diff --git a/docs/projects/environment.qmd b/docs/projects/environment.qmd
index 1bceb7625..ecdcfad9f 100644
--- a/docs/projects/environment.qmd
+++ b/docs/projects/environment.qmd
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Environment Variables"
 
 ## Overview
 
-You may have one more more environment variables that you want to make sure are set whenever you render your project. For example, you might be using environment variables to:
+You may have one more environment variables that you want to make sure are set whenever you render your project. For example, you might be using environment variables to:
 
 1.  Provide the URL of a server to download data from.
 2.  Set the address of a proxy server (e.g. `HTTP_PROXY`).
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ PYTHONINSPECT=1
 PYTHONDEVMODE=1
 ```
 
-Note that `_environment.local` is not intended to be checked in to version control. Rather, it's designed for values that you want active only on your system. To facilitate this, Quarto automatically adds the following to your project `.gitignore` file:
+Note that `_environment.local` is not intended to be checked in to version control. Rather, it's designed for values that you want to activate only on your system. To facilitate this, Quarto automatically adds the following to your project `.gitignore` file:
 
 ``` {.ini filename=".gitignore"}
 /_*.local