About Quoddy Learning Centre & Nature Park and Waweig Gathering Place

St. Croix Estuary Project Inc. (SCEP) is an independent, community, non-profit charity that is one of the founding members of Environment Canada's Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP). Incorporated in 1992, the group delivers many environmental, educational, and outreach programs and owns and operates the Quoddy Learning Centre and Marine Park located on a 350 acre peninsula in the St. Croix Estuary and Camp Waweig located on 40 acres on the Waweig Estuary.

No longer just a "project", the organization's non-profit and charitable activities will soon be administered under the name "Quoddy Futures Foundation". The "Quoddy Learning Centre & Nature Park" and the "Waweig Gathering Place" will be the primary venues for two important initiatives that will have significant positive impacts on the region.

Located at Todd's Point, the Quoddy Learning Centre is now the hub of all activities and incorporates our offices, outreach library and resource centre, a public display and meeting area and the "Fab Lab"; a place where "hands-on" teaching, research, and learning activities will take place. Global warming, alternate energy, sustainable sewage treatment, fisheries restoration, pollution and health, coastal land development, developing an eco-economy - all of these issues and more will be topics for programs and displays, as well as staff and associate initiatives. This will be the place where people can acquire the information and learn the practical skills that will be required to face the challenging future that faces us all.

The Quoddy Learning Centre and Marine Park has been designed to attract people to a place that will have an interesting, practical and applied purpose in a proactive learning environment. SCEP intends to take the model to other communities with connections back to the Quoddy Learning Centre. This will result, we think, in new and unique opportunities that will build on a targeted market that is identifiable, within reach, and interested. While SCEP is a non-profit organization, we will be fostering sustainable businesses within an "incubator" style structure.

In addition to environmental and historical displays, the Quoddy Learning Centre will feature functional solar, wind, personal biomass, geothermal power and alternate sewage disposal methods. Displays and programs will inform visitors about how they can accomplish shifts in their lifestyle that will benefit the environment and meet their personal energy and living needs.