Another advantage of a virtual environment is ease of backing up whole systems and restoring them as needed.
"It was working, but it got caught in this environment of cutting back," said Mr. Lange, of the Edward Lowe Foundation, which is pushing the gardening concept and helping states put it into effect.
"Training class was my salvation from lunatic bosses and the corporate environment of who's back-stabbing whom," she said.
It was actually Zhou Shengxian, the environment minister of China, backed by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who added "We must not any longer sacrifice the environment for the sake of...unsustainable growth".
Moreover, as they used to be engaged in agricultural activities, a working environment of "facing the loess and backing the sky" has put women in poor shape.
New habits, on the other hand, require focus, commitment, energy, a redesign of one's environment and the backing of social support.
In this world, what matters most is the context for consumption: the sit-back environment of TV, the lean-forward nature of desktop or the mobility of the smartphone.
Unless, that is, they are Argentine ants in Europe.It has been known for some time that this species, although normally aggressive in its native habitat, has relaxed into placid mutual toleration in the laid-back environment of the Mediterranean.
Christian Parenti, a professor at New York University who researches the history of government regulation of the environment, pushed back against the idea that the Oregon occupiers lie somewhere on the fringes of the Republican party.
Having spent the summer on Fire Island rewriting the screenplay, she said she was happy to be "back in an environment of comedy snobbery," because "it's better for you".
