This selection of articles from the first few years of the Eco-thinking journal, is a compendium that describes research with/in environmental learning as a diverse and growing field of inquiry, respondent to a variety of international program developments and contexts. Key to this exercise is that we as educators and researchers are critically informed by a broad range of perspectives and paradigms in our work. With this in mind this first (eclectic) volume in the life of the Eco-thinking journal begins to describe the range of possibilities that exist around our varied and expanding contexts for research in environmental learning.