diff --git a/direnvrc b/direnvrc
index 96a91e8..aa028e7 100644
--- a/direnvrc
+++ b/direnvrc
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ __ren_init_project() {
 # we explicitly don't want any dirs to be in the project dir, put them all
 #  in .ren, so they don't clutter everything up
 __ren_init_prj_spec() {
-  export PRJ_ROOT=${PRJ_ROOT:="${REN_STATE}"}
+  export PRJ_ROOT=${PRJ_ROOT:="${REN_ROOT}"}
 
   export PRJ_CONFIG_HOME=${PRJ_CONFIG_HOME:="${REN_STATE}/config"}
   mkdir -p "${PRJ_CONFIG_HOME}"