… We covered issues like global climate change and doing local community litter clean ups.  Buddha Gaia was the social action arm of the Buddhist Faith Fellowship of Connecticut located in Middletown. As time went on, new social action interests came to a fore, and we shifted our direction to ending craving and addiction. So, we renamed and reorganized ourselves as the 12 Buddhists, Social and Environmental Group in late 2008. The “Social and Environmental” part of our name was a throw back to th …