we've held thirteen climate crisis awareness and
action weeks so far, and we've had an extraordinary out...
11,000+ attendees! thank you for tUrning
with us..we welcome you to stay
connected, keep learning,
and join the climate
movement
in your
area.
Join us: April 20-25, 2026
for
full schedule for next tUrn week will be announced by the end of January.
what is
tUrn is an invitation
to make a u-turn away from participating
in extractive economies & life-harming habits, to
enter a vulnerable space where conversations about the multi-variable
climate crises we face can lead us to understand how we each might play a
role in drawing down global warming justly, and in so doing, in
drawing down human rights violations, racism, and other
oppressions that need to be stopped.
tUrn is an invitation
to serve and honor all of humanity and
nature, by standing and working in solidarity with all of
humanity and nature, and to commit to fashioning a
more just, kind, free, and beautiful
world together.
tUrn is an invitation
to imprint causalities and intersections
into our conscious awareness, to see connections between racial
and climate injustices, between lack of freedom of expression and oppression,
between misinformation/disinformation and wrongly-focused policies and laws,
and to consider greed and business as usual as an existential threat, that when
left unchecked will assure global warming, ecological destabilization, wildlife
extinction, pollution, and toxicity—in the name of financial profit, but
at the greatest expense not on the spreadsheets: at the cost
of a sane, healthy, habitable, happy world.
The cost of the business as usual plan is
too high to pretend everything's ok.
We need to be talking
about the climate
crisis.
pollution
is a form of continuing colonialism.
toxicity that is intolerable to wiser beings
is shoveled into our bodies as cash registers overflow.
toxicity flows through our shared land, air, water, animals
and ourselves. it exists in relationships based on domination,
but we can detox through transformative experiences,
eliminate injustice and achieve peace between,
among, and within all living creatures.
tUrn is an invitation
to make the much-needed U turn
toward science-and wisdom tradition-based,
just, bold, climate actions and solutions,
while discovering the community
that will help us get there.
tUrn is an invitation
for the "U" (university) and
for "U" (all of you...aka us) that is designed
to enliven discourse and express the meaning of the climate crisis,
spotlighting the communicators, the storytellers, the researchers, and the
community leaders, who share ideas—both cutting edge and ancient—that
inspire profound dialogue and move everyone forward on their
climate crisis awareness and action
journey.
tUrn is an invitation
to create the time and space
and social permission to face the dramatic
and the tragic, the uplifting, and the hopeful, to dive into and swim
through scientific facts, policies, laws, stories of progress and pitfalls,
of roadblocks and timidity, and set our fears aside so we can
lean in to the climate crisis, together, because
it is time, and we must.
tUrn is an invitation
to compost climate anxiety
into action.
There simply is no other choice
but to make the world better, one idea, one
behavior, one disruption of disinformation, one move,
one conversation, one policy, one action, one gathering,
one scientific experiment, one discovery, one choice,
one law, one prayer, one song, one tree,
one meal choice, one vote, and
one dance at a time.
tUrn is intertwined with plants, plans, and place
it is a critical, intercultural, interdisciplinary, intergenerational,
interfaith, international investigation of what it
means to understand all facets of
the climate crisis and
the related issues
of social, cultural, ecological, environmental, pollution,
food, water, soil and ocean degradation
and intersections with human rights
taken together
and
what protective measures we can take to
mitigate, slow, minimize, and in some
cases, reverse the harms
being caused.
whose is it?
offers an invitation for everyone,
from artists to astrophysicists, from social scientists to spiritual leaders,
from economists to ecologists, from lawyers to lab workers,
to address our shared climate crisis during
and discover what they can do
to be a part of the
solutions.
what are the 3 facets of
Partners are the people who volunteer to make tUrn work, from the
headliner presenters, to the student tUrn intern crew, to the
community organizations who take part in the festivals
and live events of each tUrn week.
who is
tUrn is for people who
understand that only together,
with time and space to learn,contemplate,
converse, and activate new behaviors and actions,
can we make a u-turn for the planet and future generations.
who is in charge of
directed by founder kristin kusanovich
and enacted by a large, student crew, in partnership with dozens
of professionals and organizations each tUrn week, we have a clear ethos:
to honors the voices and calls for support of our real teachers in the climate crisis, the most
vulnerable, frontline communities, and prioritize the views and teachings of people
who, for the most part, have not caused the climate crisis.
We value indigenous perspectives,
child/youth activists, immigrants/refugees and women/people of color
as knowledge bearers in this fight of all fights. We need specialists, but specialists
have not solved the climate crisis yet. We call all non-climate change specialists
to the stage to bring their giftsbe creative, to be innovative, to facilitate.
where does
tUrn is centered at Santa Clara University and various other sites around the world.
It takes place on zoom and is free and open to the public. Certain events are on-campus for faculty, staff, students and guests.
