Explore the fast-moving adaptech landscape through short, insightful interviews with early-stage adaptation technology founders. Essential listening for all entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners in climate adaptation.
The Adapt Interview Series #10: Patrick Racine (ChillSkyn)
Ordinary white paint reflects about 75% of the sun's energy. ChillSkyn's coating claims to reflect up to 97.5%, meaning it absorbs just one-tenth as much heat. It also sheds more heat than it absorbs, which keeps sun-exposed surfaces about 6°C below th...
23 Sept 2026
The Adapt Interview Series #9: Tiffany Yeh (Eztia)
Extreme heat already affects more than 80% of the world's population. Each year it kills around 500,000 people and puts tens of millions of outdoor workers at risk. Air conditioning won't reach most of the people exposed, so what cools a construction w...
9 Sept 2026
The Adapt Interview Series #8: Harish Pesala (SmartResilience)
An 80-page climate risk report won't stop a flood. Companies spend six figures commissioning them, and almost none of that budget survives to actually get anything built. Harish Pesala ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/harishpesala/ ), founder of SmartResi...
12 Aug 2026
The Adapt Interview Series #7: Tim Dudas (Plain Site)
A property owner may spend real money hardening a site against flood risk, with the hopes of impressing their insurer and seeing their premiums reduced.But then renewal season comes around, and nothing changes — the flood-proofing is genuine, but it's ...
29 Jul 2026
The Adapt Interview Series #6: Elizabeth Foughty (Orbital Sentry)
Most satellite data arrives as a snapshot — a single image, taken in an instant, and updated maybe every 30 minutes, if you're lucky. Elizabeth Foughty ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethfoughty/ ) wants to replace the snapshot with a livestream. S...
15 Jul 2026
The Adapt Interview Series #5: Tripp Wall (Pantheon Regeneration)
Restoring degraded wetlands and peatlands unlocks a mind-boggling array of climate resilience benefits.These systems mitigate saltwater intrusion, buffer coastal land from sea level rise, and reopen freshwater aquifers that communities and ecosystems d...
1 Jul 2026
The Adapt Interview Series #4 Charlie Bilsland (Temperate)
Here's a fact that should stop you in your tracks: there is no such thing as cooling. Every air conditioner, every refrigerator, every cooling system ever built doesn't actually 'cool' anything — it just moves heat from one place to another. The refrig...
17 Jun 2026
Christy Swann (RCOAST)
Twenty-two thousand miles of coastline are actively eroding right now — a number projected to nearly triple, to 60,000 miles, in the years ahead. In the US alone, coastal counties generate $9.5 trillion in economic activity, and close to a billion peop...
3 Jun 2026
David Adler (Groundswell)
Climate risk has long been viewed as a threat to physical assets and business revenues. In this episode, we sit down with David Adler ( http:// ), co-founder of Groundswell ( https://www.groundswell.earth/ ), to make the case for a different framing en...
20 May 2026
Dr Iain Willis (Tempest Risk)
Most companies know climate risk is coming for their assets. Far fewer know how to measure it — or what it would cost to do something about it. That's the gap that Iain Willis at Tempest Risk is working to close. Tempest Risk ( http:// ) is a UK-based ...
19 May 2026
Adapt Interview Series: Preview
The Adapt Interview Series is a collaboration between Climate Proof and The Adapt newsletter platforming those adaptech founders working to strengthen our planet's defenses against runaway global warming. In this curtain-raiser episode, Will Everill — ...
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