{"podcast":{"title":"Sustainability Defined","slug":"sustainability-defined-323213","podcast_index_feed_id":323213,"rss_url":"https://sustainabilitydefined.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.sustainabilitydefined.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/8/b/0/b8b01de903286df6/sd_logo_lauren.jpg","author":"Nethra Rajendran & Cecilia Rios","episode_count":100,"summary":"Sustainability Defined is the podcast that defines sustainability, one concept (and bad joke) at a time. Hosts Scott Breen and Jay Siegel explore a new topic each episode with the help of an expert in the field. Each concept falls into one of seven sectors -- Energy, Cities, Natural Environment, Transportation, Business, Policy, and Social -- and is visually represented in a Sustainability Tree found at www.sustainabilitydefined.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T00:20:06.640257+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sustainability-defined-323213"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 96: Hot Commodities: Bananas (ft. Equifruit)","slug":"ep-96-hot-commodities-bananas-ft-equifruit","published_at":"2026-02-13T14:44:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sustainability-defined-323213/ep-96-hot-commodities-bananas-ft-equifruit","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sustainability-defined-323213","url":"https://sustainabilitydefined.libsyn.com/ep-96-hot-commodities-bananas-ft-equifruit","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sustainabilitydefined/Bananas_Episode.mp3?dest-id=374552","summary":"Terrorism, corporate pay-offs, open-fire raids, rebranding and scandal....yes, we are talking about bananas. In this episode of our Hot Commodities series, we're peeling back the layers on the world's most popular fruit to reveal a history of corporate empires, political coups, and systematic exploitation that shaped entire nations. From the United Fruit Company's control over \"banana republics\" to Chiquita's 2007 guilty plea for funding Colombian paramilitaries, we trace how your 60-cent banana became so cheap and who paid the real price . We'll also explore the environmental impacts and supply chain of this fruit and why monoculture farming puts our entire global banana supply at risk. Join us as we follow bananas from tropical plantations through ripening rooms to your grocery store, uncovering the complex supply chain logistics that keep shelves stocked year-round. Fear not!! We also we sit down with Jennie Coleman, the President of Equifruit, to learn how ethical sourcing and Fair Trade practices are working to transform this troubled industry and provide a future for a new wave of banana agriculture. This episode is bananas!! literally and figuratively.","meta_description":"Terrorism, corporate pay-offs, open-fire raids, rebranding and scandal....yes, we are talking about bananas. In this episode of our Hot Commodities series…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3969,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sustainability-defined-323213/episodes/ep-96-hot-commodities-bananas-ft-equifruit/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sustainability-defined-323213/ep-96-hot-commodities-bananas-ft-equifruit.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}