Destiny Kinal has been a political creature since being radicalized by her marriage at 19 into the Handelman family. She attended the march for peace and civil rights in Washington DC with the Handelmans in August of 1963, hearing Martin Luther King Jr's I Have a Dream speech as well as a fiery oration by Malcolm X in a Baptist church that night.

There followed leadership in graduate school at Indiana University in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty as an organizer, and in SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in programs to educate the population on the War in VietNam.

Destiny and her daugher Gilian Handelman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1967, after spending the summer at Ivan Ilych's Center for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernevaca Mexico. In San Francisco, she worked in the garment industry with Alvin Duskin and fell in with the anarchistic group The Diggers in Haight Ashbury.

After her marriage to Charles Gould, an activist in the Digger community, Destiny served as a political reporter during the Zero Growth years in Aspen Colorado in the 1970's.

Kinal's commitment to learn about the unholy alliance between the food industry and the chemical industries led her to work with Alberto Culver (Chicago) and Welch Foods (Westfield NY.) Years in New York City followed, during which Kinal worked at the leading edge of targeted marketing, introducing the consuming preferences and motivations of newer lifestyle born during and after WW II to Fortune 500 consumer goods companies, now known as multinationals.

Humanifestos I and II, reproduced here, form part of a body of work that grew out of her political experiences.

Years in community revitalization in the Penn-York Valley, working on the watershed organization Carantouan Greenway on the Susquehanna River that Kinal founded and directed, years working in the foundation/funder world, have all contributed to Kinal's political sensibilities, which compel her to look for common threads of values and understanding in diverse populations.

A lifelong commitment to bioregionalism, to the core understanding that one's love of place, centered on the home watershed, its seasons and all the creatures and plants that define one's home uniquely, has defined Kinal's politics finally, more than any other philosophy or practice.

In 2010, KInal-with a loose confederacy of friends who have been defining and practicing bioregionalism for the past forty years--founded the Reinhabitory Institute and its imprint sitio tiempo press.

The two organizations intend to collaborate with fellow organizations to produce programs, events, projects and publications.