Environment

In general, environment refers to the surroundings of an object. Some great ways to help your environment is to not use plastic bags, or even to BYOB, or bring your own bags! Then the amount of plastic being used in the world will shrink until the demand for plastic is minimal. Environment may refer to:

• The natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth
• Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
• Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
• Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
• Environmental art
• Environmental determinism
• Environmental policy
• Environmental psychology
• Environmental quality
• Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
• Environments (series) A series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
• Knowledge environment
• Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact

In computing:

• Desktop environment, in computing, the graphical user interface to the computer
• Environment variable, the set of environments defined in a process
• Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
• Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running

See also

• Ambient (disambiguation)
• Category:Environment, for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment
• Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general
• Environmental movement
• Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment
• List of environmental issues
• Natural landscape
• All pages with titles beginning with Environment