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It doesn't have to be that difficult to live in an eco-friendly way. Often a big impact comes with only little changes. You don't have to think about how to start - just discover a new use for something you might ordinarily toss. You can also try to reduce the amount of garbage you produce, along with trying to recycle more. Let us look at several ways in which you can try to live in a more eco-friendly way. See to it that you maintain your furnace in efficient working order, because its running costs are so high. Of all the energy used in a family, heating makes up the bulk, around 60%. Operating efficiency will be enhanced by replacing the filter on a two-monthly cycle. Reusable filters, which can be washed again and again, may in reality be the best way to go. In the long run, it will cost you less money, though you will pay more for the filters initially, but they last a long time. A meaningful gain of 50% in efficiency can be achieved by correctly caring for your furnace, in just a few minutes. In addition to proper care to ascertain efficiency, adjusting the temperature with a programmable thermostat also brings down energy usage. Avoid wasting energy when no one's at home, or everybody is asleep. It adversely affects both the environment and your savings negatively. You will save power, during the nights, or when nobody is home, by having set the thermostat several degrees cooler in winter nights, or higher in summer. When you get up in the morning, or return back home, it can be already programmed to where you would like it. Yet another power waster is your hot water heating system, and one solution is to wrap it in a fiberglass blanket. You can go to your local hardware store to purchase the blanket, which will help keep the heat where it needs to be, in the tank of the heater. This is something you can do on your own, with great ease, and the electricity you save will recoup the cost of the blanket within a year. Buy yourself one of the new tankless water heaters when next your heater needs replacing. Water is only heated on demand, instead of keeping a full tank filled with hot water. You use less energy this way, which not simply lowers the cost of heating your water, but also is advantageous for the environment. Living green doesn't require an all or nothing approach, and a few or even all of the above tips may look like an imposition to you. Just make the changes you can make, or are ready to make, and get moving now.