{"id":1885,"date":"2025-10-15T06:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:31:36","slug":"pittsburgh-magazine-so-what-is-the-rachel-carson-ecovillage-heres-how-to-tour-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Magazine: So, What is the Rachel Carson EcoVillage? Here\u2019s How to Tour It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pittsburghmagazine.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/n\/j\/rendering-uphill-3-231230.jpg?w=500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After years in the making,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rachelcarsonecovillage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Rachel Carson EcoVillage at Providence Heights<\/a>&nbsp;in McCandless is now under construction \u2014 and the public is being welcomed to check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A multi-generational cohousing neighborhood, the sustainable community is southwestern Pennsylvania\u2019s first ecovillage. Scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2026, the village \u2014 named after famed environmentalist Rachel Carson \u2014 consists of 35 private units ranging from studios to four-bedroom homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to its developers, the entire community is designed to the highest standards of energy conservation, durability and air quality \u2014 creating an 80% savings in energy usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghmagazine.com\/so-what-is-the-rachel-carson-ecovillage-heres-how-to-tour-it\/\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years in the making,&nbsp;the Rachel Carson EcoVillage at Providence Heights&nbsp;in McCandless is now under construction \u2014 and the public is being welcomed to check it out. A multi-generational cohousing neighborhood, the sustainable community is southwestern Pennsylvania\u2019s first ecovillage. Scheduled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe6P8V-up","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}