* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Around the world, many Rotaract clubs are also involved with providing direct community service projects, for example, the Launchpad for youth from a group home in Valletta, Malta, which allows the boys to become independent, Habitat for Humanity in California, reaching out to help poor young children for " Children's Empowerment Week " in Birmingham, Alabama, and America's Second Harvest in Kansas, amongst many other good works.

# Virtual world / city: LucasFilm's Habitat, Second Life, Millsberry, Red Light Center, IMVU

Singapore's expertise in successful new town design was internationally recognised when the Building and Social Housing Foundation ( BSHF ) of the United Nations awarded the World Habitat Award to Tampines New Town, which was selected as a representative of Singapore's new towns, on 5 October 1992.

* Habitat – Gormley's first permanent installation in the United States, in Anchorage, Alaska on the grounds of the Anchorage Museum, cost an estimated $ 560, 000.

Smurfit-Stone works with several other organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Project Learning Tree, American Red Cross, United Way, March of Dimes, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

The former, currently a part of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, aims to " assist States and other stakeholders with the implementation of their commitments in the Habitat Agenda ".

In the United States of America, a Habitat Conservation Plan ( HCP ) is often developed to conserve the environment in which a specific species inhabits.

Aflac employees are formally involved in an array of charitable organizations such as Habitat for Humanity International, the Easter Seals, and the United Way.

And ABS has formed a partnership with Habitat for Humanity to give a free Bible to each of its new homeowners in the United States.

Findhorn Ecovillage has been awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements ( HABITAT ), and regularly holds seminars of ' CIFAL Findhorn ', a United Nations Institute for Training and Research ( UNITAR ), affiliated training centre for Northern Europe.

The Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage Project has received Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements ( Habitat ).

In the United States, these local offices are called Habitat affiliates ; outside the United States, Habitat operations are managed by national offices.

In some locations outside the United States, Habitat for Humanity charges interest to protect against inflation.

Habitat homeowners in the United States pay no interest on their no-profit mortgages.

Some Habitat for Humanity organizations outside the United States adjust the no-profit loans to compensate for the inflation rate in their area, with the goal that " the repayments from one house should ideally build another house of the same design.

Collegiate Challenge participants travel to host sites throughout the United States and spend one week working in partnership with the local Habitat affiliate, the local community, and partner families to help eliminate poverty housing in the area.

Youth United is a Habitat for Humanity program run by youth and for youth ages 5 to 25.

Youth United mobilizes young people to sponsor and build a house with their local Habitat affiliate

During Home Builders Blitz 2008, more than 1, 000 building industry professionals in 110 Habitat for Humanity affiliates built 263 new homes across the United States.

The event is held across the United States and highlights a different Habitat affiliate each year.

" To address this, many Habitat affiliates in the United States partner only with families that fall below the government-set " poverty line " for their area.

In the United States, major national thrift shop operators include Arc Thrift Stores, Goodwill Industries, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Stores, ReStore ( see Habitat for Humanity International ), Deseret Industries ( in the western U. S .), and Value Village ( see Savers ).

As a proof of it the town got the prize World Habitat Award of the United Nations in 2007.

The Building and Social Housing Foundation ( BSHF ) of the United Nations awarded the World Habitat Award to Tampines, which was selected as a representative of Singapore's new towns, on 5 October 1992.

Activities include Wokai, Community Service, National Honor Society, International Thespian Society, National Art Honor Society, Model United Nations ( MUN ), Quiz Bowl, National History Bee and Bowl, Make A Child Smile, Forensics, Amnesty International, Roots and Shoots, Habitat for Humanity, Documentary Film Making, cooking, jewelry making, a student-run lacrosse activity, music ensembles, and many more.

He has twice led a delegation of Pakistan to the United Nations General Assembly and also at several other international forums, such as a Common Wealth election observer in Kenya, delegation to SAARC and the Cancun Summit on Natural Habitat.

ERI is a United Nations NGO affiliate for ECOSOC, UN Habitat, UNCSD, and UN Finance and Development.

In 1996, Dürr was made a member of the UN Secretary General's international advisory group for the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul.

* U. N. Conference of Human Settlements, Habitat II, International Advisory Council, New York, 1996 ;

She served on the Partnership Council of Habitat for Humanity, was the first national Ambassador for the American Stroke Association's " Power to End Stroke " Campaign, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a sponsor of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Human Rights Campaign, and held a lifetime membership in the NAACP.

In 1976, Fuller was a key participant at UN Habitat I, the first UN forum on human settlements.

He also served on the Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors, and served on the board of Atlanta-based software maker EzGov Inc. Kemp also served on the Board of Directors of Election. com, which was the private company that ran the world's first election on the internet ( won by Al Gore ), the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary.

In multiplayer online games, a MUSH ( a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed ) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.

In 1976, Mead was a key participant at UN Habitat I, the first UN forum on human settlements.

The Habitat Unit and the Earth Return Vehicle on Mars.

Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).

The Habitat Unit would not be launched until the automated factory aboard the ERV had signaled the successful production of chemicals required for operation on the planet and the return trip to Earth.

Once on Mars, the crew would spend 18 months on the surface, carrying out a range of scientific research, aided by a small rover vehicle carried aboard their Mars Habitat Unit, and powered by the methane produced by the Earth Return Vehicle.

The Mars Habitat Unit would also include a small pressurized rover that is stored in the lower deck area and assembled on the surface of Mars.

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

* In the Futurama episode " The Luck of the Fryrish ", a short clip shows the first man on Mars with a spacecraft that resembles the Mars Habitat Unit.

Foster received the The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2007 to honor his contributions to the advancement of tall buildings.

* Earliest day on which World Habitat Day can fall, while October 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Monday of October.

** Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat

* May 11 – Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.

April 1967 aerial view of Île Sainte-Hélène on the left and Île Notre-Dame on the right, with most of the Expo 67 site in view, except Habitat 67 and the rest of the pavilions on la Cité du Havre.

* 2009 The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award – Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat