The phrase "ripe environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation or setting that is ideal for something to happen or be achieved. For example, you could say, "We have created a ripe environment for success in our new office."
"It's a ripe environment for hackers and criminals".
QUESTION FROM WILLIAM: You write in Outliers about how the specific time period of the 60s and 70s made for a ripe environment to produce computer geniuses like Bill Joy and Bill Gates.
Author Andrew Schartmann takes us through the various external factors (e.g., advances in technology, Nintendo's marketing tactics) that coalesced into a ripe environment in which Kondo's musical experiments could thrive.
"The social night-life scene is significant, so we already had a ripe environment that we were looking to augment," said Tony Cortizas, vice president for global brand strategy of Meliá, which is based in Palma de Mallorca.
Individual sessions have covered the possibility of terror cells forming in prisons, considered a ripe environment with little concrete activity, and countering the vision of extremists who use Islam to convince the young that suicide bombings are the righteous path to a better world.
Surely, she had done something that created a ripe environment for her head to explode.
Manhattan was at the center of a web of tidal estuaries a ripe marine environment, a major stop on the eastern flyway for migrating birds.
The company has been testing their software with Make Magazine for the past year and they point to Autodesk's acquisition of Instructables as an example of how ripe this environment is for disruption.
All the strategy whiteboarding in the world won't be able to predict the answer to this question, and that, combined with the ripe funding environment for such businesses, is a very good thing for consumers, for those looking for jobs, and the entrepreneurs who may just uncover the next great mobile on-demand service.
Arita believes that Japan has moved "two or three steps to the right" in recent history, creating an environment ripe for such groups to grow.
"All of this makes the overall environment ripe for an explosion at any second".
