iFixit casts doubt on EPEAT Gold over Retina MacBook

In a caustically-worded piece, the CEO of iFixit has decried both the EPEAT environmental certification program and Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro in particular, claiming that the former’s Gold certification of the latter constitutes “greenwashing,” or a form of spin in which deceptive marketing is used to portray a product as environmentally friendly. He claims that EPEAT bent the definitions of its own rules in order to grant Gold status to Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, as well as several other “ultrabook” class devices from other makers. The result, he contends, is that the E…