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São Paulo (; Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w̃ ˈpawlu] (listen)) is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The municipality is also the Earth's 11th largest city proper by population. The city is the capital of the surrounding state of São Paulo, one of the most populous and wealthiest states in Brazil. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The name of the city honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas located around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Sorocaba and the Paraíba Valley) created the São Paulo Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange. Paulista Avenue is the economic core of São Paulo. The city has the 11th largest GDP in the world, representing alone 10.7% of all Brazilian GDP and 36% of the production of goods and services in the state of São Paulo, being home to 63% of established multinationals in Brazil, and has been responsible for 28% of the national scientific production in 2005. With a GDP of US$477 billion, the São Paulo city alone would have ranked 26th globally compared with countries by 2017 estimates.The metropolis is also home to several of the tallest skyscrapers in Brazil, including the Mirante do Vale, Edifício Itália, Banespa, North Tower and many others. The city has cultural, economic and political influence both nationally and internationally. It is home to monuments, parks and museums such as the Latin American Memorial, the Ibirapuera Park, Museum of Ipiranga, São Paulo Museum of Art, and the Museum of the Portuguese Language. The city holds events like the São Paulo Jazz Festival, São Paulo Art Biennial, the Brazilian Grand Prix, São Paulo Fashion Week and the ATP Brasil Open. The São Paulo Gay Pride Parade rivals the New York City Pride March as the largest gay pride parade in the world. It is headquarters of the Brazilian television networks Band, Gazeta, and RecordTV.
São Paulo is a cosmopolitan, melting pot city, home to the largest Arab, Italian, and Japanese diasporas, with examples including ethnic neighborhoods of Mercado, Bixiga, and Liberdade respectively. São Paulo is also home to the largest Jewish population in Brazil, with about 75,000 Jews. In 2016, inhabitants of the city were native to over 200 different countries. People from the city are known as paulistanos, while paulistas designates anyone from the state, including the paulistanos. The city's Latin motto, which it has shared with the battleship and the aircraft carrier named after it, is Non ducor, duco, which translates as I am not led, I lead. The city, which is also colloquially known as Sampa or Terra da Garoa (Land of Drizzle), is known for its unreliable weather, the size of its helicopter fleet, its architecture, gastronomy, severe traffic congestion and skyscrapers. São Paulo was one of the host cities of the 1950 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, the city hosted the IV Pan American Games and the São Paulo Indy 300.
Novos Arranjos Econômicos-Tecnológicos: Relatos com Renato Dagnino, Gabriel Menezes e Júlio Maestri
Palestra “Novos Arranjos Econômicos-Tecnológicos: Relatos” com Renato Dagnino, Gabriel Menezes e Júlio Maestri realizada durante o seminário “Diálogos sobre os Desafios Socioambientais Contemporâneos”, em junho de 2017 no Sesc Vila Mariana. Com mediação de Amália Safatle.
Foram dois dias de debates sobre a atual crise socioambiental e experiências inspiradoras que apontam caminhos para o seu enfrentamento.
O seminário foi uma parceria entre o Sesc São Paulo e o Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE/USP) e reuniu acadêmicos, profissionais e ativistas para debater o tema.
Convidados: Ailton Krenak, Amália Safatle, Cristina Adams, Enrique Leff (MEX), Ladislau Dowbor, Luiz Antônio Ferraro Jr., Marcos Sorrentino, Pedro Jacobi, Renato Dagnino, Renato Janine Ribeiro, Ricardo Abramovay, Sidnei Raimundo.
Renato Dagnino
Professor titular das áreas de Estudos Sociais de Ciência e Tecnologia e de Política Científica e Tecnológica (Unicamp) e professor visitante em várias universidades latino-americanas. Livros em destaque: Neutralidade de Ciência e Determinismo Tecnológico; Tecnologia Social: contribuições conceituais e metodológicas; Gestão Estratégica Pública.
Júlio Maestri
Centro de Estudos e Promoção da Agricultura de Grupo (Cepagro). Coordenador urbano do Cepagro, instituição fundada por pequenos agricultores e técnicos interessados na formação de redes produtivas locais e panir das propriedades rurais familiares. Atua no campo de Agroecologia, agindo de forma participativa junto às comunidades rurais e urbanas e em projetos socioembientais, como “A Revolução dos Beldinhos de agricultura urbana e gestão comunitária de resíduos orgânicos.
Gabriel Menezes
Instituto Auá. Presidente do Instituto onde atua como empreendedor social e desenvolve a Agência de Ecomercado, o Empório Mata Atlântica e a Rota do Cambuci. O Instituto Auá tem como objetivo apoiar diferentes empreendimentos socioambientais, voltados à transformação de realidades locais, com foco no Cinturão Verde, atuando com base num modelo organizacional descentralizado e integrado e uma rede de parceiros.
Amália Safatle (mediadora)
Fundadora de Revista Página 22. Graduada em Jornalismo pela Escola de Comunicações e Artes (USP). Trabalhou na revista Carta Capital, na Terra Magazine e no jornal Gazeta Mercantil e Associação Brasileira dos Analistas do Mercado de Capitais (Apimec). Premiações: Instituto Internacional de Pesquisa e Responsabilidade Socioambiental Chico Mendes, Instituto Ethos, BM&FBovespa, Conservação Internacional e Abrelpe.
• 01:02 Início da fala de Renato Dagnino
• 16:37 Início da fala de Júlio Maestri
• 36:36 Início da fala de Gabriel Menezes