing climate. While climate mitigation and sustainability get most of the attention and financial investments, climate resiliency and adaptation are just as crucial because we are already experiencing the impacts of changes to our climate. Ensuring that we are adapting to extreme weather and evolving climate patterns requires us to reexamine what it takes to make our buildings, infrastructure, and communities safe and resilient both now and in the future, so that people, buildings, and businesses can continue to thrive for years and decades to come.

Publisher

Monika Serrano; Jessica Mederson

Category

business · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Dec 2023

Latest episode

27 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

3 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Bridging the Gap: Finding Funds to Build (and Build Back) Better

   Abby Ross of The Resiliency Company discusses funding gaps that prevent communities from recovering from natural disasters and shares ways to mobilize funding for resilience, in an interview with Monika and Jessica.

2. 

   13 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Resilient Waterfronts: Designing for the Future

   Dena Prastos, CEO of Indigo River Studios, explores resilient waterfront design with hosts Monika and Jessica, focusing on infrastructure and climate adaptation strategies in New York City and beyond in this interview.

3. 

   30 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT

   The Great River: Lessons Learned from the Mississippi River

   Writer Boyce Upholt discusses his book, *The Great River*, with hosts Monika and Jessica, examining the history of engineering efforts to control the Mississippi River and the resulting consequences in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Bridging the Gap: Finding Funds to Build (and Build Back) Better

Published 27 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] All of these challenges are starting to manifest itself in communities differently. And that's relatively new in the past, you know, 10 to 20 years and it's only going to get worse. So one, this isn't something we've had to do before. And I think you look at, you know, the insurance market as a great signal of how this risk is increasing. You know, insurance and weather models were relatively predictable for a while. And now they're not. We're seeing that start to get priced in to, you know, different things. So that's kind of one thing at the challenge is we haven't had to build this muscle yet as a society. […]

Who has been a guest on Adapt: Climate Change and the Built Environment

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• Abby Ross
• Dena Prastos
• Boyce Upholt
• Chuck Chaitovitz
• Nicole DeNamur

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

67

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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