WIP: episode about environment management

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If this pull request addresses an open issue on the repository, please add 'Closes #NN' below, where NN is the issue number.

When completed, this will address #1049 by adding a new (hopefully fairly short) episode about virtual environments, why they are important, and the basics of how to work with them.

Please briefly summarise the changes made in the pull request, and the reason(s) for making these changes.

Review my comment on the aforementioned issue for an outline of what I am aiming for.

So far, I have only the learning objectives and a couple of exercises to assess them. More to come next week (I hope!)

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This episode has become necessary since we adjusted our setup/install instructions to use miniforge instead of Anaconda.

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