When I chose the term “eco-cinema” for my essay, “Toward an Eco-cinema”, published in the Summer 2004 issue of ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment), I don’t believe I meant to invent a term. “Eco” seemed everywhere in the early 2000s; and it is in the nature of language to respond to the interweaving of cultural developments. “Eco-cinema” seemed a good way of referencing the intersection of the continuing evolution of cinema with a cultures-wide recognition that many ecosystems on our planet, and the planet itself, are in a process of transition, if not entropy.