UCSC Sustainability Glossary and Acronym Break Down

ART: Action Research Team, the 5-unit section of ESLP

CRAFT: Creative Re-thinking and Facilitating Tools, 2-unit section of ESLP

CSAC: Chancellor’s Sustainability Action Council (now CSS)

CSC: Campus Sustainability Council

CSS: Campus Sustainability Subcommittee

CSSC: California Student Sustainability Coalition

CSVA: Campus Sustainability Vision Alliance (defunct)

CUIP: Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program

ESLP: Education for Sustainable Living Program, a 2 unit lecture series and 5 unit class

FSWG: Food Systems Working Group

GB: Green Building (see UCBG)

GBWG: Green Building Working Group

NVC: Non-Violent Communication

SEC: Student Environmental Center, bottom-up student organization
dedicated to bridging the gap between students and the university to
create tangible change toward environmental consciousness

SOS: Students for Organic Solutions, campaign of the SEC that promotes
use of organic foods and therefore a sustainable food system on campus

Sustainability- "Meeting our own needs of the present, without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,
particularly with regard to use and waste of natural resources.
Sustainable practices support ecological, human, and economic health
and vitality. Sustainability presumes that resources are finite, and
should be used conservatively and wisely with a view to long-term
priorities and consequences of the ways in which resources are used."
--UC Regents

UCBG!: UC Build Green!

UCOP: University of California Office of the President

World Cafe:

WP: Waste Prevention

WR: Waste Reduction (now Waste Prevention)